I want to upgrade my ram from 6(4+2)gb to atleast 12(8+4)gb and install a msata drive

[nosniveL]

Hi, I am noticing a few hiccups on my laptop and as it has an intel i5 5200U CPU which I think works for my needs, I'd like to add more ram and a faster ssd to it. I discovered it as a msata port but there are types (MLC and TLC) and i'm not really sure which one to choose.

What I want to achieve:

1. Ram - https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B00CQ35HBQ/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A17AW1CHVG2YBO&psc=1

for the ram I have a cheap ram in mind, will it work in my case? I've read the manual and tried to get the specs as close as I could, is there any advice for it?

2. msata drive -

256 GB mSATA solid-state drive MLC (not pictured) available on select models766593-001

256 GB mSATA solid-state drive TLC (not pictured)766594-001

these are my options but how do I know which to choose from? is there something that's a safe choice?

Here's the link to the manual of my laptop - http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04511833

Here are my detailed specifications -

levinson-mx                 
    description: Notebook
    product: HP Pavilion 15 Notebook PC (L0D50EA#ABV)
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    version: 0974120000405F10000610180
    serial: 5CD5076RPP
    width: 64 bits
    capabilities: smbios-2.7 dmi-2.7 smp vsyscall32
    configuration: administrator_password=disabled boot=normal chassis=notebook family=103C_5335KV G=N L=CON B=HP S=PAV X=Null sku=L0D50EA#ABV uuid=35434435-3037-3652-5050-D0BF9C8D0118
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: 2296
       vendor: Hewlett-Packard
       physical id: 0
       version: 78.21
       serial: PEWML008J8B0W8
       slot: Type2 - Board Chassis Location
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: Insyde
          physical id: 0
          version: F.57
          date: 11/09/2018
          size: 128KiB
          capacity: 6MiB
          capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect edd int13floppynec int13floppytoshiba int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int9keyboard int10video acpi usb biosbootspecification uefi
     *-cpu
          description: CPU
          product: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5200U CPU @ 2.20GHz
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 4
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5200U CPU @ 2.20GHz
          serial: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
          slot: U3E1
          size: 1753MHz
          capacity: 2700MHz
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 100MHz
          capabilities: lm fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp x86-64 constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb invpcid_single pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rdseed adx smap intel_pt xsaveopt dtherm ida arat pln pts md_clear flush_l1d cpufreq
          configuration: cores=2 enabledcores=2 threads=4
        *-cache:0
             description: L1 cache
             physical id: 6
             slot: L1 Cache
             size: 32KiB
             capacity: 32KiB
             capabilities: synchronous internal write-back instruction
             configuration: level=1
        *-cache:1
             description: L2 cache
             physical id: 7
             slot: L2 Cache
             size: 256KiB
             capacity: 256KiB
             capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified
             configuration: level=2
        *-cache:2
             description: L3 cache
             physical id: 8
             slot: L3 Cache
             size: 3MiB
             capacity: 3MiB
             capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified
             configuration: level=3
     *-cache
          description: L1 cache
          physical id: 5
          slot: L1 Cache
          size: 32KiB
          capacity: 32KiB
          capabilities: synchronous internal write-back data
          configuration: level=1
     *-memory
          description: System Memory
          physical id: 15
          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 6GiB
        *-bank:0
             description: SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600 MHz (0.6 ns)
             product: HMT425S6AFR6A-PB
             vendor: Hynix
             physical id: 0
             serial: 18742381
             slot: Bottom-Slot 1(left)
             size: 2GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 1600MHz (0.6ns)
        *-bank:1
             description: SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600 MHz (0.6 ns)
             product: HP687515-H63-KEB
             vendor: Kingston
             physical id: 1
             serial: 45587719
             slot: Bottom-Slot 2(right)
             size: 4GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 1600MHz (0.6ns)
     *-pci
          description: Host bridge
          product: Broadwell-U Host Bridge -OPI
          vendor: Intel Corporation
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
          version: 09
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
          configuration: driver=bdw_uncore
          resources: irq:0
        *-display
             description: VGA compatible controller
             product: HD Graphics 5500
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
             version: 09
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
             configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
             resources: irq:50 memory:c3000000-c3ffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:6000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff
        *-multimedia:0
             description: Audio device
             product: Broadwell-U Audio Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:03.0
             version: 09
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
             resources: irq:52 memory:c6210000-c6213fff
        *-usb
             description: USB controller
             product: Wildcat Point-LP USB xHCI Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 14
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.0
             version: 03
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm msi xhci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=xhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:48 memory:c6200000-c620ffff
        *-communication
             description: Communication controller
             product: Wildcat Point-LP MEI Controller #1
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 16
             bus info: pci@0000:00:16.0
             version: 03
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=mei_me latency=0
             resources: irq:51 memory:c621a000-c621a01f
        *-multimedia:1
             description: Audio device
             product: Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1b
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
             version: 03
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=64
             resources: irq:53 memory:c6214000-c6217fff
        *-pci:0
             description: PCI bridge
             product: Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #1
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1c
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.0
             version: e3
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:42
        *-pci:1
             description: PCI bridge
             product: Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #2
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1c.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.1
             version: e3
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:43 ioport:5000(size=4096) memory:c5000000-c5ffffff ioport:c2000000(size=16777216)
        *-pci:2
             description: PCI bridge
             product: Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #3
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1c.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.2
             version: e3
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:44 memory:c6100000-c61fffff
           *-network
                description: Wireless interface
                product: BCM43142 802.11b/g/n
                vendor: Broadcom Limited
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
                logical name: wlan0
                version: 01
                serial: 74:29:af:e0:aa:5f
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
                configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=6.30.223.271 (r587334) ip=192.168.0.104 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
                resources: irq:18 memory:c6100000-c6107fff
        *-pci:3
             description: PCI bridge
             product: Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #4
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1c.3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.3
             version: e3
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:45 ioport:4000(size=4096) memory:c6000000-c60fffff
           *-network
                description: Ethernet interface
                product: RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
                vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
                logical name: eth0
                version: 08
                serial: d0:bf:9c:8d:01:18
                capacity: 100Mbit/s
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp aui bnc mii fibre 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
                configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 firmware=rtl8106e-2_0.0.1 04/23/13 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII
                resources: irq:19 ioport:4000(size=256) memory:c6004000-c6004fff memory:c6000000-c6003fff
        *-pci:4
             description: PCI bridge
             product: Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #5
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1c.4
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.4
             version: e3
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:46 ioport:3000(size=4096) memory:c4000000-c4ffffff ioport:b0000000(size=301989888)
           *-display UNCLAIMED
                description: 3D controller
                product: GM108M [GeForce 840M]
                vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:0a:00.0
                version: a2
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress cap_list
                configuration: latency=0
                resources: memory:c4000000-c4ffffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff memory:c0000000-c1ffffff ioport:3000(size=128)
        *-isa
             description: ISA bridge
             product: Wildcat Point-LP LPC Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
             version: 03
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: isa bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=lpc_ich latency=0
             resources: irq:0
        *-sata
             description: SATA controller
             product: Wildcat Point-LP SATA Controller [AHCI Mode]
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
             logical name: scsi0
             logical name: scsi1
             version: 03
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: sata msi pm ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list emulated
             configuration: driver=ahci latency=0
             resources: irq:49 ioport:6088(size=8) ioport:6094(size=4) ioport:6080(size=8) ioport:6090(size=4) ioport:6060(size=32) memory:c6218000-c62187ff
           *-disk
                description: ATA Disk
                product: ST1000LM024 HN-M
                physical id: 0
                bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
                logical name: /dev/sda
                version: 0001
                serial: S31LJ9BG106770
                size: 931GiB (1TB)
                capabilities: gpt-1.00 partitioned partitioned:gpt
                configuration: ansiversion=5 guid=03543615-b231-4728-b4b7-f04da98ea720 logicalsectorsize=512 sectorsize=4096
              *-volume:0
                   description: Windows NTFS volume
                   vendor: Windows
                   physical id: 1
                   bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1
                   logical name: /dev/sda1
                   version: 3.1
                   serial: 3aad-97a2
                   size: 648MiB
                   capacity: 649MiB
                   capabilities: boot precious ntfs initialized
                   configuration: clustersize=4096 created=2015-02-26 13:54:45 filesystem=ntfs label=WINRE name=Ba state=clean
              *-volume:1
                   description: Windows FAT volume
                   vendor: MSDOS5.0
                   physical id: 2
                   bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,2
                   logical name: /dev/sda2
                   logical name: /boot/efi
                   version: FAT32
                   serial: 2606-2a59
                   size: 245MiB
                   capacity: 259MiB
                   capabilities: boot fat initialized
                   configuration: FATs=2 filesystem=fat mount.fstype=vfat mount.options=rw,noatime,fmask=0113,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro name=EFI System Partition state=mounted
              *-volume:2
                   description: reserved partition
                   vendor: Windows
                   physical id: 3
                   bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,3
                   logical name: /dev/sda3
                   serial: 707ef48c-6308-4a46-bc5d-1ec83c6ec144
                   capacity: 127MiB
                   capabilities: nofs
                   configuration: name=Mi
              *-volume:3
                   description: Windows NTFS volume
                   vendor: Windows
                   physical id: 4
                   bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,4
                   logical name: /dev/sda4
                   version: 3.1
                   serial: ee6a9b1c-e140-6f4d-858a-94b53b63c421
                   size: 229GiB
                   capacity: 229GiB
                   capabilities: ntfs initialized
                   configuration: clustersize=4096 created=2014-11-01 07:54:42 filesystem=ntfs label=Windows name=Ba state=clean
              *-volume:4
                   description: Linux swap volume
                   physical id: 5
                   bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,5
                   logical name: /dev/sda5
                   version: 1
                   serial: a1869522-08b9-45cf-a334-ef60ff8a5bf2
                   size: 1023MiB
                   capacity: 1023MiB
                   capabilities: swap initialized
                   configuration: filesystem=swap label=swapMX pagesize=4095
              *-volume:5
                   description: Windows NTFS volume
                   vendor: Windows
                   physical id: 6
                   bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,6
                   logical name: /dev/sda6
                   version: 3.1
                   serial: f621-adb6
                   size: 1775MiB
                   capacity: 1794MiB
                   capabilities: boot precious ntfs initialized
                   configuration: clustersize=4096 created=2017-08-31 04:25:52 filesystem=ntfs state=clean
              *-volume:6
                   description: Windows NTFS volume
                   vendor: Windows
                   physical id: 7
                   bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,7
                   logical name: /dev/sda7
                   version: 3.1
                   serial: 2e2ad8e6-3d51-0f4d-bec1-b21be0c64891
                   size: 452GiB
                   capacity: 452GiB
                   capabilities: ntfs initialized
                   configuration: clustersize=4096 created=2016-01-01 12:15:45 filesystem=ntfs label=EXTRA name=Ba state=clean
              *-volume:7
                   description: Windows NTFS volume
                   vendor: Windows
                   physical id: 8
                   bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,8
                   logical name: /dev/sda8
                   version: 3.1
                   serial: 008a-d438
                   size: 821MiB
                   capacity: 831MiB
                   capabilities: boot precious ntfs initialized
                   configuration: clustersize=4096 created=2015-12-27 16:57:17 filesystem=ntfs state=clean
              *-volume:8
                   description: Windows NTFS volume
                   vendor: Windows
                   physical id: 9
                   bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,9
                   logical name: /dev/sda9
                   version: 3.1
                   serial: b2d12a00-a324-8a42-b27c-dc4e06dbd77a
                   size: 21GiB
                   capacity: 21GiB
                   capabilities: ntfs initialized
                   configuration: clustersize=4096 created=2016-04-14 15:27:09 filesystem=ntfs label=RECOVERY state=clean
              *-volume:9
                   description: EXT4 volume
                   vendor: Linux
                   physical id: a
                   bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,10
                   logical name: /dev/sda10
                   logical name: /
                   version: 1.0
                   serial: a69a0981-47fc-4eba-bd8c-a2aa75f095dc
                   size: 78GiB
                   capabilities: journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover 64bit extents ext4 ext2 initialized
                   configuration: created=2020-05-14 18:32:55 filesystem=ext4 label=rootMX19 lastmountpoint=/ modified=2020-05-18 10:47:22 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,noatime mounted=2020-05-18 10:47:34 state=mounted
              *-volume:10
                   description: EXT4 volume
                   vendor: Linux
                   physical id: b
                   bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,11
                   logical name: /dev/sda11
                   logical name: /home
                   version: 1.0
                   serial: 354a245a-fe85-4e35-b603-f971883dddfb
                   size: 145GiB
                   capabilities: journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover extents ext4 ext2 initialized
                   configuration: created=2020-04-19 19:34:56 filesystem=ext4 lastmountpoint=/home modified=2020-05-18 10:47:36 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,noatime mounted=2020-05-18 10:47:36 state=mounted
           *-cdrom
                description: DVD-RAM writer
                product: DVDRW  SU208GB
                vendor: hp
                physical id: 1
                bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
                logical name: /dev/cdrom
                logical name: /dev/cdrw
                logical name: /dev/dvd
                logical name: /dev/dvdrw
                logical name: /dev/sr0
                version: HH00
                capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
                configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
        *-serial
             description: SMBus
             product: Wildcat Point-LP SMBus Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
             version: 03
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             configuration: driver=i801_smbus latency=0
             resources: irq:18 memory:c6219000-c62190ff ioport:6040(size=32)
     *-pnp00:00
          product: PnP device PNP0c02
          physical id: 1
          capabilities: pnp
          configuration: driver=system
     *-pnp00:01
          product: PnP device PNP0b00
          physical id: 2
          capabilities: pnp
          configuration: driver=rtc_cmos
     *-pnp00:02
          product: PnP device HPQ8001
          physical id: 3
          capabilities: pnp
          configuration: driver=i8042 kbd
     *-pnp00:03
          product: PnP device SYN1ec0
          physical id: 6
          capabilities: pnp
          configuration: driver=i8042 aux
     *-pnp00:04
          product: PnP device PNP0c02
          physical id: 7
          capabilities: pnp
          configuration: driver=system
  *-battery
       product: VI04041
       vendor: 11-85
       physical id: 1
       version: ManufDate
       serial: DummySerialNumber
       slot: Primary
       capacity: 41440mWh
       configuration: voltage=14.8V
  *-power UNCLAIMED
       description: OEM Define 1
       product: OEM Define 5
       vendor: OEM Define 2
       physical id: 2
       version: OEM Define 6
       serial: OEM Define 3
       capacity: 75mWh

[Echo_Lake]

@nosniveL

Thank you for posting on the HP Support Community.

After reading your post, I did go through the Product specifications of your product and found that you have 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 installed on the PC.

Your computer support Max 16 GB RAM DDR3L-1600 MHz dual channel support.

Hope this helps! Keep me posted for further assistance.
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