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‎10-11-2016 01:19 PM

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Product: HP ENVY 14 (14-2020NR)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I have 16gb of RAM (max for my computer) and I have the I5 processor.  I would like to upgrade to an SSD.  I'm not sure which SSD to upgrade to or if my computer is equipt to handle the upgrade.  I was told that it need to support AHCI or SATA3 to upgrade to an SSD.... I don't have a good grasp of what those are or if I truely need them to upgrade/if its worth the upgrade.  Thank you for any help in advance.

 

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‎10-11-2016 03:36 PM

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Hi,

 

Your machine supports SSD even it only supports SATA 2 because SATA 3 is backward compatible with SATA 2.

 

Regards.

BH
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‎10-11-2016 03:36 PM

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Hi,

 

Your machine supports SSD even it only supports SATA 2 because SATA 3 is backward compatible with SATA 2.

 

Regards.

BH
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