HP Pavilion - 15-cw1002la ssd upgrade

[GusGus02]

I want to upgrade my laptop (HP Pavillon 15-cw1xxx with amd ryzen 5 3500u with radeon vega mobile gfx 2.10 ghz and 8gb of RAM 1 TB HDD) because its to slow with the HDD and i asked here in HP support and they told me i can even use 1 o 2 tb of sdd but I foud this in the Maintenance and Service Guide HP Pavilion 15 Laptop  , now i dont know what to do , im so confused if my laptop will it compatible or not  with dual storage using the PCIe 4 of 1 TB 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

The drive capacities are just what HP offered in the model series, not the maximum capacity supported.

The Crucial SSD report indicates they sell NVMe SSD's up to 4 TB in storage capacity for your notebook:

HP - Compaq Pavilion 15-cw1002la | Memory RAM & SSD Upgrades | Crucial IN

Regarding a PCIe Gen 4.0 SSD:

Your notebook's M.2 slot is only PCIe Gen 3.0.

A Gen 4.0 SSD will work but it will not run at its maximum advertised read/write speeds from a Gen 3.0 slot.

This table shows the maximum transfer speeds each PCIe slot generation can provide:

PCIe Speeds and Limitations | Crucial.com

[GusGus02]

thank you so much! 

so, there´s no problem in dual mode to use 1 TB of ssd an 1 tb of HDD ?

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

You're very welcome.

Since the service manual indicates dual storage configurations are supported, you should be fine.

But you will have to remove Windows from the 2.5" drive or the notebook will always want to boot from the 2.5" drive and not the SSD.

What I recommend you do is when you install the NVMe SSD, temporarily disconnect the 2.5" drive so the Windows boot manager automatically switches to the SSD.

Run the notebook for a bit just on the SSD.  Turn it on, shut it down, test it out.

Then you should be able to reconnect the2.5" drive.