Storage Issue

[MORGUE90]

Greetings Community, 

I currently am running on 500 GB nvme which was pure installed in it and 500 GB SSD that I installed additionally but I’m again going low on storage. So my question is what I the maximum limit of Sata SSD I can install and maximum limit of NVME. 

[Bill_To]

Hi @MORGUE90 

Welcome to the HP Forum.

Your Laptop is running W10 or W11 so it would have a EFI/BIOS and the drives would be formatted using GPT instead of MBR.

You would not have any drive capacity limitations when upgrading either drive.

MBR is limited to 2 terabyte partitions. GPT can do 18 exabyte (~18.8 million terabytes) partitions.

Regards

[MORGUE90]

Greetings, 

So If I use Western Digital WD Blue SN580 NVMe 2TB, PCIe Gen 4 NVMe M.2 (2280),  It should work right? without any complications and limitations. Do I get the benefit of its speed of 4150MB/s.

[Bill_To]

Hi @MORGUE90 

A WD 2280 NVME drive should work with your PC.

You can do a 2 TB or larger capacity NVME drive.

You may not get up to PCIe 4.0 data transfer rates if your MB is limited to PCIe Gen 3.

Download and run Crystal Disk Info to check the data transfer rate using the HP drive. Then check this again after installing the new NVME drive. I could not find any MB info to see what you have: (PCIe Gen 3 x 4 or PCIe Gen 4 x 4).

Regards