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‎06-15-2020 03:22 AM

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Product: HP 15 R203TX
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I have HP R203TX, which is around 5 year old. I have already increase RAM from 4 GB to now 8 GB.

Now I want to upgrade the storage capacity of laptop. It came with 1 TB 5400 RPM SATA HDD.

However i want to install SSD in it. I am looking for M.2 SATA or NVMe, but i dont know about availability of PCIe port in laptop to install it. please inform me whether i can install M.2 SSD or not? if yes which make amd model, can i use?

 

 

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‎06-15-2020 07:37 AM

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Hi:

 

Below is the link to the service manual for your notebook.

 

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04409502

 

It does not have any M.2 slots to add a SSD.

 

If you want to install a SSD, you will need to replace the 2.5" mechanical hard drive with a 2.5" SSD.

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‎06-16-2020 01:37 AM

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Thank you Paul,

I came to solution, To replace optical drive with SSD by installing caddy,

Please suggest that caddy+SSD arrangement is as good as direct connection or i should arrange HDD+caddy and directly install SDD with system.

 

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‎06-16-2020 06:53 AM

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You're very welcome.

 

Unfortunately, I wouldn't be able to help you with that.

 

But you should install the 2.5" SSD where the hard drive is now, and put your current mechanical hard drive in the optical drive caddy.

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