Does HP Pavilion ab522tx supports M.2 NVMe SSD?

[gegobyte]

Hi,

I have HP Pavilion 15-ab522TX laptop which I bought back in 2016. It came with 5400 rpm 1 TB Hard Drive which is now at the end of it's life. I get 100% disk usage pretty much all the time.

I would like to replace the hard drive with M.2 NVMe SSD. I searched and found that Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB is a good SSD.

But does the laptop I have supports it? If not then maybe I will have to replace the HDD with Samsung 860 SATA SSD instead.

So I have a couple of questions - 

1) Does the laptop support M.2?

2) Does the laptop support M.2 NVMe?

[iomare · Accepted solution]

Hi,

That is what you are going to need to do as it does nor support M2 SSDs

The best choice is the Samsung which you mentioned and you will have a great boost in the everyday performance of the PC.

On page 49 of service manual you can see the steps to install the drive.

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04642845

Hope it helps,

David

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[gegobyte]

A few months back, using a software I found that the motherboard in this laptop has PCI Express slot so I thought M.2 might be supported.