Sunflower motherboard m.2 ssd upgrade

[Stmini]

I have a Pavilion 590-p0040 and according to hp support site has a hp sunflower mother board.

I’m looking to add a m.2 ssd to my computer and was looking for a little more information on what kind of m.2 ssd does the sunflower mother board support.

The motherboard information link has a low res photo and the description says key m ( PClex4/SATA )

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05939208

will a PCle NVMe 3 x 4 M.2 2280 ssd work on this mother board or does it need to be something different ?

[GOLD_MASTER]

Hi.

ssd compatible crucial mark:

http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for/HP-Compaq/pavilion-590-p0040#ssdResults

• 2.5-inch SSD installation guide for desktop and laptop
• mSATA SSD installation guide for desktop and laptop
• M.2 SSD installation guide for desktop and laptop

More info:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uda8ez_PhC8

[Stmini]

That helps, not a direct answer but tells me it is a m.2 SATA  not a m.2 NVMe port. Thank you very much 

[iomare]

Hi,

The answer by @GOLD_MASTER does not exclude a PCIe M2 drive as Crucial does not produce such drives.

Your PC actually supports both SATA3 or PCIe NVMe drives as you can see from the specification page of different model of your PC with same motherboard which comes with a 128GB PCIe NVMe drive:

https://support.hp.com/si-en/document/c06010496

So the answer is yes you can install such a drive in your PC (also larger capacity) . You will need to install the OS on the SSD either by using recovery disks, migrating an image or my preferred choice to perform a clean install of Windows 10 by downloading the media creation tool from Microsoft, running and creating a bootable pendrive with OS on it. Then remove the hard drive you have in the PC at the moment, insert the SSD and install Windows. Reinsert the hard drive and eliminate the Windows partition on it.

Hope it helps,

David

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[Hroudland]

I have 590-p0020 with the sunflower MB and just got an NVME PCIe Mushkin Pilot 250Gb to work.  I hadn't seen it in the bios and the existing OS did not find it in disk management.  I was thinking that I had failed.

It took using Windows Media Creation Tool 1803 on a usb, with the original drive removed  before it was found.  The install procedure located it and I was able to do a clean W10 64 onto it.   I will try a clone and migration of the original install later.  When you look at the photo, note that this is the Mushkin 250, not the 128, and that the property informaiton section shows that its Parent Device is PCI

You can see the Crystal Mark scores.   That makes me thing it's only connecting at PCIe x2 rather than an x4, as this drive posts much higher on the reviews done at the Big River merchant.

[rgh43-]

I have the HP 690-0067c which is just like the HP590.  Now I wanted to  upgrade my stock HD to a faster drive so I have removed the original drive and have just installed is a Samsung 970 EVO NVMe Series 500GB M.2 PCI-Express 3.0 x 4 Solid State Drive (V-NAND) in the M.2 SSD slot.

Now talking to HP customer NO Service & getting no where because they have little or no information in regards to what this HP 690 can do.  This would not be considered good customer service in my opinion.  So I then talked to members on both HP, Win10,  Toms Hardware forum and then also Samsung Tech Support. What I have found out is HP used an identical model MOBO,  Sunflower SSID 8433 in both the HP 590 & 690 and the HP690 will not support to the max the Samsung 970 M.2   3.0 X 4 NVMe. Maybe some other M.2 will but I have the Samsung 970 and it would support that M.2 if it could. What several others have told me along with Samsung Tech support and by using their Samsung Magician tool to test my performance benchmark which shows me my Interface is PCle Gen. 2 x4.  I can’t find anywhere that the board supports 3.0,                            My results using the Magician tool says my Write speed is 1603 & Read is1615.  According to Samsung Technical support this is way above the HD that came with the PC and if I installed an SSD this would still be double that speed, yet it is not what the board is capable of.  I should be getting over 3000.  But since the HP Sunflower board 8433 willl not support it and appears to be old technology I will not get anything near what I expected.  This PC has a Ryzen7 processor but doesn’t seem to operate any faster than my 5yr old AMD Athlon  X3 445 3.10GHz after it completes the load.  If anyone here or anyone at HP can tell me how I could get the results I would greatly appreciate it.  By the way the HP590 as far as I can tell it has 2 HD’s & one is a M.2 but I would bet that it doesn’t support speeds high than the HP 690 that I have. Now if it handles a PCle 3.0 with the same MB why didn’t they install that same board in the  HP690?  Anyone have better info as I have wasted lot of time getting the same speed since I started this quest to find out why my New Samsung 970 wont perform as advertised.   Never did HP Tech Support give me the information Samsung Tech Support has.