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‎06-08-2020 05:31 PM - last edited on ‎06-08-2020 06:20 PM by Retired

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Product: HP Pavilion All-in-One - 24-x035qe
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Greetings-

I own a HP Pavillion AIO 24-x035qe, [edit] , Product number: X6B92AA.

The Drive C is SSD and it's fine.  The 2nd drive is SATA, 1GB.

I would like to replace the 2nd drive with an SSD.

 

I have several questions:

1. What SSD manufacturer I should go with?

I know hardware is generally compatible but some HW just works better with some PC manufactures.

 

2. Is there a limit on capacity, size in MB of the drive? 

I assume I can partition it to make Windows 10 happy but not sure if things get funky for certain size drives

 

3. Would I need any additional mounting brackets and/or cables?

 

4. How to open this computer and get into the back of it to perform this task?  

 

Any and all information greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

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‎06-08-2020 08:42 PM - edited ‎06-08-2020 08:53 PM

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@AIO_owner,

The 1TB mechanical hard drive is a 2.5" laptop drive, so your all set with mounting and cabling.

General disassembly of the HP 24 x0xx series.   As for a 2.5" SSD,  IMHO Samsung EVO 860.  No matter what, your not going to exceed the SATA3 (600MB/s) rating.  $$$ versus GB size is the norm.  As long as you keep this new drive for data and not the WIN 10 OS, you will not have any issues. Be sure to format as GPT, not MBR.

 

Now if speed was your actual goal, I would clone that 256GB NMVe to a new Sumsung 970 EVO  NMve 500GB, or if you wallet is bigger, the 1TB.

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‎06-08-2020 08:42 PM - edited ‎06-08-2020 08:53 PM

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@AIO_owner,

The 1TB mechanical hard drive is a 2.5" laptop drive, so your all set with mounting and cabling.

General disassembly of the HP 24 x0xx series.   As for a 2.5" SSD,  IMHO Samsung EVO 860.  No matter what, your not going to exceed the SATA3 (600MB/s) rating.  $$$ versus GB size is the norm.  As long as you keep this new drive for data and not the WIN 10 OS, you will not have any issues. Be sure to format as GPT, not MBR.

 

Now if speed was your actual goal, I would clone that 256GB NMVe to a new Sumsung 970 EVO  NMve 500GB, or if you wallet is bigger, the 1TB.

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‎06-08-2020 08:45 PM

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@AIO_owner 


Its specs


     https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c05652663


1. You can use 2.5" SSD from

     https://www.crucial.com/products/ssd/crucial-mx500-ssd
     https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/consumer/860evo/

  Or similar from reputable vendors


2. No, capacity is huge but practically 2TB is an optimum choice


3. Looks like you do not need bracket, the existing HDD is 1TB 7200RPM 9.5mm SATA part # 857901-800 9.5mm is the thickness of a 2.5" HDD. You can double check it using Device Manager to find out what is it now. For example my machine uses Toshiba model   ...

 

        disk model.png

(In your case please look at disk 2 to find out manufacturer and model of HDD)

 

4. Please use manuals on the following link

          https://support.hp.com/au-en/product/hp-pavilion-24-a000-all-in-one-desktop-pc-series/10734611/manua...

 

Regards.

BH
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‎06-08-2020 09:52 PM

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This is a great solution also.  I chose the 1st one I read as it answered my questions.  Would be cool to combine both results so the next person has a wealth of info.

 

Thank you!

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