hp omen 15-ce001la ssd questions

[DouglasMJ]

Hi i have a question here  a friend of mine gift me this laptop and  i wann buy a new ssd for it but i cant find i any place the kind of ssd that this model of laptop supports  i only know that has a m.2 slot but i  need to know a couple of things like 

if its a pci 3.0 or 4.0 slot  and the maximum capacity that supports someone told me that  a laptop can only support a max of 500gb  in that m.2 slot and if i buy one with 1tb of capacity dont gonna work  soo any help would be aprpreciated 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Below is the link to the service manual for your notebook:

NB_MSG_Pirates_1_0_931980-001

Chapter 1 indicates that HP offered NVMe SSD's up to 512 GB in the model series, but that is just what they offered, not the maximum capacity supported.

Your notebook's SSD slot is PCIe Gen 3.0.

A Gen 4.0 SSD will work fine but it will not run at its maximum advertised read/write speeds from your notebook's Gen 3.0 SSD slot.

You won't find notebook motherboards with PCIe Gen 4.0 slots until the ones came out with Intel 11th generation core processors, and only very few of those had them.

They became more common with the Intel 12th gen and newer processors.

The Crucial SSD report for the model series indicates that they sell NVMe SSD's up to 4 TB:

HP HP OMEN 15 (Model Numbers 15-ce000 - 15-ce099) | Memory RAM & SSD Upgrades | Crucial.com

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

[DouglasMJ]

and what about the "dual config" it says that supports only  1tb rpm with a max of  512gb ssd or a 2tb rpm with 250gb m.2  mines comes with a 250gb  2.5ssd  soo would be able to use that one with a 1tb m.2  ?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Sure, that would be fine.

You can't have an operating system on the 2 5" drive, or the notebook will always want to boot from the 2.5" drive, and not the NVMe SSD. 

[DouglasMJ]

uhhmm that would be fine for me i like have the op system in the 2.5" ssd  and use the m.2 for  games and files 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Interesting that you would prefer to use the 3x - 5x slower SATA SSD for the OS instead of using the NVMe SSD for the OS and programs.