HP Omen 17-w151nr HDD replacement

[blancoal]

I have an old HP Omen 17-w151nr laptop. I'm considering adding an HDD to my laptop, but all I can find is the hp part numbers for the drive, connectors, and bracket, and the hp parts site says they are not available. I'd like to find the specs so I can just buy them in other places. Can I learn what SATA interfaces and connectors it supports?

Here's what was in the manual:

1 TB 5400 RPM SATA RAW HYBRID 8 GB 731999-005
2 TB 5400 RPM SATA RAW 9.5 mm 801808-005
1 TB 7200 RPM SATA RAW 9.5 mm 766644-005
Hard drive connector and cable 862964-001
Hard drive brackets with rubber 911227-001

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

It looks like this seller on eBay has the whole kit...

911227-001 DD0G37HD001 GENUINE HP HD CADDY W/ CONNECTOR 17-W 17-W053DX (CC311) | eBay

[banhien]

@blancoal 

The specs of your machine is

        https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c05301915

It has  512 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD now. Do you wish to add (not replace) HDD ? You can use all standard 2.5" HDD's (or SSD's) on market today and you need

• Hard drive connector and cable part # 862964-001
• Hard drive brackets with rubber part # 911227-001

to keep HDD/SSD in place. You have to use par numbers to search ONLINE including eBay.

For SSD, I recommend you use Crucial MX500 because I know Crucial supplies 9.5mm adapter to increase thickness of the drive , I can't see other vendors do. For example

            https://www.crucial.com/ssd/mx500/ct2000mx500ssd1/ct11540587

Regards.

[blancoal]

I wish to add an HDD to the existing SSD. I see I have an empty slot right now. When I shopped for HDDs I see many specs about SATA versions etc and have no idea what will be compatible. I had seen those specs but they don't have this information, or at least I cannot find it there. 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

I gave you a link to the compatible kit you need to add a 2.5" drive to your PC. 

I don't understand what you mean by specs. 

The drive connector is SATA 3 and you need a 2.5" SATA 3 (6.0 GB/S) HDD.

7.200 RPM or 5,400 RPM is fine.

If you can't find a 2.5" x 9.5mm HDD, you can also use the 7.0 mm thick size too.

Personally, I would be adding a 2.5" SATA SSD instead of a slow-poke mechanical hard drive.

[blancoal]

Thank you! Those are the kind of specs I was looking for - what I see in the listings for drives. 

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

You're very welcome.

I just edited my last response to provide more info in case you missed it.

[blancoal]

I am actually trying that right now!