HP Pavilion NVMe Upgrade

[badwolf456]

I am looking to upgrade the NVMe SSD Drive to a bigger drive. (currently has a Toshiba 256Gb unit). I notice that the current NVMe drive is both B & M keyed. Does the replacement NVMe drive have to be B & M  keyed as well?? Most of the replacement drives I've seen are just M keyed (I believe).

Thanks.

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

I am surprised that your notebook's NVMe SSD has two notches.

As you indicated, most only have one notch.

When I google the part numbers for both of the 256 GB NVMe SSD's listed in chapter 3 of the service manual, the illustrations show the drives having one notch.

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You can install a single notch NVMe SSD in your notebook.

[badwolf456]

This is the SSD I pulled from the laptop:

But thanks you for your assistance, appreciate it.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

My guess is that is a PCIe 3.0 x2 NVMe SSD and you can install a faster performing PCIe 3.0 x 4 SSD so it uses all 4 PCI express lanes the slot should have.

The manual indicates that x2 and x4 NVMe SSD's were offered in the model series.

[badwolf456]

Quick update, bought a Patriot Memory P300 512Gb NVMe for my Pavilion, and is working without problems.  Would be interesting to know if 1Tb or larger will work , but for now happy with 512Gb.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

A 1 TB NVMe SSD should work fine because if you look at chapter 1 of the service manual I posted the other day, HP offered 1 TB NVMe SSD's in the model series.

[badwolf456]

Thank you, sorry I didn't see that. I've seen it now!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Anytime.

Glad to have been of assistance.