2021 HP Pavilion X360 15-er000 upgrade question

[Iggy_AZ1]

OK I have a new HP Pavilion X360  15" convertible laptop that has M.2 128GB NVme with 16GB Optana.
The laptop has an Intel i5-1135G7  cpu and I have 16gb of DDR4 3200 (2x8) memory.
Now I want to replace this NVme M.2 with probably a 512GB NVme card but if I get a high end card like a Samsung 980 Pro worth the money with any better write and read speeds or is the M.2 slot too slow to gain any speed?
Or
Any NVme will do?

Any suggestions on what you have upgraded to will be helpful.
Thank you

[banhien · Accepted solution]

@Iggy_AZ1 

Your can upgrade to 512GB (why not 1TB or 2TB ?). Machine supports M.2 PCIe 3x2x2 max therefore it won't run full speed of the Samsung 980 PCIe Gen 4. You can use Samsung 970  (a bit cheaper):

         https://www.samsung.com/au/memory-storage/970-evo-nvme-m2-ssd/MZ-V7E2T0BW/

Regards.

[Iggy_AZ1]

Thank you for the verification details for my HP Pavilion X360.
I suspected that was the case that the motherboard didn't handle the higher transfer speed.
I was hoping with the 11th Gen Intel chip it would.

I presently have 128GB M.2 with 16GB Optana onboard  that I will be replacing.

In regard to size I use the Laptop for travel and don't keep much on it for security reasons.
I use USB thumb drive for my data so it never is on the laptop.
Easy for me to transfer to desktop PC also.

Thanks again.

[banhien]

@Iggy_AZ1 

Physically Optane and 128GB are on a sane unit but you still need to disable Optane before swapping

          https://www.intel.com.au/content/www/au/en/support/articles/000024626/memory-and-storage.html

Regards.

[Iggy_AZ1]

Thanks again for that tip on disabling Optana Memory.  

One last question to clarify this information.
"Your can upgrade to 512GB (why not 1TB or 2TB ?). Machine supports M.2 PCIe 3x2x2 "

The last part PCIe 3 but it says 3x2x2...
Does this mean PCIe 3 and 2 x2 channels on card? or something else.

Thanks