“Few questions 1. Is the SSD soldered or can it be changed to a larger capacity? 2. is the SSD NVMe or normal SATA SSD ? 3. Same with the HDD, can it be changed to a 2.5" SSD ? 4. Is memory changeable to a higher capacity or better speed ? Thanks”
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I hope this answers all your questions.. one there is 11 torx screws on the bottom cover to remove XI is in the middle of the board covered by a tiny rubber circle you will need a razor blade to get it out . 2 then you will need like a thick guitar pick I started where the SD card goes in and using my fingers and pop the clips off then you just go around with a plastic pry tool I recommend using something that like a kit for an iPhone that's what I used and just continue to go around the board until all the clips pop off , the bottom cover I mean. then you have access to everything the m. 2 again it's just one screw and it slides in like ram. The regular hard drive is not even screwed in it's just in a rubber groove case. and with the texture of the rubber against the plastic holds it in place so that's very easy to either removed if you just decide to upgrade to like a 1 terabyte m.2 or to do what I did and put the one terabyte and a 500 gig SSD and place of the 2tb spinning drive this is very easy to work on the tools you will need will be that and iPhone repair kit with the little guitar picks. I recommend a 1 terabyte Samsung Evo 860 I got mine for about 120 they run about 160 on Amazon now so wait for them to come down in price. You will need an m.2 external enclosure this will make it so you can clone your original m. 2 and not lose any of your programs that came with the software. before purchasing the M.2 enclosure decide if you're going to go nvme or just a SATA as they are completely different enclosures . SATA comes with it stock not pcie Nvme. I did try the nvme it gets very hot they say up to 75 degrees C I didn't even game and it got up to about a hundred and fifty-four degrees Fahrenheit so I took mine out and went with the one terabyte 860 Evo SATA. again make sure you wait for sales you shouldn't have to pay more than 135 for the one terabyte 860 Evo m. 2 and the fact that you can put that in RAID mode and basically doubles the speed of the m.2 . It's not soldered in . you can take out the M.2 to easily just one screw holds it in and the 2 terabyte hard drive can also be swapped for a solid state drive 2.5 inch or 7 mm I threw in a 500 gig Samsung 860 Evo so this way I have 1.5 TB pure solid state. I did a test with nvme Samsung 970 Evo but it did not reach its 3gb potential only about one and a half so I then swapped it for a 1tb Samsung 860 Evo put it on I think it's RAID mode . now the Samsung magician is saying that I'm getting 6000 megabytes read and 3000 megabytes right which I don't believe it's supposed to be about 550 / 530 . My boot up time is between 7 and 10 seconds. You can also advance the ram. What I mean by this is you only start out with I think 2900 MB of RAM and you have 16GB so you just right-click under this PC go to system properties then advanced then unclick the automatic box and then type in whatever you want I did eight gigs so it's 8 * 1024 and then most people times that by either 1.5 or 2 for the second box which is your virtual ram so you can even put 16 gigs in the first box and then 32 in the second box as. 32 gigs is only your virtual ram this will help a lot in gaming and video processing otherwise you don't need to do this just leave it as it comes stock as it's fast enough
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.1. No, it is not soldered. It's actually very easy to change. All you have to do is remove all the screws from the back (including the one in the very center under the sticker). 2. The SSD is M.2 2280, not M.2 NVMe. 3. It cannot be changed to a 2.5", it has to be in the M.2 form factor. 4. Yes, memory is changeable but one of the already installed memory sticks is soldered to the board. It's much harder to get to the RAM than the storage as the ram is on the opposite side of the motherboard, same as a lot of Asus laptops.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.No it's not soldering Yes it's easy to remove 10 torx screws at the bottom . Two is just held in by 1 Phillips screwdriver screw. The spinning drive is just held in by a rubber casing which is also easy to swap out you can also run either nvme or SATA which is what it comes with. I recommend staying away from the nvme as it gets up to 154 degrees Fahrenheit just regular browsing not even working hard. So I went to a 1 terabyte 860 Evo. to do the swap you will need several things one I recommend and iPhone repair kit that comes with plastic guitar picks and plastic pry tools to open the bottom. To you will definitely need an m. 2 enclosure this is so you can plug in the new m. 2 to the 3.0 USB and clone it without losing any of the programs. Before purchasing the nvme enclosure make sure whether you're going sata or pcie nvme as the enclosures are different. I enclosed a picture of it open so you can see the m. 2 is between the fans right under the black powder coated heat sink and then the regular hard drive is in the baby blue rubber casing you may need to unscrew they want four screws on the battery to just lift it so you can get your finger and pop that hard drive out Other than that you can just watch a YouTube video and it's a piece of cake oh I also recommend using a good cloning software program. I used macrium reflect it's 100% free and you can drag down one by one each partition so you do not lose the recovery partition. you have to decide also if you're going to do this on 1803 or upgrade to 1809 1st which is the latest version of Windows now. I did it at 1809 which worked out a lot better and then I also made a backup USB drive.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The M2 socket port is a combination SATA & NVMe type keyed as M and accepts SATA with B & M slots or NVMe keyed M. Size typically is not a limit as long as you're under 2TB. NVMe get a quite a bit hotter because of their higher performance. Own, tried, true and tested. I recommend to get some 2 mm thick Silicone CPU Thermal Pad Conductive Cooling Pads. This will transfer the heat over to the aluminum casing for better cooling and if it heats the casing up enough you can use it as a ironing pad...!
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