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‎01-31-2024 07:43 AM

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Product: HP Pavilion Gaming 15-ec1000 Laptop PC (9EK37AV)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 11

I have a HP Pavilion Gaming AMD Ryzen 7 Octa Core AMD R7-4800H - (16 GB/1 TB HDD/256 GB SSD/Windows 10 Home/4 GB Graphics/NVIDIA GeForce 1650Ti/144 Hz) 15-EC1512AX Gaming Laptop. 
It has a 237gb SK hynix PC601 HFS256GD9TNG-L2A0A SSD inside it by default
I'd like to upgrade it to a Western Digital WD Blue SN580 NVMe 1TB, Upto 4150MB/s, 5 Y Warranty, PCIe Gen 4 NVMe M.2 (2280), Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (WDS100T3B0E).

1. Will my laptop be able to use it? 

2. Although it says 256gb, my ssd only has 237gb. Is that what all of them have?

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‎01-31-2024 07:47 AM - edited ‎01-31-2024 07:51 AM

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Your notebook's M.2 SSD slot is PCIe Gen 3.0.

 

A PCIe Gen 4 SSD will work but it will not run at its maximum advertised read/write speeds.

 

This chart provides the maximum transfer speeds you can get from the various PCIe slot generations:

 

PCIe Speeds and Limitations | Crucial.com

 

How to calculate actual storage size:

 

Hard Drive Capacity Calculator | Real vs Claimed capacity (platinumdatarecovery.com)

 

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‎01-31-2024 07:47 AM - edited ‎01-31-2024 07:51 AM

HP Recommended

Your notebook's M.2 SSD slot is PCIe Gen 3.0.

 

A PCIe Gen 4 SSD will work but it will not run at its maximum advertised read/write speeds.

 

This chart provides the maximum transfer speeds you can get from the various PCIe slot generations:

 

PCIe Speeds and Limitations | Crucial.com

 

How to calculate actual storage size:

 

Hard Drive Capacity Calculator | Real vs Claimed capacity (platinumdatarecovery.com)

 

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