Envy Phoenix M.2 SSD upgrade

[jwd57]

Hi,

My system drive is getting maxed out.
Will a SAMSUNG SSD 970 PRO M.2 NVMe PICe 512GB MZ-V7P512BW
work in a HP Envy Phoenix 860-010 (Product Number M9Z94AA#ABA)
in the M.2 SSD Socket (Socket 3, key M)
and boot to Windows 10.
Thanks

[Grzwacz · Accepted solution]

Greetings,

Welcome to the forum.

I am not a HP employee.

Yes, a 970 should work with your M.2 socket nicely. You MB should support the 2280 NVME drive. Just verify a 80 mm (3.15 inch) drive matches up with the mounting point. I would think HP uses a 80 mm mount point as this drive length is very popular.

You can save time by cloning the existing operating system installation to the new SSD using Macrium Reflect free (Link).

Regards

[jwd57]

Thanks Grzwacz,
I'm getting one in a couple weeks,
I'll let the forum know how it goes.

[Grzwacz]

Hi Jwd57,

You're very welcome.

Cloning the operating system is much faster than having to start from scratch.

The key point is the existing HDD volume must be smaller than the size of the new NVME SSD. You can't clone a disk containing 1.5TBs of data to a 512GB SSD. You may have to move data to an external secondary storage device if this parameter is false.

Let the forum know how it goes.

Regards

[jwd57]

Hello,
I picked up the SSD and installed it.
Sandisk 128GB SATA replaced with Samsung SSD 970 PRO M.2 PICe 512GB
Used Samsung Migration Assistant and all went well.
Tahnks again for your help

[Grzwacz]

Hi Jwd57,

You're very welcome.

Regards