Hi sorry if this seems so trivial but I have to ask.
How much in average it cost to upgrade my hard drive to 1tb drive?
I probably will send it to lowyat anyway, i never done this so i may want to know the price to not get scammed.
Thank You in advance guys.

Laptop Acer Nitro AN515-54

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If SSD, about 200-300 bucks for NVME or SATA 2.5 inch. Easy peasy.

change new laptop better

Price of new 2.5" 1TB HDD is not worth it. Samsung 870 Evo 1TB SSD can be found around RM375 right now. Significantly faster than HDD.

thank you

I was thinking that but is my laptop already out of date?
this is another thing that i will ask if i should sell my laptop or trade in to upgrade since i dont know about these things at all, anyway thank you.

Can learn diy.
Get a SSD like Kingston + USB case
It comes with free aconis software to clone your existing hard disk.

okay thank you bro, will be prepared with this cost next time going to lowyat
yeah i prefer ssd faster

15 inch laptops usually have space for either M.2 NVME or 2.5 inch SATA drives.

Some like the Latitude 5490 can have 3 storage together. Mine has 256GB M.2 SATA 2242 as the boot drive, 1TB NVME M.2 for data storage and 1TB 2.5 inch SATA SSD (without the casing) for secondary storage (usually full of movies).

If your current usage can still use I dont see why not keep using it. Yours still can support to Win11.

Yours only goes up to PCIE Gen3 so can go with older drives like SX8200pro or P3Plus but do compare price difference with good value Gen4 drives like S70 blade or KC3000, if the pricing arent too much you might wanna consider these instead and they have a longer longevity if port it to a new system later on.

Adata S70 blade or Kingston KC3000. Which one better? KC3000 have better controller?

Top up a bit..

Msi spatium M470 with ddr4 dram

Both equally good. Depends on which reviewer S70 is better and sometimes its slightly worse in others. S70 controller is newer so its a bit more efficient. Just go whichever is cheaper.

easy, KC3000, solid specs

S70 Blade is using InnoGrit IG5236 controller, a controller that is known to die

I been using S70 so far no issues. And early days Phison E18 also known to have deathblow firmware.

EDIT: Actually E18 still has SSD killing firmware https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comme...rs_update_your/

Stay away from them.

This post has been edited by babylon52281: Jun 18 2025, 09:33 PM

Equip with ddr4 / dram

You need as least 2 tera for nowadays heavy use..

This post has been edited by adamtayy: Jun 19 2025, 08:47 AM