My mother board don't have a PCI-E SSD slot

[jackhicks1211]

Hi
I am new to this forum. I have a problem hopefully experts in this forum can fix it for me. I am using an Acer laptop and recently I purchased a new Hard drive that is PCI-E SSD. Now I am trying to install it in my pc but I cannot see any slot to install this in my laptop.

Please let me know if I will need any device or tool to install it in my laptop.

Thanks

 

[jackhicks1211]

I purchased my PCI-E SSD from this link. https://serverorbit.com/solid-state-drives-ssd/pci-e-ssd/. I also tried to contact them and they advised me to contact the laptop company.

 

[alex09]

Hi! If your Acer laptop doesn’t have an M.2 PCIe (NVMe) slot, that’s why the SSD won’t fit.

You have two options:

1. Use a PCIe NVMe to USB enclosure – lets you use the SSD externally.
   
   
2. Upgrade to a laptop or PC with an M.2 PCIe slot — systems with LGA 1700 motherboards support these drives natively.
   

Share your laptop model if you need help confirming compatibility.