HP Victus Gaming laptop 15-fb0xxx SSD Compatiblity

[Adv901]

I have a question about whether the SSD on my laptop is expandable. It does have NVMe Type SSD but I am confused as to how should I proceed in this process. Should I contact the HP service center and ask for an extra SSD or buy the SSD that is compatible with my Laptop from online storage?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Your notebook's model series comes with a NVMe SSD and there is only one SSD slot.

If you need a larger capacity drive, you will need to replace the existing one with a larger capacity drive.

The SSD slot is PCIe Gen 3.0.

While a Gen 4.0 SSD will work fine, it will not run at its maximum advertised read/write speeds from the Gen 3.0 slot.

See chapter 1 of the service manual:

Maintenance and Service Guide

[TheOldMan]

Sorry @Paul_Tikkanen , researching and typing at the same time.

According to the support page it could have any of these drives.

• 256 GB PCIe® Gen 3.0 x4 NVMe™ TLC M.2 Solid-State Drive

• 512 GB PCIe® Gen 3.0 x4 NVMe™ TLC M.2 Solid-State Drive

• 1 TB PCIe® Gen 3.0 x4 NVMe™ TLC M.2 Solid-State Drive

Depending on a clarification of the question.  Please explain what you mean when asking is the drive "expandable".  Whatever drive is present in the PC, the size cannot be expended or made larger.  If the present drive is less than the 1TB,  then it can be replaced with a larger one.  It appears that another extra drive cannot be added, either.  A larger drive can be purchased from a vendor that sells a PCIe® Gen 3.0 x4 NVMe drives, it does not have to be HP.  Replacing the drive will mean some extra working in order to get the PC back to normal - such as reinstalling the Windows OS plus all of the extra software and data that is present on the existing drive.  While it is possible to clone the present drive to the new drive (easiest way) but the normal user may have difficulty doing that with out extra purchases.  It might be a local repair shop would be a better choice for that task, if you are not willing to accept the challenge.