Primary SSD upgrade Heatsink

[zonapg3]

Hi, I wanted to upgrade my primary SSD to a 2TB Samsung 990. I already upgraded the 2nd slot, which said it needed a heatsink.

Does the primary SSD slot need a heatsink too? The Primary slot is under the graphics card and with the heatsink it doesn't look like it would fit? The current 1TB SSD it came with doesn't have  a heat sink, so I assume its fine? Just curious why the second slot says it requires a heat sink and the primary doesn't.

[Bill_To]

Greetings

Welcome to the HP Forum.

Chances are the primary M.2 socket should have a heatsink if a PCIe 4.0 NVME drive or PCIe 5.0 NVME drive is installed in this M.2 socket.

Have you checked NVME drive temps of the primary M.2 socket to see what's happening?

You can download and simultaneously run: Crystal Disk Mark and HWiNFO portable to check the NVME drive.

Regards

[zonapg3]

Thanks for you help Bill. Much Appreciated.

So I checked and the primary M2 SSD that it came with is a 1TB WD PC SN810, which doesn't appear to have a heat sink.

The Samsung 990 Pro with heatsink installed in secondary spot, but I made it into the boot disk. It runs temperature at 35C, while Western Digital runs at 23C. I currently wiped the WD drive however and do not any programs off it right now.

I'm a video editor, so Ideally I would like to upgrade it to 2TB. Test results of the read/write speeds below. Looks like the WD is not horribly slower than the Samsung, but I just need that 1TB extra space to upgrade, but worried if upgrade to a 990 pro without heat sink it could have problems.

[Bill_To · Accepted solution]

Regards @zonapg3 

My pleasure.

I have a 990 Pro.

Yes, it would probably need a heatsink.

I just bought a small footprint Thermalright heatsink at Amazon. It seems to be doing a good job keeping temps under control.

You would have to verify this heatsink will work with your PC's MB space constraints.

Regards

[zonapg3]

Thanks, when I called Omen support they told me it was a 2TB limit, which some users on this forum mentioned it could handle 4TB. Not sure why the conflicting answers.

Actually, the 990 pro with the heatsink it comes with may work. I forgot when I inititally tried to install in the primary slot I used a Crucial M2 SSD and the heatsink it came with was huge.

[Bill_To]

Greetings @zonapg3 

Drive capacity limits are Windows based.

64 bit Windows 10 or W11 can do exabytes on the primary boot drive.

Regards

[zonapg3]

Interesting. It is windows 11, so it should be 4TB then. Would that support 4TB in both primary and secondary spots?

Currently I have the 2TB  990 pro with heatsink in the secondary spot and use that as the primary boot drive. Does it make a difference that the boot drive is in the secondary spot?

[Bill_To]

Greetings @zonapg3 

My pleasure.

Yes, you can do 4 TB drives without partitioning, plus well over 4TB drives if available, using all M.2 sockets on your PC's MB.

Windows 64 bit architecture dictates drive capacity.

Regards