Anyone transplanted a SSD into a g6-1189sa ?

[BrokeAssBrit]

Hi all,

I'd very much like to replace my hard drive with a SSD. Has anyone had success upgrading a Pavilion g6-1189sa in this way.. assuming it's even possible of course!

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

I haven't any first hand experience with that model, but I have installed SSD's in older HP Intel notebooks than yours and they worked just fine.

Yours has the mobile intel series 5 chipsets and mine have the mobile intel 945, 965 and series 4 chipsets.

So, I would have to conclude if a SSD works in my ancient notebooks, one should work in yours.

I used Intel 535 120 GB SSD's in mine.  You can't buy them new anymore, I don't believe.

But perhaps any quality SSD will work in your model...Sandisk, Kingston, Samsung, Crucial...

[BrokeAssBrit]

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Hi Paul,

Thanks for responding. Based on some research and your input I've placed an order for a SSD drive.

I'm looking forward to improved performance from my aging laptop, It's starting to feel almost as slow as the Brexit negotiations.

Many thanks... Mark

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome, Mark.

Please post back and let us know how the SSD upgrade went.

What a difference they make -- even though the drive will only run at the SATA II speed.

I was just watching a news feature about Brexit.

I hope it works out for all of us--even we folks in the USA will be impacted one way or t'other.