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Interesting over at http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-envy-hdx/633055
LINK:HP ENVY 17-3000 3D Edition Notebook PC series specifications
Some of the questions iI have are:
1) 80 GB SSD mSATA, what brand?
2) Is the OS on the the mSATA?
3) Is the mSata CARD sata II or III?
4) Is the mSATA SLOT sata II or III?
5) Installing an 2.5'" SSD to HDD bay 1, do I need sata II or III?
6) If I have the mSATA and a 2.5" SSD, booting from HDD bay 1(SSD), the mSATA isn't any real use to me, is it? All 2.5" SSD's are faster than an any mSATA's. The only real use for the mSATA would be for a duel boot setup (UBUNTU/XP). Am I correct with this???
Finall Question for now,,,,,,,,,
Has HP screwed up the series numbers on the Envy 17-3000 3D?
From the Envy 17-3090nr 3D page, envy 17-3090nr 3D it takes me to the envy 17-3000 3D page????
Whats wrong here??
Don't know that I can directly address your questions here, but this was my experience:
I got my Envy 17 with just the 750GB Hybrid drive. I also purchased a 128GB mSATA card and a 256GB SATA III SSD. The plan (and this is working) is to boot from the mSATA, run "current" VMs and apps from the SSD, and use the 750GB Hybrid for unused VMs and less used crap (media and more media).
I originally tried to remove the shipped drive and do the restore to the mSATA - no go. It consistently failed to restore at the last step and the restore error boxes no longer have the red X to close and continue as they did in the past. I could have done a clean install but since HP doesn't provide all of the software in an easily accessible format, I really wanted the HP image. So, the next try was to clone the Hybrid drive to the mSATA. To do this I resized the partitions down to where I wanted them on the Hybrid drive, then cloned them to the mSATA. This is where a quirk in the BIOS reared it's head. Basically, you can boot from the mSATA or "notebook drive" which appears on my machine to mean only Bay 2 if the mSATA is installed (or Bay 1 if there is no mSATA). The result was putting the mSATA in and moving the Hybrid drive to Bay 2 and putting the SSD in Bay 1 before I could successfully clone the Hybrid drive to the mSATA and still be able to boot from the Hybrid until I had the mSATA where I wanted it.
This configuration does place the SATA III SSD in the Bay 1 position which is the SATA III bay (yay - I think I answered part of your question here!).
Due to the outrageous pricing HP has for memory and HDD, I would definitely recommend buying your own gear and upgrading yourself if possible. I searched around and got the Bulletproof mSATA drive (SATA II) and a Corsair Force 3 SSD (SATA III) for decent prices (the Momentus XT is a SATA III drive). And yes, before anyone points out "you suk and should have got MegaMan SuperSSD ZZZ! because it's faster" I was going for price/"real world performance", not synthetic benchmark scores. 
Ports as identified by HDTune are: mSATA - SATA II, Bay 1 - SATA III, Bay 2, SATA II.
To answer your questions:
1) No idea
2) Yes
3) In my case, II. I think they ship with the Samsung part which is also II
4) No idea
5) I would go with III
6) It could be since in my case I couldn't boot from Bay 1 if I had the mSATA installed. Keep in mind that any SSD is going to be silly fast compared to a normal HDD. In my case, I decided that the cost & flexibility were worth it to get a dedicated 128GB SSD boot drive that, while slower than my main 256GB drive will still allow decent boot speeds. For me, the price jump up to 512GB SSDs was just too ridiculous to contemplate. I tried, but it drove me to drink as even good scotch is cheaper than that price increase.
