Is there an available 2nd drive bay on Acer Aspire E 15? I want to add a HDD.

[peterc0987]

HardDrive bays in Aspire E 15 notebook

 

[digitaldoc]

Nope. This is why if you want to be able to mod it, you are better off with a desktop so you can have this type of flexibility.

 

[giantbucket]

best case - if it has a dvd drive, you can swap it out for a hdd caddy.

 

[digitaldoc]

http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/series/aspire-e

Good thought about the DVD to hard drive caddy, but in the link above, none of them come with an optical drive.

 

[peterc0987]

Nope. This is why if you want to be able to mod it, you are better off with a desktop so you can have this type of flexibility.

Thanks for the (bad) news. And you're correct about desktops offering almost infinite flexibility. But I have had an HP Pavilion that came with a 750GB drive. It had a spare HDD bay, though, and I was able to move the 750GB mechanical drive to the spare bay (became D: drive), and insert an SSD as primary drive (C: drive) for operating system and all programs/applications. I was hoping I might be able to tweak this new notebook likewise. Oh well...

 

[digitaldoc]

To add an SSD to a notebook, you need to swap out the HDD for the SSD, and then reinstall the OS. You can then get a case, and use the HDD as an external hard drive via USB.