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Well your model was one of the early adopters for M.2. HP offered an M.2 SATA SSD as an option but only on models with no more than 8 gigs of RAM and yours has 16. To make it even more difficult, on this model the M.2 slot (not to mention the memory slots) is on the backside of the motherboard so if you wanted to install an M.2 you would perhaps have to give up a memory module and drop to 8 gigs and the motherboard would have to be removed. This is definitely not a job for a shadetree mechanic. Optionally you can replace the hard drive with a 2.5 inch SATA SSD such as the Samsung 860 Evo. The speed would be the same as a SATA M.2. You could put a relatively inexpensive 2.5 inch SSD in the hard drive bay say a 256 gig (not recommending to go any smaller for the boot disk) and then place the higher capacity mechanical hard drive in an optical bay caddy if you need significant onboard storage. Here is a link to the Service manual and page 67 shows SSD installation.
Even just getting to the hard drive bay is no walk in the park on this model so you may want to share the link to the Service Manual with your technician. Page 76 shows the best image of the backside of the motherboard and on further reflection it may not be necessary to remove a memory module to install an M.2 but it looks like the M.2 runs under and perpendicular to the wifi module. Yours is just one of those models made a few years back where HP made any kind of service a final exam in an MIT electrical engineering class, unfortunately.
If it were my laptop I would just buy a 512 gig or 1 TB 2.5 inch SSD and not mess with an optical caddy and I certainly would not remove the motherboard only to possibly find out there is not an M.2 slot.
Post back with any further questions and please accept as solution if its the info you needed.
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Well your model was one of the early adopters for M.2. HP offered an M.2 SATA SSD as an option but only on models with no more than 8 gigs of RAM and yours has 16. To make it even more difficult, on this model the M.2 slot (not to mention the memory slots) is on the backside of the motherboard so if you wanted to install an M.2 you would perhaps have to give up a memory module and drop to 8 gigs and the motherboard would have to be removed. This is definitely not a job for a shadetree mechanic. Optionally you can replace the hard drive with a 2.5 inch SATA SSD such as the Samsung 860 Evo. The speed would be the same as a SATA M.2. You could put a relatively inexpensive 2.5 inch SSD in the hard drive bay say a 256 gig (not recommending to go any smaller for the boot disk) and then place the higher capacity mechanical hard drive in an optical bay caddy if you need significant onboard storage. Here is a link to the Service manual and page 67 shows SSD installation.
Even just getting to the hard drive bay is no walk in the park on this model so you may want to share the link to the Service Manual with your technician. Page 76 shows the best image of the backside of the motherboard and on further reflection it may not be necessary to remove a memory module to install an M.2 but it looks like the M.2 runs under and perpendicular to the wifi module. Yours is just one of those models made a few years back where HP made any kind of service a final exam in an MIT electrical engineering class, unfortunately.
If it were my laptop I would just buy a 512 gig or 1 TB 2.5 inch SSD and not mess with an optical caddy and I certainly would not remove the motherboard only to possibly find out there is not an M.2 slot.
Post back with any further questions and please accept as solution if its the info you needed.
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You will have to relocate the faceplate from the DVD drive over to the caddy but not hard to do.
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