SSD upgrade 690-0010

[Kyle899]

I was wondering if a NVME PCI-Express 3.0 x4 would work or if only data m.2 works in this machine.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Below is the link to the Crucial memory/SSD report for your PC.

https://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for/HP-Compaq/pavilion-690-0010

According to the report, only M.2 SATA SSD's are supported, not NVMe.

[Kyle899]

Thank you.  One more question, can a m.2 SSD be used with an existing SATA HDD, or would it have to be SATA and not m.2?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Yes, the M.2 SATA SSD should be able to run in conjunction with the current hard drive.

In other words, you could install the OS on the SSD, and use the hard drive for storage.

The problem is I am not 100% sure how to accomplish this, because the PC will want to boot from the current hard drive first.

I think what you would want to do is to disconnect the current hard drive from the power cable, install the M.2 SSD, install the OS on it, make sure you set the M.2 SSD to boot first in the BIOS, test it out, and if it works, connect the hard drive back up.

Also before installing a M.2 SATA SSD, check the BIOS' security settings and make sure the M.2 slot is enabled.

One of our forum members had a different model PC, and installed a M.2 SSD, and it didn't show up in the BIOS.

This was a bit perplexing to me initially because he had originally bought a SATA M.2 SSD, and it didn't show up.

I checked the specs for his model, and discovered that it only accepted NVMe SSD's.

So, I informed him that the problem was that he installed the wrong type of SSD.

So, he gets a NVMe SSD, and it still doesn't work.   Now I don't know what to tell him.

Turned out the M.2 slot was disabled in the slot security setting by default for some reason.

Once he enabled the M.2 slot in the security settings, the NVMe drive showed up, and worked just fine.