Does my motherboard from my laptop supports a nvme m2 ssd.

[FrancisB1]

On my HP 833A motherboard is a m2 sata ssd installed but i want to speed it up with a nvme ssd bt i cant's find the exact specifications of my motherboard. Does anyone knmows of it will word? I have a HP 17-bs035nd

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

No sorry its SATA only. See p. 3 of the Service Manual here:

Manual

Post back with any other questions and please accept as solution if its the info you needed. 

[FrancisB1]

Hi, 

Thanks for the fast answer and the maintenance service and service guide. I saved it, maybe need it later.

I have 3 other related questions :

1. I've heard ther are adapters so your sata connection gets nvme ready. Do you know about that?

2. Is there a lot of time difference between sata m2 and nvme m2  ?

3. If there is significant time difference: Is it possible to connect such a fast nvme ssd (maybe samsung 970) from outside your laptop (through usb? or something else) and then install windows 10 on it and make laptop start from there?

[Huffer]

There is no adapter. NVME operates by a direct connection to the processor and you cannot make a faster connection by adding it onto the side of the system...everything still has to go through the peripheral SATA (or USB) bus and would slow it down. By time difference I think you may mean speed? NVME transfer rates are up to about 3200 mbps and SATA maxes out at maybe 550 mbps so there is a big theoretical difference. In actual operation a SATA SSD is still maybe 4 times faster than a mechanical hard drive so a SATA SSD makes a computer much fasterand most operations seem to be almost as fast with a SATA SSD as with an NVME. The difference between SATA and NVME is noticeable but it doesn't seem to be anything like 5 or 6 times faster for the NVME. My advice to anyone is to install an SSD of the fastest kind your laptop will support and you will never go back to a spinner hard drive. 

[FrancisB1]

Thanks for your answer. What i really want to know is: is there much difference in boot time of a laptop with a m2 sata ssd and a m2 nvme ssd (now i have m2sata ssd, my startup time  from pressing startup button untill desktop is about 30 seconds). 

I know 30 seconds is allready fast. On my old laptop with a mechanical drive it was at least 3 minutes. So 30 seconds is nothing compared to that but I just want to know..... is it really true that m2 nvme ssd start up time is observable faster or is it just a sales pitch! 

By the way, I can write in english (I,m Dutch) but the translation sales pitch i had to google!

[Huffer]

Honestly an NVME would be even faster. My boot time on my personal laptop is 19.1 seconds with an NVME disk. 

[FrancisB1]

Well I just have to live with it. Waiting 10 seconds longer i'll will survive. This laptop is OK and it's only 1 1/2 year old.

I had my eyes set on a HP Envy 17-bw0550nd. This weekend all the 4 big electronica pricefighters here in the netherlands reduced the prices of there laptops with 20% discount. Even the online (dutch) HP store is. But it's still €1040 (=$1186) and that is just to much money for me for only 10 seconds lower boottime.

And I don't think buying another m2sata ssd helps much, now there is a Samsung m2 sata MZNTY128HDP-000H1 installed