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HP Pavilion 16 inch Laptop PC 16-ag0000 (955U3AV)

A: My short question is can any of the current HP laptops being sold support two SSDs installed (not in a RAID 0 config)?

B: My second question is if a brand new HP laptop is purchased with 1TB M.2 SSD, can I replace it with a 2TB M.2 SSD without voiding the warranty?(this device purchased thru Costco)

 

Reason why I want 2 separate drives explained:

Purchased Pavilion x360 Convertible 15-cr0xxx in 2018. HDD crashed in 2020. I captured most of my stored data.  I then replaced the 1TB HDD (2.5") w/ 1TB SSD and also replaced the Optane memory chip in the M.2 slot with 1TB SSD.  I reinstalled Win10 (Home) and painstakingly ripped apart the personal stored document structure (removed the "Documents"/My Documents approach which is laced into the user and onedrive setup.  I have Windows and Programs entirely installed on "C" drive (PCIe M.2 NVME) and all my data stored on "D" drive (2.5" SATA).  Once completed my system (w/ only 8GB RAM) flies - power up to login 15 secs.  Anyhow, this x360 model has the trait that the hinge is stiffer than the display cover can handle over time and cracks. After taping and now two clamps on each end of the bottom of the display, that holds, but I can't close display and it is a pain to move around. Recently the battery duration dropped to 40 mins and I decided to replace.  However almost NO new laptops have second PCIe/NVME/M.2 slot for second SSD, and none have 2.5" SATA anymore. If I can't have my "A:" solution for less than ~$1000 USD,

then I am considering "B:"

- and reloading the Win11 system image from original 1TB SSD to it, shrinking the partition

- creating new partition for my older laptop's Win10 "C" drive

- creating new partition for my older laptop's Win10 "D" drive

- and if all that goes well, creating one more partition for using Linux - probably Ubuntu as I use that on other laptops

- This approach would allow all 3 OSes to access the same personal storage data

A approach will be faster as it would allow parallel drive operation by OS/programs and stored data.

 

Hoping ANY answers here can be helpful.

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@jfazny 

 

HP has many machines which has TWO slots for M.2 SSD's. They supports dual storage options or RAID 0. I don't remember them all, please try

 

           https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/ish_8073172-8073221-16

 

Regards.

BH
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The link you pointed to me is in conflict with what you said - "

Dual storage options:

(2) 1 TB PCIe® Gen 4.0 NVMe™ TLC M.2 Solid-State Drive (RAID 0 configured)"

 

I want a configuration that does not have "RAID 0 configured".

 

So I will ask again, does HP have ANY laptops with two PCIe/NVME/M.2 SSD slots WITHOUT requiring them to be RAID ??

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