Is HP Pavilion Gaming Notebook - 15-ak037tx compatible to Samsung SSD 970EVO 1TB?

[JunJung]

Hello, I have a HP pavilion gaming laptop which equips 128GB SSD as primary and 1TB HDD as secondary storage. However, the necessary components from Window 10 are occupying most of my SSD property, so I cannot install any big size application and development tool. Therefore, I would like to change my SSD to big scale storage which is Samsung 970 EVO SSD 1 TB M.2. 

I am not sure whether my laptop is compatible with the SSD card (I heard some motherboard only support less than 1TB ssd). The model name of my laptop is HP Pavilion Gaming Notebook - 15-ak037tx and it has SAMSUNG MZNLF128HCHP-000H1 - 119.24 GB as my primary drive(C: drive).

Does anyone have experience of extending SSD card with similar model of mine?

Thank you in advance.

[Photoray002 · Accepted solution]

Hello @JunJung 

There is no reason the laptop would not upgrade the M.2 drive for a larger capacity drive.

That would be a limitation of the operating system and Windows 10 will absolutely allow much larger drives to be installed.

You are good to go.

But do note that the manual says its only compatable with M.2 SATA, not NVMe. So the EVO 970 wont work.

The HP sebsite is currently down at the moment, so I cannot link to the manual yet.

[JunJung]

Thanks a million @Photoray002

You saved me! I would've bought EVO 970 if you didn't alert me it's not compatible with M.2 NVMe.

Since EVO 970 is M.2 NVMe, I think I should upgrade with Samsung EVO 860 which is M.2 SATA.

Thank you again for the reply.

[Photoray002]

You are very welcome. Here is your manual.

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04823146

On further investigation, now that the HP servers are back up and I can open the manual....

It might be a good idea to open the case and locate the M.2 port before ordering your drive.

On some rare occasions, Pavilions that didnt come with the M.2 drive preinstalled might not have the M.2 port actually soldered in. So I would open the case and take a look, just to be sure.

HP did not illustrate the location of the M.2 slot in the manual unfortunately.