SSD for HP ENVY dv6-7246us

[surati007]

Hello,

I am thinking of upgrading my HP ENVY dv6-7246us hard drive to SSD and would like to know if the below listed SSD will work. The current HDD is very slow and takes forever to boot/wakeup the computer.

Also, I would like to know detailed steps to configure the SSD to work with HP ENVY dv6-7246us.

The plan is to replace current HDD with below listed SSD.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HWI56DE/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?tag=promoted-20&ascsubtag=d2bc1f9...

Any help/guidance is greatly appreciated.

[Huffer]

Here is the Service Manual:

Manual

See p. 5 at the bottom. It supports only a 32 gig mSATA mSSD not because they expect you to cram an operating system into 32 gigs, but because the only practical use that system can make of the mSATA mSSD is as an acceleration cache drive which helps a mechanical hard drive to perform better. In fact, if there is a full-sized 2.5 inch SATA SSD or hard drive in the machine, you cannot boot from the mSSD. If you use only the mSSD drive, then you can run the system and boot from it, but you cannot have a regular sized HDD or SSD in the machine. 

Since the mSSD is SATA, there is no speed advantage to using the mSSD format. A 2.5 inch SATA-III SSD will perform just as well. The $119 price on that mSSD is pretty good, however. 

You can have both a SATA SSD and a mSSD but in that case the mSSD will just be for storage; not bootable. 

Post back with any more questions. 

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[surati007]

Thanks for the detailed reply. So am I understanding correctly that even with regular SSD drive, I am limited to only 160 GB?

I need atleast 500GB space to run all my software programs. Can you please suggest which Solid state drive will work with my computer?

Thanks again for your help!

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

No. When this laptop was sold solid state drivers were exotic things and a 160 gig cost a king's ransom. That was the biggest HP offered, not a hardware limit. They are more reasonably priced now. The best consumer SSD is a Samsung 850 Evo and I would get at least a 480 to 512 gig. 

But lots of good ones out there:

https://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-OCZ-Trion-Internal-TRN150-25SAT3-480G/dp/B01B4NUKME/ref=sr_1_4?s=pc&i...

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-850-EVO-2-5-Inch-MZ-75E500B/dp/B00OBRE5UE/ref=sr_1_8?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid...

[surati007]

Thanks again for the prompt response. This is very helpful.