Installing an SSD in an HP Pavilion 24-R124 all in one

[bergpm]

I am considering buying an HP pavilion 24-R124 All in One PC.  I would like to add an SSD as a boot disk.  Are one of the M2 ports available for this?  (Or, would I have to replace the hardrive to do this?)  

[Grzwacz]

Greetings,

Welcome to the forum.

I am not a HP employee.

This product has a 2280 M.2 socket. You can add a PCIe NVME drive.

This may jazz up the HP factory recovery options because this system does not ship with a M.2 drive. No problem if you install a 1 TB NVME drive.

This is not a deal breaker. You can use Microsoft installation media to install Windows 10 if you have to.

Then you have a fuzzy warranty issue. You may have to remove the NVME drive should you ever need factory warranty service.

Have you looked for a HP AIO which ships with a NVME drive installed as the boot drive?

Regards

[bergpm]

I just wanted to confirm one thing--I would be able to install the new ssd drive without removing the factory installed 1 TB drive?  In other words, there is an unused m.2 port available?  

I am also considering buying a stock model with an ssd, but they seem to be quite a bit more expensive to get a decent amount of storage (I would want a total of at least 1 TB storage.)  

Thank you for your advice.  

[Grzwacz · Accepted solution]

Hi Bergpm,

Absolutely.

You can copy/clone the operating system installation on the HDD to the NVME SSD. Your PC will boot from the new drive.

Then use the 1 TB HDD as a data drive.

Regards

[Viffer98]

Hi Grzwacz,

I just saw this thread and I hope you are still monitoring it.  Where did you get the information that this AIO has an NVME slot?  From everything I can find the m.2 slot is SATA, not PCIe, so it is NOT NVME.  If you know otherwise, could you please direct me to your source?  I don't want to buy the wrong drive type but I have to get the speed up on this computer.  With the slow rotational drive this thing is a bit of a pig.  Otherwise great though.

[Grzwacz]

Hi,

HP generally uses PCIe interface on consumer based 2280 M.2 sockets.

Try a SATA device. Then return to seller if your PC does not see this storage device in the BIOS.

Then replace the HDD with a 2.5 inch SATA SSD if you don't want to experiment with a M.2 storage device.

Regards

[rariza]

Hi, I have a HP Pavilion All-in-One - 24-r104la, apparently with the same motherboard. I have bought a SATA M.2 disk, I installed, but it was unsuccessfully detected by the BIOS.  Did you manage to get a NVMe/PCie M.2 Disk detected by the BIOS?

[Grzwacz]

Hi Rariza,

You should start a new thread.

Bergpm gave me a solution. This suggests a PCIe NVME drive will work if you have a M.2 socket on the motherboard.

Regards