TG01-2003w (328J0AA) ssd upgrade specification

[pachung]

Hi,

I am new to computer hardware and have TG01-2003w (328J0AA) desktop.

I am trying to upgrade ssd and have confusion on the Motherboard Specification (https://support.hp.com/my-en/document/c07093984)

I looked into the specification and it says the Expansion slots support 

• One PCI Express Gen 3 x16
• One PCI Express Gen 3 x1
• Two M.2 expansion slots
  • One M.2 socket 1, Key A
  • One M.2 socket 3, Key M, (2280/2242)

As I understand it support two slots for PCIE Gen3 and two slots for M.2.

When I look for the ssd, it is named with PCIE 4.0 3d NAND nvme M.2 SSD.

My confusion comes here, ssd says it is gen4 with M.2. Does that mean this can be fit in M.2 socket with gen4 performance?

Or will it downgrade to gen3 PCIE since the motherboard supports PCIE gen 3?

I appreciate for any comments and your time.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

When you look at those specs the 'expansion slots' assume that there is currently nothing in the expansion slots right now.

According to the specs for your PC:

HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop TG01-2003w PC Product Specifications | HP® Customer Support

It already comes with a M.2 SSD and a Realtek M.2 Wi-Fi adapter, which means that your PC's motherboard has no free M.2 expansion slots.

If you want to install more storage, you will need to replace the 256 GB M.2 NVMe SSD with one having a greater storage capacity.

I'm not sure what PCIe generation the M.2 NVMe slot is.

You can run the free utility that I zipped up and attached below and it should tell you the PCIe generation of the M.2 SSD slot.

[pachung]

Thanks! This is very helpful. I got that Two M.2 expansion slots are already filled.

Then will I be able to use 2 PCIE Gen 3 slots?

In this case, I will need to buy PCIE 3.0 SSD. Am I understanding it right?

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

You're very welcome.

You will have to remove the existing 256 GB NVMe SSD and replace it.

There aren't two PCIe gen 3 M.2 slots.

Run the free utility that I zipped up and attached below to confirm that your existing M2 NVMe SSD slot is PCIe Gen 4.

If the currently installed drive is PCie Gen 4, probably the slot is too, but the utility will confirm that.

The

• One PCI Express Gen 3 x16
• One PCI Express Gen 3 x1

The PCIe Gen 3 x16 slot is for a graphics card which is already occupied by your PC's existing Nvidia graphics card

The PCIe Gen 3 x1 slot is for an expansion card such as a PCie x1 audio card.

[Prométhée]

hi

it doesn't matter if it's gen 3 or 4 for the m2 slot
an m2 gen 4 ssd should work
see here at crucial, the proposed list

https://www.crucial.fr/compatible-upgrade-for/hp---compaq/pavilion-tg01-2003w-
although not all of them may work, in general the information is quite reliable

Motherboard Erica6

we already seem to have talked about gen 3 or 4 here

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/Any-Tricks-to-Activate-x4-Speed...