I am really upset with this laptop because my order specs say it has a 1 TB hard drive and the computer says right on it that it is 1000 GB hard drive

They had to replace hard drive so we lost everything saved on computer

Quite fast, and I like the 1TB hard drive.

I would not recommend this laptop unless you plan to replace the hard drive with an SSD

Hard drive is horrible

The TB hard drive is a nice asset for a computer in this price point.

I tossed out the existing 1TB hard drive and replaced it with with a $45 Kingston SSD (A400 SSD 240GB SATA 3 2.5” Solid State Drive SA400S37/240G, also from Amazon)

's of other reviews have also mentioned replacing or supplementing the 1TB mechanical hard drive with a Solid State Drive (SSD)

Access to the hard drives and RAM is quite convenient and easy to swap out.

Acer replaced the hard drive etc

When I tried to backup my files by plugging in my external hard drive, it recognized it okay and opened the window to show the files, while I was looking it, it suddenly closed that window and opened another window

It does all the things I need to such as PowerPoint, excel and have a 1tb hard drive

The memory and hard drives are easy to get to for upgrades

C drive issue in first week

I bought this laptop premised on the idea of installing a solid state hard drive

Dead hard drive after maybe 10 days.

The hard drive died after 11 months.

Windows on this 5400rpm hard drive is abysmal and is almost completely unusable

It came with Windows 10 Home Edition not Pro, the OS is out of date, the hard drive is one of the slowest and running at 5400 rps instead of 7200

VERY easy access (3 small phillips head screws) to upgrade memory, hard drive, and an empty M.2 slot for an SSD (screw & standoff included).I've read people complaining that upgrading it themselves was "not easy"

I replaced this hard drive within a few weeks of purchasing this laptop due to debilitating performance

The hard drive is painfully slow

Good deal if you make the memory and hard drive upgrades as recommended by other reviewers on this product.

but it's still faster than a SATA SSD) and installed a fresh Windows 10 Pro on it, leaving the 1TB spinner hard drive for media storage

My results:The internal drive is fast

So if you want to stick to a slow hard drive for capacity, you may want to revisit your approach

I know laptop hard drives are generally not the fastest, and on all my laptops I have replaced them with SSDs, but on this computer, its really really slow

the cheap accompanied hard disk drive

The hard drive crashed after 2 months

hard drive is the slow boat from China.

I used acronis; a free hard drive copying software to copy over my win10 to the the new 250gb M.2

The appeal of mechanical hard drive is that at any given price point, you get a WHOLE LOT MORE storage with mechanical.

Or you can convert it into an external hard drive

Works awesome with Linux after upgrading the slow hard drive to an SSD and adding some more RAM.

Hard drive was slow on arrival, slowed continually, then failed completely less than two months later

The battery lasts about 5 hours if I'm watching movies from the hard drive, I haven't watched one from the DVD drive, but would imagine battery life would be significantly diminished due to the power required to run the drive.

Fortunately, Acer has made this a semi modular laptop with an easy access to the hard drive, RAM and M.2 slot

I installed a value priced solid state hard drive from a major manufacturer and the performance of this laptop was instantly improved

If you buy this, upgrade the hard drive to SSD or you will be sorry.

I know a lot of people hate the provided hard drive, and you can definitely upgrade it if you want/need, but for my needs, I've got zero complaints.

Oh yeah, you can also very easily upgrade RAM and hard drive, which I really do not need to do, but I have the option later on.

The good if not the best thing about this laptop is the long battery life and the 1TB hard drive that is bit much memory for me as

What do you want for $329?I've swapped out the 1TB hard drive for a $70 Crucial 500GB NVMe PCIe SSD (https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07J2WBKXF/( and swapped out the 6GB of memory it came with for a $68 16GB (2 8GB-SODIMMs) kit from Samsung (https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KEAEX54/) .With these added-on bits, performance is far faster than most "ordinary folks" will need anytime soon

Also note that this model is Optane-Ready, meaning you could purchase a 16GB m.2 NVME 3.0 x2 Optane card and get much better performance from your hard drive and overall system performance

The network is being pushed, the hard drive is being run heavily, and the CPU is periodically busy.

Other reviewers said it's simple as pie, no problems, no issues--just buy a drive for $38 from Amazon, plug it in and away you go

(6GB vs 4GB - more on that later) but otherwise screen, hard drive, even it's looks are the same.

Just hard drive

I left in the original hard drive for extra storage.

The processor is powerful for everyday usage but the hard drive is a bit slow, making the whole experience slow

The hard drive is painfully slow

Files can always be stored on flash drives or SD cards (you can buy very large capacity flash drives or SD cards for reasonable price), they can also be stored on external hard drives, or even on the DVD-RWs

I found another YouTube video title “Acer Install a Hard Drive and Do a Fresh Install of Windows 10” that showed I could just slide the HDD out, which I did.

The only negative is the included 1 TB 5400 RPM hard drive

They replaced the hard drive

Fortunately, the drive is easy to take out.

Out of the box, it is relatively slow in my opinion, but I knew the 5400 RPM spinner-style hard drive would cripple its' performance when I bought it

I have had this computer since November, 2018 and since then have purged the hard drive twice, had two other support calls (they are great by the way) and sent the laptop back for repairs which took 15 days

Otherwise, no, at least if you want a computer with a solid state drive, which is pretty much a must in my book

Looking at the specifications for the computer, the components that I most wanted to change were the mechanical hard drive and the mismatched pair of DIMMs that will prevent operating in dual-channel mode.

Then the hard drive crashed less than a year after I bought it

I know laptop hard drives are generally not the fastest, and on all my laptops I have replaced them with SSDs, but on this computer, its really really slow

I TB hard drive put in 2TB SSD Card, Removed the Ram Chips and used 16GB set

The hard drive crashed after 2 months

( i didn't have another computer to use ), then rebooted the computer, changing the BIOS to boot from USB, loaded windows 10 to the ssd, then ran msconfig to delete the 1T original hard drive from the boot option, thought I was all set

I believe it either was damaged during shipping or the hard drive is quite defective

I do not use this laptop for gaming nor do I store a lot of videos or high-quality images on the hard drive.

I think it would make more sense to just invest in a ssd upgrade for it and see if that solves the issue, since it seems to be solely the hard drive that is failing

In the first week the hard drive went out

We’ve had this laptop for 4 ½ months, and we’ve had to send it back to Acer TWICE because the hard drives have failed.

The cost of a new hard drive, reinstall the operating system, recover my data files and transfer to the new hard drive was quoted just under the total amount I paid for the computer at $379.

Now the weakest feature that literally flushes this otherwise fine laptop's performs down the drain is its hard drive

I bought this laptop premised on the idea of installing a solid state hard drive

In my opinion every computer with windows 10 needs a solid state drive for the operating system and the one i got was $35 https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N2IAIHE/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The hard drive going bad at 7 months, I am very disappointed and disturbed

This product was built with the modern business man in mind; full HD screen with acceptable camera quality for Skype calls, The large trackpads and full keyboard layout make running the Microsoft office suite a breeze, and the 1 TB capacity of the hard drive means most users will never need to expand the storage solution built in

I decided I wanted to get a second opinion and took it to a local computer shop who told me that the hard drive was bad

The optical drive works well

Great laptop for the money, once I added 8 gb of memory(replaced the 4 gb stick), cloned the existing hard drive to a new 500gb ssd

's of other reviews have also mentioned replacing or supplementing the 1TB mechanical hard drive with a Solid State Drive (SSD)

I added in an inexpensive M.2 SATA drive (~$40 for a 250 Gb drive) and re-arranged the boot order in the bios and this computer boots into Windows very fast, compared to boot time with the slow hard drive it comes with.

I tossed out the existing 1TB hard drive and replaced it with with a $45 Kingston SSD (A400 SSD 240GB SATA 3 2.5” Solid State Drive SA400S37/240G, also from Amazon)

Evidently the hard drive on these computers is no good or corrupt.

However, the one caveat is this: the laptop comes with a 1 TB mechanical hard drive that is clearly the bottleneck of this system

Quite fast, and I like the 1TB hard drive.

Now for laymen a 1TB hard drive is a good incentive, and well, it does offer lots of space to store all kinds of data, photos, movies, songs etc

apparently when they came to fix it they didn't put the main hard drive back in.

The manufacturers will continue to put spinning, larger capacity hard drives in for a while.

Ordered this computer for my son and within couple months the hard drive just shut down.

On 2-25-19 took to computer repair and was informed the hard drive had crashed and nearly $200 to replace.

The 5400 rpm hard drive is outdated and incredibly slow

and I'm looking into upgrading the hard drive

Running off the original hard drive.

The only thing is that pesky 5400rpm hard drive

The 1TB hard drive makes storing all my images and files hardly a concern and it will also run Paint.net smoothly

Power it up, should boot into installing Windows 10.Select "custom Install".Select new install (not upgrade).Should bring up a screen to select the disk drive, if you've removed the hard drive and have a new SSD, just select the only drive and tell it to use it

Do the math: It's $380 for the unit (that's with tax included), $38 for the SSD ($59 in my case, because I chose a 256 GB as opposed to a 128 GB), plus whatever it costs to have someone install the hard drive, and we haven't even gotten to removing bloatware, of which there is no shortage

I replaced the hard drive with a 500GB

People were recommending installing a solid state drive (SSD) to reduce boot time and increasing the memory (RAM) size to allow the computer to operate faster.

so we assume we got return someone's manipulated the hard drive

However, if the performance of the laptop is so sluggish with a barely 5% full hard drive, just imagine what kind of a performance you will get with like 50% or more full hard drive

But you can reduce the boot time of your laptop - with the mechanical hard drive - by simply letting it go into hibernation mode.

Very easy to unscrew a panel on the bottom to access RAM, M.2 SATA stick slot, hard drive.

There are slots to easily access the hard drive and RAM without having to disassemble the case

Replacing the hard drive with an SSD or M.2 SSD will make it feel like a completely different laptop (4+ stars), with few of the bottlenecks

Excellent value for the money after adding in a fast solid state drive.

It can be very responsive at times, but for the first several minutes after every boot it is painfully slow, with the hard drive pegged at 100% usage

There is a 1TB HDD hard drive which is pretty nice, I wish it was an SSD though (You can add an SSD)

Very easy to unscrew a panel on the bottom to access RAM, M.2 SATA stick slot, hard drive.

Instead of throwing it across the room I installed an M.2 SSD easily into the slot on the bottom of the laptop, moved the operating system to the solid state drive, and it now operates like a dream.

It will keep crashing because there is not enough space left on the hard drive

so make sure to buy the right drive for that slot

You need something called an 'enclosure', they convert your regular hard drive into an external hard drive and cost less than $30.

You could simply replace the current hard drive with a 2.5" SSD drive too.

you open the cover, to the left would be a hard drive, I recommend removing it

You can replace the hard drive with a SSD drive, later if you need to

Hard drive: 1 TB Toshiba 5,400-rpm hard drive.

Today is January 16th, 2019 and I was so unsatisfied with the slow boat from china hard drive that I upgraded to an M.2 1TB SSD.

Every restart meant 5+ minutes of 100% hard drive activity and the system effectively unusable

After the drive activity caught up, the laptop could feel pretty peppy at times, but involve the hard drive

It seemed like an affordable laptop until the hard drive dies within 6 months

Up until the hard drive failure, I really enjoyed my Acer.

The price of the 1TB hard drive ACER uses would have given you 1/4 that storage in an SSD

I used Macrium Reflect (free version) to capture a backup image of the original 1TB factory hard drive before making any software modifications, and to capture an additional backup image of the SSD after each significant modification had been made

After years of relying on SSD drives, returning to a spinning hard drive was painful

I read many reviews of many laptops and this is widely regarded as the best value in a desktop replacement, especially if one does what I did and upgrade the RAM and add a solid state drive.

And yes, you can always sell your 1TB hard drive for like $30-40 on ebay or letgo or similar sites

Great battery life, quick with a couple small upgrades (SSD Hard Drive Upgrade and 16GB Ram Upgrade)

Entrega super rápida, buena velocidad, y relación calidad precio.

fast and modern I had an acer aspire for 10 years which is longer than

DESIGNWith a bevy of ports including VGA and a DVD drive, plus its heavy weight, the E 15 screams "work computer!"

The E drive also not there, lack of partition but overall this laptop can consider very fast