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‎04-10-2016 02:37 AM

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Product: Pavilion DV4-1413TX
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista

Hi, the HDD inside my laptop is quite old and slow. I want to replace it with an SSD. Is there any brand or model that is for sure compatible with my HP laptop (HP Pavilion DV4-1413TX)? Can you recommend some? Many thanks for your help!

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‎04-10-2016 05:29 AM - edited ‎04-10-2016 05:30 AM

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This is the dv4 service manual:

 

Manual

 

See p. 59 for installation instructions. 

 

You can use any 2.5 inch wide SATA SSD. Those are going to be 7mm thick but will still bolt into the caddy in place of a 9.5mm thich hard drive. Get at least a 240 gig. Anything smaller is just too small to work with and prices are more reasonable now on the larger sizes. On an older machine like yours, you can shop on price since differences in performance are not really going to be too noticable. Your laptop is SATA-II but you should get a SATA-III SSD and it will downclock to SATA-II operation and will still be amazingly fast compared to a hard drive. 

 

This is a "bargain" drive available on Amazon with prime shipping for under $60 and would work fine:

 

http://www.amazon.com/ADATA-Premier-SP550-240GB-ASP550SS3-240GM-C/dp/B013J7Q338/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&q...

 

This is a "top of the line" SSD, the one I personally always recommend, for $88:

 

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E250B-AM/dp/B00OAJ412U/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1...

 

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‎04-10-2016 05:16 AM

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check this

and enter the product details and click find upgrade

http://www.crucial.com/AdvisoryDisplayView?manufacturer=HP+-+Compaq&catalogId=10151&langId=-1&storeI...

 

 

can't find the exact product in this site so almost similar results

http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for/HP-Compaq/pavilion-dv4-1415tu

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‎04-10-2016 05:29 AM - edited ‎04-10-2016 05:30 AM

HP Recommended

This is the dv4 service manual:

 

Manual

 

See p. 59 for installation instructions. 

 

You can use any 2.5 inch wide SATA SSD. Those are going to be 7mm thick but will still bolt into the caddy in place of a 9.5mm thich hard drive. Get at least a 240 gig. Anything smaller is just too small to work with and prices are more reasonable now on the larger sizes. On an older machine like yours, you can shop on price since differences in performance are not really going to be too noticable. Your laptop is SATA-II but you should get a SATA-III SSD and it will downclock to SATA-II operation and will still be amazingly fast compared to a hard drive. 

 

This is a "bargain" drive available on Amazon with prime shipping for under $60 and would work fine:

 

http://www.amazon.com/ADATA-Premier-SP550-240GB-ASP550SS3-240GM-C/dp/B013J7Q338/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&q...

 

This is a "top of the line" SSD, the one I personally always recommend, for $88:

 

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E250B-AM/dp/B00OAJ412U/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1...

 

If this is "the Answer" please click "Accept as Solution" to help others find it. 

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‎04-10-2016 06:34 AM

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Thank you very much as well~ I guess I can get any 2.5 sata ssd for my old guy 🙂

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‎05-25-2016 02:14 AM - edited ‎05-25-2016 02:14 AM

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I have been wrestling with my Win 10 HP 655 laptop for the last few days trying to get it to recognise an SSD at all!  I have tried three different Sandisk SSDs and none of them are recognised by the bios even though they come from working systems.  I am almost out of ideas.

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