Pavillion notebook 15 ab234nl Optical drive dimensions

[lambdagamma]

Hi I'd need to know the height of the drive to buy a ssd caddy, but I'm puzzled with it.

The code on the drive label is 39X1540. I think that the caddy should have a 9.5 mm height.

Does it?

Thank you in advance

L

[mdklassen]

Can you remove the CD/DVD drive, and take the rest of the computer to the store that will be selling you a caddy, and try each available caddy, to see which one(s) fit?

[visruth · Accepted solution]

Hi,


9.5mm: this one
https://www.newmodeus.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_5&products_id=562&zenid=e8e6...

But I've to warn you, SSD cannot be made bootable in optical drive bay. You can get the advantage of SSD only if you put it in 2.5 inch SATA primary HDD bay.

After that you can move HDD to optical drive caddy for storage.

Specs: https://support.hp.com/rs-en/document/c04933794

Replacement Video: https://h20574.www2.hp.com/results.htm?SID=7771366&MEID=7762F7C1-A9C3-4FC4-B819-2369854E3043

I must insist you create HP Recovery USB using HP Recovery Manager before doing any upgrade


Regards

Visruth

[lambdagamma]

Hi Visruth
I knew about the bootable issue.
Thank you for the quick and helpful response.
Regards
L

[visruth]

You're very welcome.