When I bought my Acer PC for the first time last summer, it came with a mechanical hard drive. I had a 2.5 SATA III HD on my old computer so I knew I could speed it up. It had an M.2 slot for NVMe. And really all I had to do was install it, I messed around with the bios settings. It was an educational experience. Any SSD is way ahead of a mechanical drive. Surprisingly, these NVMes are slightly cheaper than 2.5-inch SSDs and, according to Crystal Disk, much faster.
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2 TB External HDD Western Digital WD Elements Portable (WDBU), USB 3.0, black
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