Adding a SSD to a HP Pavilion 570-p059

[FoxyStoat]

Hey

I recently purchased a HP Pavilion 570-p059 desktop and was hoping to add an existing SSD (Kingston SV300S37A/120G) that I have to it. The motherboard is a Lubin SSID: 82F2.

Stupid me didn't check out the motherboard sockets before I purchased it so now I find that the only two SATA ports are used by the HDD and optical drive and the only PCI slot is holding the graphics card.

That leaves the M.2-SSD socket but my SSD is one of the older SATA port types.

Other than disconnecting the optical drive, is anyone aware of an adapter cable or some other way that I can add my SSD to the 570-p059 configuration?

Cheers

[banhien]

@FoxyStoat

Your machine has

• Expansion Slots:
  • One PCI-E x16 socket
  • One M.2 socket 1, key A
  • One M.2 socket 3, key M

Its specs:

     https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c05646023

The M.2 socket 3 is perfect for M.2 SSD. Even with only SATA 3 you still get same speed with SDD on normal SATA port. The following one is a perfect option for your machine:

          http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/pavilion-570-p059/CT12355529

Regards.

[FoxyStoat]

Thanks banhien.

I ended up getting an Intel® SSD 545s Series 256GB, M.2 80mm SATA 6Gb/s, 3D2, TLC but have not been able to get it working. Mounting it is easy enough but it isn't recognised in BIOS or anywhere in Windows 10.

I tried following Big_Dave's instructions for installing the SSD and then istalling Windows (https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/SSD-M-2-Compatibility-Lubin-Mot...) but whenever I get to the point of picking the drive to install it on, there is no drive detected.

I have tried a few suggestions I found online to get the BIOS to recognise the drive, but nothing is working. Do you have any ideas?

Cheers

[Grzwacz · Accepted solution]

Hi FoxyStoat,

Thought I would add some thoughts to your dilemma as I was involved in the linked thread in your previous post.

M.2 sockets can support either SATA or PCIe throughput. A SATA M.2 socket needs to disable other SATA ports to work. Your PC only has two SATA ports.

I think HP configures M.2 sockets on many motherboards to only support PCIe. This would make sense with the motherboard HP has installed in your PC.

This means a SATA drive such as the 545s you purchased will not work in the Lubin motherboard. Dave refers to a Samsung 960 EVO. The 960 EVO is a PCIe 3.0x4 drive.

You may need to return this drive and purchase an M.2 NVME PCIe 3.0x4 drive by Intel, or Crucial, or Samsung.

Regards

[FoxyStoat]

Thanks Grzwacz. All sorted now. I bought an Intel 760p series.

The HP recovery still would not work so I did a fresh Windows 10 install that worked fine.

Cheers

[gavrrr]

Hi. I'm looking at buying a refurbished 570-p081a from the HP Australia website and before I have a similar problem to this thread do you know if it's just a matter of getting the correct SSD to use as the C drive.

And do you know what medium, CD, DVD, USB stick to use to install WIndows 10. The HP site selling the pc's tell me they don't provide windows install disks

Your help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[gavrrr]

What did you use to fresh install Win 10? I'm looking at buying a refurbished 570-p081a from HP with no SSD, adding an SSD and installing WIn 10 on the SSD as the C drive and using the HDD as storage.

It sounds like you got yours running which is good news