Hello, I have an Hp 8643 smvb motherboard. I can't find information on M2 slots. I want to install a

[sergeyKa7]

Hello, I have an Hp 8643 smvb motherboard. I can't find information on M2 slots. I want to install an SSD drive.

HP Pavilion Desktop TP01-0039ur PC(28R08EA)  

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[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Below is the link to the motherboard specs for your PC:

HP Desktop PCs - motherboard specifications, Erica | HP® Support

If your PC does not have a M.2 NVMe SSD installed in the available slot, you can install one.

The PCIe slot generation is 3.0.

A Gen 4.0 NVMe SSD will work fine but it will not run at its maximum advertised read/write speeds from the Gen 3 slot.

The specs indicate your PC has a 1 TB SATA hard drive, so if you want to use the NVMe SSD as the boot drive, I recommend you move the hard drive's SATA data connector from port 0 to port 1, or the PC will probably boot from the hard drive and not the NVMe SSD.

[sergeyKa7]

Thank you very much! All the best to you!!!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Glad to have been of assistance.

Have a great day!