Advice for buying an SSD to add to my HP Pavilion 15-ec0751ms?

[NylaSmokeyface]

I want to add an SSD to my HP Pavilion 15-ec0751ms, and I was recommended a Samsung 980 (NOT 980 Pro) NVMe SSD and a Western Digital Blue SN 570 NVMe SSD for it.  I think I might go with the Samsung 980, but I don't quite know what to look for beyond that. Do the Gens matter? Are there specific models that aren't compatible or would be worse? Should I get a heat sink as well?

I tried asking both the HP shopping support team and the technical team about compatible SSDs through live chat but I kept getting ping-ponged between the shopping team and the technical team.

And when it comes to putting the ssd in, do I need thermal paste? Do I need a special screwdriver to unscrew the lid and the cover?

Thanks in advance!

ETA: Also, I've read that adding an SSD may void my warranty. Is this something I should be concerned about?

[banhien]

@NylaSmokeyface 

Its specs

             https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c06459239

It ONLY has 1 slot for M.2 NVVMe SSD for storage which is occupied by existing 256 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD. You can NOT add more M.2 SSD. But it has empty 2.5" bay for SATA HDD/SSD drive. If you wish to add SATA SSD you can use

                 https://www.samsung.com/au/memory-storage/sata-ssd/870-evo-1tb-sata-3-2-5-ssd-mz-77e1t0bw/

You don't need thermal paste but you need

• Hard drive cable part # L72698-001
• Hard drive bracket (included in the Bracket Kit) part # M17205-001

For warranty, it is a grey/gray area very hard to say in concrete. For new generation machines, adding something or fixing something is a work for Authorized Service Provider parts . You can add yourself. If something went wrong due to this upgrade, I think HP would not honor warranty.

Hope this makes sense.

Regards.

[NylaSmokeyface]

I forgot to mention that my laptop has a Toshiba hard drive, not a solid-state drive. My bad for not clarifying that. There are no other drives in the laptop apart from the HDD.

Do I still need the tools you mentioned if I wanted to get an SSD to put in the empty NVMe M.2 slot?