Zbook 15 G6 doesn't accomodate a 2.5 inch hard drive?

[Forst]

I was under the impression the ZBOOK 15 G6 would fit a 2.5 inch SSD? But when I opened up the backcover part of the motherboard is preventing anything of 2.5 inch size to fit.

Also there's no connector to be found?

How is this possible?

 

[Lil_Boy_Blue]

Hi

2 choices...

• HP ZBook 15u G6 Mobile Workstation
• HP ZBook 15 G6 Mobile Workstation

The 15 has a 

Storage and drives

Feature

Description

SATA 6.35 cm (2.5 in) Storage bay drives

2 TB 5400 rpm SATA

1 TB 7200 rpm SATA

500 GB 7200 rpm SATA

500 GB 5400 rpm SATA FIPS 140-2 SED Drive

256 GB SATA TLC SSD

1 TB SATA TLC SSD

HP Z Turbo Drive (NVMe PCIe SSD)

256 GB PCIe (NVMe) TLC Solid State Drive

512 GB PCIe (NVMe) MLC Solid State Drive

512 GB PCIe (NVMe) Self Encrypting Drive (SED)

1 TB PCIe (NVMe) MLC Solid State Drive

2 TB PCIe (NVMe) MLC Solid State Drive

512 GB PCIe (NVMe) TLC Opal 2 Solid State Drive

Hard drive controllers

2.5 in storage bays and M.2 storage bay (SATA)

SATA-3 for SSD

HP Z Turbo Drive

PCIe Gen 3 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive

 allocation.

15 U

Storage and drives

Feature

Description

Primary storage bay

M.2 SATA SSD

128 GB

512 GB FIPS-140-2

HP Z Turbo Drive (NVMe PCIe SSD)

256 GB PCIe (NVMe) TLC SED

512 GB PCIe (NVMe) TLC SED

256 GB PCIe (NVMe)

2 TB PCIe (NVMe)

Drive controllers

M.2 Storage Bay (SATA)

SATA-3 for SSD

HP Z Turbo Drive

PCIe Gen 3 x 4 lanes NVMe

So you could be correct, equally ..........

So with the SKU: it may be possible to differentiate.

[Forst]

I have the 15 G6 (not the 15u). This is what surprises me even harder.

I ordered the Intel Core i9-9880H with 1TB PCIe (NVMe) MLC Solid State Drive, which leaves me with another free NVMe slot (as I expected by reading the specifications).

But the bay to add a 2.5inch drive is being occupied by part of the motherboard. So that 'slot' is completely useless.

What am I overlooking here?

[Lil_Boy_Blue]

Perhaps the SKU:

and a photo?

[Forst]

Should have posted that right away, sorry

SKU: 6VD99AV

[Lil_Boy_Blue]

Hi

http://partsurfer.hp.com/Search.aspx?searchText=6VD99AV

Description : HP ZBOOK 15 G6 BASE MODEL MOBILE WORKSTATION

And I don't have a clue.

All the evidence suggests you are correct, but that is no real help.

Sorry.

[Forst]

SKU: 6VD99AV

Two photos to show the motherboard taking up space in the 2.5 inch bay

No SATA connector to be found...

Not enough space to fit a bracketNo connector for SATA drive

[pluffi]

Just faced exactly the same unpleasant surprise when opening mine (Zbook 15 G6, 6TU91EA#ABB) to mount a brand new 2.5 inch 2TB SSD. Money well spent 😞 The irony is that the laptop did come with a separate 2.5 inch storage drive holder, which is supposed to fit into that bay. So, unless a model is explicitly fitted with a 2.5 inch HDD drive, how on earth can one figure out whether it has a functional SATA bay o not? No specs sheet seems clear about this issue.