The hard drive is fast and the 12gb of ram makes a huge difference

It wasn't BAD before, but now I could see using this as my main PC.So if you want a great low cost PC buy this Acer and upgrade the hard drive

As other reviewers have noted, it lags slightly when waking up from hibernation, possibly due to the hard drive.

Unfortunately, the first one of these machines apparently had a defective DVD/CD drive.

is integrated- CD drive is attached to the case

I would have to get a computer with SSD drives because I can't afford to lose a mechanical drive

7200rpm hard drive (slightly faster then the 5200 rpm variety)

Very little bloat wear loaded, hard drive nice and quiet and responsive

I like that they put two USB 3 ports on the front panel, so you can attach external hard drive or a memory stick to the front

Four smaller screws were needed to screw the SSD into the drive bay, but the original hard drive screws were too big for the SSD

I actually returned the one I ordered thinking the hard drive was going bad

If you ever get a solid state drive, you will want to connect it to the SATA 3 port.

12 GIG of memory and the 2 TB hard drive are great for under $500.00.

I hope SSD's get bigger and cheaper, because this will be my last regular hard drive

You had to load and boot up DOS every time you turned on the computer and it had zero hard drive--you saved everything to big giant floppy discs

I've had this PC for 5 months with very little use, the optical drive & hard drive are both defective !

For example, I've seen other workstations where the drive bays are in the way of installing a 7 inch card, which would be a problem for the GTX970.I also replaced the 3.5 inch hard drive with a 2.5 inch SSD and installed a clean copy of Windows 10 Home, which automatically re-used the Windows 10 Home key from the original hard drive's factory install

Hard drive crash

Only thing negative to some might be the hard drive noise is noticeable but doesn't bother me

Needed a larger hard drive and 12 GB of RAM

The first upgrade I plan on making is adding a 250 GB SSD hard drive for the operating system

A fast System, but hard drive is loud.

TB hard drive (7200RPM fast) is more than we need but a very good size for people who will be saving photos as well as documents

Nothing fancy - it has integrated graphics, regular spinning hard drive, 12 G RAM.One thing to note: it's NOT easily upgradable in any aspect:- power supply is 300 W only (too low to support upgrading to a good

While there are mounting holes to add another hard drive or 2.5" SSD, there is not an available SATA connection on the motherboard

Only thing is the motherboard on this Acer Aspire only has two SATA ports, so I had to unplug the DVD drive to plug in both the SSD and 2TB hard drive that came with the system

The 2TB hard drive gives a nice size of storage for videos and photos

UPDATE 12/2/17I was really getting frustrated about the boot time and general lag performing some basic tasks, so I upgraded the hard drive by adding an SSD as the main Windows drive

It would take two minutes to add another hard drive (such as a small SSD) or a graphics card

I am swapping in a $50 128GB SSD for the OS and using the 2TB hard drive to store images and junk instead

The hard drive is a bit noisy and even at

Hard drive crash

You get a two-terabyte hard drive.

I was pleased with the price for a computer with a 2TB Hard Drive and 12 GB DDR4 Memory.

12Gb memory and 2 TB hard drive are hard to find on sub $600 computer.

That's not due to the clock speed of the processor, it's all caused by the hard drive

In the answered questions someone says it's the hard drive.

The only things that it lacks in a dedicated graphics card, a proper set up to allow for two internal hard drives without having to unplug the disc drive, I could not register this at the Acer website because it did not recognize the model number et

By the way, there is plenty of space for a 2nd hard drive

The included 2TB hard drive is loud but performs ok.

A simple download and install of Classic Shell, and like magic all my old files appears on my old hard drive and my backup drive

I purchased it, swapped out my hard drives and GPU (GTX 970 reference) and was extremely happy with the performance

Hard drive has basic performance, which is fine in most cases but will be slow if you deal with either very large or numberous files.

You can hear the hard drive

The 2TB hard drive that came with the PC seemed pretty quick but I decided to add a Samsung SSD like I do with all my new computers.

It ships with a 2 TB hard drive, but it's not an SSD, so even at 7200 RPMs if you're used to a computer with an

The hard drive is fast and the 12gb of ram makes a huge difference

The 300W PSU was only plugged into 4 locations - the 24 pin mother board outlet, the 4 pin CPU outlet, the hard drive, and the DVD drive

Plus: great value, 2tb hard drive and 12 gb of ram are unusual at this price point

I'm more frustrated that they won't replace my PC, instead I have to find a box, wipe hard drive, ship to Texas, & wait several weeks before I get a repaired PC

The hard drive on this thing was so noisy we couldn't take it

12MB of memory and 2 TB of hard drive make this an excellent value

The hard drive sounds like a machine gun, the smallest task is using 99% of the disk usage

2 TB of hard drive space should be enough for you

Performance has been quite surprising, considering it is on a standard hard drive

There is a SATA 3 port being used for the hard drive and a SATA 2 port being used for the DVD-RW

It has a nice big 7200 RPM hard drive, and a decent amount of memory, and there also seems to be room to expand.

A solid state hard drive (SSD) would make the unit pretty much silent

A solid state hard drive (SSD) would make the unit pretty much silent

If you want to add a second hard drive, you’re going to have to either disconnect the DVD drive and use its SATA 2 port or buy a PCIE1 SATA 3 add-on card and connect your 2nd hard drive to the port on the card

Only four stars because the hard drive is so distracting.

It only has two sata connectors on the motherboard so you have one for the included Hard drive and one for the optical drive.

Also, I was pleasantly surprised to see the motherboard had an M.2 SSD slot which was great because I had a spare M.2 SSD lying aroundBad: the hard drive is kinda loud so upgrade and the BIOS is awful!

Plus: great value, 2tb hard drive and 12 gb of ram are unusual at this price point

I couldn't use my faster SSD drive from my old system because of this.

The only thing not perfectly quiet is the soft thumping sound of the mechanical hard drive

The hard drive sounds like a machine gun, the smallest task is using 99% of the disk usage

I like the computer but the hard drive is VERY LOUD

Noisy hard drive