Upgrade possible?

[Adam154]

Hi guys, this device is very basic. Id love to know if one way or another, i can upgrade the ssd? I know i can put an 8gb ram in it. But the ssd in it, is slow and very basic. The ssd is bottom left of photo

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Unfortunately, there is no way to upgrade the 64 GB eMMC drive to anything better.

[Adam154]

Thanks Paul. Such a shame.

Do you know what 8GB ram stick ill need to buy to upgrade?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Yes, you are completely limited to the 64 GB eMMC drive and the only thing worse is that some notebooks only come with the 32 GB eMMC drive.

I have a HP Stream Pro notebook with a 64 GB eMMC drive and that thing is barely faster than a standard hard drive.

This would be a compatible 8 GB DDR4 memory chip for your notebook.

Crucial 8GB DDR4-2666 SODIMM | CT8G4SFRA266 | Crucial.com

You can buy that part number on Crucial, UK.

Crucial 8GB DDR4-2666 SODIMM | CT8G4SFRA266 | Crucial UK

[Adam154]

Awesome!!! 
whilst i have you i have another laptop with this ram (picture) i was going to buy another 8gb ram for it but now i wonder if that would work in the laptop first mentioned cm0506sa? And then i just need to buy a 16gb stick for my second laptop?

 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Yes, that memory chip should work fine in your notebook.

Just make sure that your other notebook can support a 16 GB memory chip in each slot.

[Adam154]

Awesome thank you.

well i was going to buy an 8 for the notebook and 8 for my other laptop.

so now ill transfer the 8 into the notebook and just buy 1 16 stick for my other device. Much cheaper im thinking 😀

Can you recommend a good value 16 gb stick for a HP Elitebook 840 G5

 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

I'd go with this one since it is on sale.

Crucial 16GB DDR4-3200 SODIMM | CT16G4SFRA32A | Crucial.com

Crucial 16GB DDR4-3200 SODIMM | CT16G4SFRA32A | Crucial UK

It's going to run at 2400 MHz if your notebook has the Intel 8th gen core processor, 2133 MHz if a 7th gen.

[Adam154]

8th gen yes, fab

Notebook has been good since putting 8gb ram in.

its just that 64gb emmc is spiking way more than it should for basic tasks, any ideas?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Unfortunately, I don't think that there is much you can do to improve the drive performance. 

I checked the box to turn off the write cache buffer in the drive properties setting in the device manager.