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03-15-2021 07:49 PM
i have a 17-cd100 CTO and i would like to upgrade my hard drive ie 1 with more space could i add one or purchase a replacement. the ssd that it comes with is way to small.
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03-16-2021 10:34 PM
You should be able to upgrade to larger drive using same existing brand or
https://www.samsung.com/au/memory-storage/970-evo-nvme-m2-ssd/MZ-V7E2T0BW/
https://www.crucial.com/products/ssd/crucial-p2-ssd
Or similar from reputable vendors.
One example
https://www.crucial.com/ssd/p2/ct1000p2ssd8/ct1**bleep**2958
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03-15-2021 10:27 PM
It is a CTO machine therefore we can't get its specs but it can be similar to the following machine
https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c06661145
The question is machine can have dual storage as the above machine
Hard drive |
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Which drive is too small and you wish to replace or add ?
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03-16-2021 04:07 PM
Looks like you do not use 1TB. You can direct all your download files to other drive, not C:. Please use the following way to set default files locations:
https://www.ghacks.net/2019/10/14/how-to-change-the-default-save-location-in-windows-10/
Still not enough, you can upgrade
- 512GB SSD to 2TB and
- 1TB SATA to 2TB too (larger capacity would be to thick for your machine).
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03-16-2021 04:12 PM
im sorry i miss quated this laptop only has a 256gb ssd drive no other hard drives are installed.
HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 17-inch, Intel Core i5, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, Windows 10 Home (17-cd1020nr, Shadow Black)
03-16-2021 10:34 PM
You should be able to upgrade to larger drive using same existing brand or
https://www.samsung.com/au/memory-storage/970-evo-nvme-m2-ssd/MZ-V7E2T0BW/
https://www.crucial.com/products/ssd/crucial-p2-ssd
Or similar from reputable vendors.
One example
https://www.crucial.com/ssd/p2/ct1000p2ssd8/ct1**bleep**2958
Regards.
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03-17-2021 03:35 PM
I did say you can have 2 physical drives
- the first one is M.2 SSD (already)
- the second one is 2.5" SATA HDD/SSD
That mean you can add the second drive to your machine, and keep the first drive. The following Guide gives you some idea (pp 1, 2, 33).
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c06367545.pdf
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