Which NVME or SSD will work on HP Pavilion 590 motherboard?

[Zack5th]

The HP motherboard specs online tell me that for my (Windows 10, 64-bit) HP Pavilion 590-a0006no Desktop PC it has:

• HP name: Clivia-A9
• SSID: 8436

How can I figure out that can I use SSD or NVME? I'd like to look up NVME, so open also for recommendations what will work with these specs.

[Bill_To · Accepted solution]

Hi

Check here https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06117156 for your PC specs.

Here https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05932425 is your MB.

You should have a 256 GB NVME SSD (operating system) and a 1 TB HDD (data).

The MB has one M.2 socket for NVME drives. You can replace the current 256 GB NVME drive with any higher capacity 2280 NVME SSD. Quality 2280 NVME drives are offered by Samsung, Western Digital, Crucial, and may other manufacturers.

The MB has two SATA data ports in use by the HDD and a DVD drive.. You can replace the platter HDD with a 2.5 inch SATA SSD.

[Zack5th]

Thank you very much for the clear answer. 

I will eventually want to change my current NVME with the OS into a higher volume. But don't know how to get Windows 10 and all copied as-is into the new one. These are all very new things to me.

Right now a quicker thing might be to change the HDD into that 2.5 inch SATA SSD. 

Thank you once again for the help!

[Bill_To]

Hi

My pleasure.

Imaging software or cloning software can be used to copy the current operating system disk image to a new NVME SSD. Some NVME SSD manufacturers offer free cloning software when you buy the SSD.

I was using Macrium Reflect free. Sadly Macrium has shut down the free version.

I am using Paragon  https://www.paragon-software.com/home/#free free version now.

[Zack5th]

Hmm. Appreciate it.

But if I only have one NVME SSD with the OS. And I buy a new larger NVME, I also need to probably acquire some extra wires or adapter so I can copy the files from OS drive... while still using the OS drive in its place. 

[Bill_To]

Hi Zack5th

Yes. you would need a M.2 to SATA 3 adapter to clone the drive in Windows.

Backup and Recovery software usually provides cloning and disk imaging operations. I prefer disk imaging because it provides flexibility.

Also, drive imaging software can run outside of Windows using a USB recovery stick that most imaging software allows you to create. Drive imaging software can also create a disk image while running inside of Windows. You would need to run the imaging software outside of Windows to copy the saved image to the new SSD.

You can create an image of the current operating system SSD on a second internal disk or an external USB drive.

Install the new SSD. Run the drive imaging software again, outside of Windows.

Copy the saved OS image from the source drive (external USB or second internal disk) to the new (target) SSD.

Since you are moving from a smaller capacity SSD to a larger one some imaging software parameters can be changed to saturate the new, larger capacity SSD. Or you can use Windows Disk Management to expand the volume after a successful disk image operation.