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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).

 

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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.

 

Maintenance and Service Guide HP Pavilion Gaming 15 Laptop PCIMPORTANT! This document is intended fo...

 

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

 

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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.

 

Maintenance and Service Guide HP Pavilion Gaming 15 Laptop PCIMPORTANT! This document is intended fo...

 

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

 

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This is the SSD I pulled from the laptop:

 

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But thanks you for your assistance, appreciate it.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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Anytime.

 

Glad to have been of assistance.

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