Does my laptop have an additional SSD slot?

[OsamaArshad]

I have the above mentioned laptop and would like to know if i can add an ssd to it.

Following are the current specs.

Core-i7 8550U

12GB RAM

4GB NVIDIA MX-150

1000GB HARD DRIVE.

Thanks for your help.

[WAWood · Accepted solution]

@OsamaArshad

Hello;

Allow me to welcome you to the HP forums!

In terms of a standard SSD (i.e., one the same dimensions as a laptop HDD) the answer is no, as that model only comes with an NMVe SSD (which is basically a memory stick) and an HDD.  There is no slot or space for an SSD the size of a laptop HDD.

While you MIGHT be able to add an NVMe SSD, you bigger issue would be that you would want to then be running Windows from the SSD and using the HDD for storage, and to do that, you would have to do one of these:

1) Remove the HDD, insert the NMVe SSD, boot from HP Recovery Media and see if it will install to the SSD. Since your model PC came with only an HDD, there is no guarantee this would work at all, and you would have to purchase both an NVMe SSD and the HP Recovery Media to even try this out.

2) Attach the NVMe SSD to your PC using an adapter, shrink the partitions on the HDD down to the size they would fit onto the SSD, and then use a utility to "clone" the HDD to the SSD.  Once again, there is no guarantee this would work, and I am not aware of any adapters that can connect an NVMe SSD to a USB port.

So basically, either option is considerable expense, a lot of work, with no guarantee that either would work.