Does this laptop have dual m.2 support?

[Robo25]

Does the  HP - Compaq Pavilion x360 14-ba153cl laptop have dual m.2 support?  I bought the Samsung 970 Evo m.2 ssd with NVME connectivity,  but my laptop says msata1 on its ssd slot, and its too late to return it since its already shipped. I need to know if i have to return it once it arrives.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

The service manual indicates that the 14-ba1xx model series only supports M.2 SATA SSDs, but according to the discussion I posted below the service manual link, someone installed a M.2 NVMe SSD in the model series and reported it worked (next to the last post).

Maintenance and Service Guide HP Pavilion x360 14m Convertible PCIMPORTANT! This document is intende...

Solved: Upgrade to NVMe ssd for my 14 ba114dx - HP Support Community - 6708832

[TzortzisG · Accepted solution]

Hi!

To further confirm this, tk_srq discovered a post about (almost) the exact same system (x360 14-ba153tx) supporting a PCIe drive (Samsung 970 Evo), as seen here: https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/Support-M-2-PCI-E-Notebuk-HP-P...

Update/correction

Although both these laptops with the 8th gen Intels AND their predecessors with the Kaby Lake CPUs have been reported here (on the HP forum) as successfully upgraded to PCIe storage drives, when it comes to the newer (8th gen) 14-ba100 models discussed on this thread, HP did in fact sell them with factory-fitted PCIe drives, as seen on the Official HP documents below. 

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05849049 

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06038611 

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06156384 

Therefore, the manual in this case is incomplete.......and this laptop series has official HP support for PCIe storage drives.......on its "MSATA1" slot!

Picture of the slot taken from this thread.

* After looking through the whole list of spec sheets for the previous KabyLake 14-ba000 series, I managed to find a single instance/model where HP had ALSO factory-installed a PCIe drive:

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06401030 

[Robo25]

Thanks for your replies, I'll accept them as solutions once it arrives tomorrow.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.