HP 15-eg2073cl laptop: Does it support upgrade to a PCIe Gen4 SSD?

[cloudforest]

Hi, need assistance with determining if my laptop supports a PCIe Gen 4 M.2 SSD, or should I stick with a PCIe Gen 3 M.2 SSD? Thanks in advance!

The laptop came with a 512 GB Sk Hynix PCIe M.2 SSD. I would like to upgrade to a 2 TB SSD. I'm considering the following two replacements:
Crucial P5 Plus 2TB PCIe 4.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD, up to 6600MB/s - CT2000P5PSSD8
Crucial P3 2TB PCIe 3.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD, up to 3500MB/s - CT2000P3SSD8

Laptop details:
Model: HP 15-eg2073cl (part of the HP 15-eg2000 series, with Product id (System SKU) 644Y9UA)
OS: Windows 11 Home
Processor: Intel Core i7-1255U processor
Motherboard: HP 89F6

[Irfan_06]

Hi @cloudforest,

Welcome to the HP Support Community.

Thank you for posting your query, I will be glad to assist you.

I see that you are looking for information related to your laptop.

As I see here your laptop was built to work with PCie 3 gen M.2 SSD and upgrading to gen 4 might not work as the slots will only work with gen 3 ssd.

Suggest you to replace the ssd as it came with the laptop if you are planning to replace it.

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I hope this helps.

Take care and have a great day ahead!

Irwin6

HP Support

[erico]

@Irfan_06 

What you stated about about fitment and compatibility of a PCIe Gen 4 M.2 SSD is not an accurate statement.

A PCIe Gen 4 M.2 SSD will fit the slot on the laptop's system board, it just will not run at Gen 4 specification speed.

[cloudforest]

@Erico & @Irwin6, thank you for responding!

I bought a Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB PCIe Gen 4 NVMe M.2 SSD, since it was on sale. I intend to replace the SK Hynix 512 GB SSD, which came with the laptop.

I haven't yet installed the Samsung 980 Pro though.

[cloudforest]

I successfully upgraded from a SK hynix BC711 PCIe Gen 3 512 GB SSD to a Samsung 980 Pro PCIe Gen 4 NVMe 2 TB speed. I ran CrystalDiskMark once using the "NVMe SSD" setting. I do not get Gen 4 speeds.

SK hynix BC711:

SK hynix BC711 PCIe Gen 3 512 GB

Samsung 980 Pro PCIe Gen 4 NVMe 2 TB SSD:

Samsung 980 Pro PCIe Gen 4 NVMe 2 TB SSD

[erico]

I stated that would be the case in one of my previous replies.

I would guess that you believe it now.

[cloudforest]

@Erico, I was just confirming it. I upgraded mainly for the extra storage space.

[cloudforest]

Forgot to post the pic yesterday.