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‎07-21-2016 04:33 PM

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Product: Pavilion 15-r002tu
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (64-bit)

I am planning to insert an SSD into my HP Pavilion 15-r002tu laptop. I want to know whether or not my laptop supports SSD and what kind of SSD should I insert. Also, does my laptop allow having two hard drives, one HDD and one SSD?

 

Laptop: hp 15-r002tu

OS: Windows 8.1 Pro

HDD Capacity: 500 GB

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‎07-21-2016 04:50 PM

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See p. 59 of the Service Manual here:

 

Service Manual

 

There is only a single bay for a 2.5 inch SATA hard drive, which can be replaced with a 2.5 inch SATA SSD, for which I recommend a Samsung 850 Evo model you can get on amazon.com or other sources. 

 

The replacement operation is not really easy. It requires removing the top cover and quite a few screws. Post back if you need any more help with software migration, etc. If you feel like you could do without the DVD drive you can get a caddy which would let you put a hard drive in place of the DVD drive but we would have to discuss the pros and cons of that: I am not a big fan but a lot of people do it and it is not expensive or hard. You just don't want to put an SSD in such a device. 

 

Let us know if there are more questions. 

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‎07-21-2016 04:50 PM

HP Recommended

See p. 59 of the Service Manual here:

 

Service Manual

 

There is only a single bay for a 2.5 inch SATA hard drive, which can be replaced with a 2.5 inch SATA SSD, for which I recommend a Samsung 850 Evo model you can get on amazon.com or other sources. 

 

The replacement operation is not really easy. It requires removing the top cover and quite a few screws. Post back if you need any more help with software migration, etc. If you feel like you could do without the DVD drive you can get a caddy which would let you put a hard drive in place of the DVD drive but we would have to discuss the pros and cons of that: I am not a big fan but a lot of people do it and it is not expensive or hard. You just don't want to put an SSD in such a device. 

 

Let us know if there are more questions. 

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