Acer A315-21-616E replace Hard disk to SSD

The Acer A315-21-616E is a entry level laptop with AMD CPU. It is a very fit for budgetable user.

To enhance the user experience, you will able to replace the 1000GB HDD to be a SSD.

The Original Seagate 1000GB HDD (7mm)

I replace it by a Samsung SSD 850 EVO

The user experience is much better after replace the HDD.

There are some additional information about the CPU and also the laptop:

AMD CPU Security

The AMD Secure Processor.

This component, formerly known as AMD PSP (Platform Security Processor), is a chip-on-chip security system, similar to Intel's much-hated Management Engine (ME).

Just like Intel ME, the AMD Secure Processor is an integrated coprocessor that sits next to the real AMD64 x86 CPU cores and runs a separate operating system tasked with handling various security-related operations.

The 7 Gen CPU have AMD Secure Processor

There are some background about the laptop:

處理器:	AMD A6-9220
作業系統:	Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
顯示屏:	15.6吋
記憶體:	6GB (4+2) (Max 12GB) - Need to remove 2GB and install a 8GB DDR4
硬碟:	1000GB
顯示卡:	AMD Radeon R4 Graphics
硬碟類型:	HDD

https://www.acer.com/ac/en/CA/content/model/NX.GNVAA.005

Some information about the CPU:

Reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puma_(microarchitecture)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldozer_(microarchitecture)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_microprocessors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_accelerated_processing_unit_microprocessors

https://benchlife.info/amd-announce-7th-gen-apu-as-bristol-and-stoney-ridge-06012016/

https://benchlife.info/amd-pre-announcing-bristol-ridge-for-hp-envy-x360-04052016/

http://products.amd.com/en-us/search/APU/AMD-A-Series-Processors/AMD-A6-Series-APU-for-Laptops/7th-Gen-A6-9220-APU/234

http://products.amd.com/en-us/search/APU/AMD-A-Series-Processors/AMD-A9-Series-APU-for-Laptops/7th-Gen-A9-9410-APU/198

https://benchlife.info/amd-bristol-ridge-platform-will-continue-to-use-excavator-cpu-architecture-06122015/

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-s-Bristol-Ridge-and-Stoney-Ridge-Architecture.169746.0.html

https://www.techbang.com/posts/43829-computex-2016amd-7th-generation-of-apu-added-a12zen-to-get

https://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2013/12/AMD_Memory_Encryption_Whitepaper_v7-Public.pdf

https://developer.amd.com/amd-secure-memory-encryption-sme-amd-secure-encrypted-virtualization-sev/

http://www.amd.com/zh-tw/innovations/software-technologies/security

http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/security

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-apu-pro-bristol-ridge,32786.html

http://www.amd.com/system/files/2017-06/Trusting-in-the-CPU.pdf

https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution

https://benchlife.info/14nm-amd-ryzen-mobile-apu-with-zen-core-and-vega-gpu-10272017/

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11964/ryzen-mobile-is-launched-amd-apus-for-laptops-with-vega-and-updated-zen

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Zen

Acer A315-21-616E replace Hard disk to SSD