Hi I want to find out how many open ssd slots I have left on my motherboard

[42069]

Hi I want to find out how many open ssd slots I have left on my motherboard my serial number is [Personal Information Removed] and my motherboard is hp 8079

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Your notebook only has support for one M.2 SSD.

Your notebook already has a 256 GB M.2 SATA SSD installed, so if you need more storage you will have to replace it with a larger capacity M.2 SSD.

Your notebook's M.2 slot also supports NVMe SSD's if you want to install one of those instead since they have much faster read/write speeds than SATA SSD's have.

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[TheMooDSlayer]

buy a bigger internal ssd or nvme and then put the old one into a external enclosure.

nothing quite like copying from one nvme to another over usb4
500MB a sec, yes thank you.

[42069]

Hi so my motherboard has only 1 ssd slots ??? And can I put a 1tb nvme or an only 512gb nvme ssd?

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Yes, only one M.2 slot. 

The drive capacities listed in the service manual are just what HP offered in the model series. 

I don't know of any reason why a 1 TB NVMe SSD wouldn't work. 

[42069]

And @TheMooDSlayer what does an external enclosure do ?

[42069]

And  what does an external enclosure do ?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

If you want to clone the 128 GB drive's contents to the new one, you can install the new SSD in a M.2 NVMe enclosure, and clone the old drive's contents to the new one before you remove the drive. 

I prefer clean to install Windows on new drives and reinstall my programs and files..

If you want further information on cloning drives, please start a new discussion on that. 

[TheMooDSlayer]

it becomes a very fast usb drive for storing stuff