Hard Disk Drive (HDD) upgrading / chancing with solid-state-drive (SSD)

[izmirizmir]

I use currently a HP Pavilion dv7-6b00et Entertainment Notebook PC (HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC)
which I bought  at  2th January 2012. Its serial number is [edit] and  product number is A2T95EA#AB8 ;
It has orginally two units of Hard Drive (HHD) "TOSHIBA MK1059GSM" and each of them has 1 TB (931.51 GB) capacity (totally 2 TB). The Operating System of my computer is Windows 10 (64bit).
I lost one of this hard drives in consequence of  a hand wallop, so I will buy a new one.
By the way, to raise the speed in my studies, I would like to change / renew both of hard drive units
with solid-state-drive (SSD) units of same capacity (each one 1 TB, tottaly 2 TB)  or higher capacities.
To find out if my computer's hardware supports two units of 1TB (or higher) SSD, I need to ask you before buying
new SSD units.
Thanks in advance for your helps.

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

Yes you can install any capacity 7mm or 9.5mm thick 2.5 inch SATA HDD or SSD on the market and I believe SSDs can be found up to 4 TB and hard drives up to 2 TB. Use a 2.5 inch SATA SSD for the primary drive (bootdisk) and a mechanical hard drive for the secondary disk. The cost and speed of an SSD are not really needed for a secondary disk used just for storage. The one exception might be if you do video editing and use the second drive as the source for files you are working on. I suggest Samsung 860 Evo although there are lots of very good SSDs on the market these days. Good luck. 

[izmirizmir]

Huffer, thanks a lot; the answer you gave me encouraged me.

I was thinking like you, but I needed guidance from an experienced person.
The restrictions on the configuration of disk drives at the bottom of page 5 of the manual
"Maintenance and Service Guide for HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC" (c03043778.pdf),
had made me very disquited / unsettled.

With the boldness you've given me, I'm thinking about putting your advice into practice now.
I will need more of a recommendation at this exact point:

I have already ordered a "Silicon Power Ace A55 1 TB Serial ATA III 2.5" SSD
and I have not received it yet. I ordered this product because it is much cheaper than others.
In fact, we don't know much about the quality of this product. It is not a well-known product in Turkey.
According to your suggestion, I can cancel the order of this product to buy Samsung Evo instead.

Should I cancel my SSD order of "Silicon Power Ace A55 1 TB Serial ATA III 2.5"?

What do you recommend me to do? Thanks.

[Huffer]

Actually I have used Silicon Power SSDs on laptops where the person I was helping had a very limited budget and have not had a problem with them. They don't quite perform at the top of the heap but for the price they are a very good value. 

[izmirizmir]

Thanks again to Huffer.  I've just installed 2 units new SSDs to my old HP Pavilion dv7 notebook. Both of them are Samsung SSD 860 QVO; one of them is 1TB and other one is 2 TB. My system works well for know.