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Andy_1 · ‎07-15-2024

Could you please tell me if there are any limitations on the maximum SSD capacity for the HP Pavilion Gaming 15 (6VR31EA) Black laptop?

Paul_Tikkanen · ‎07-15-2024

Theoretically the sky's the limit for drive capacity as long as the NVMe drive is single sided (memory chips on only one side of the circuit board).

The Crucial SSD report for your notebook indicates they sell NVMe SSD's up to 4 TB in storage capacity.

Your notebook's M.2 SSD slot is PCIe Gen 3.0.

While a Gen 4 SSD will work, it will not run at its maximum advertised read/write speeds from the Gen 3 slot.

This table provides the maximum transfer speeds each PCIe slot generation can provide:

Below is the link to the service manual:

Paul_Tikkanen · ‎07-15-2024

Theoretically the sky's the limit for drive capacity as long as the NVMe drive is single sided (memory chips on only one side of the circuit board).

The Crucial SSD report for your notebook indicates they sell NVMe SSD's up to 4 TB in storage capacity.

Your notebook's M.2 SSD slot is PCIe Gen 3.0.

While a Gen 4 SSD will work, it will not run at its maximum advertised read/write speeds from the Gen 3 slot.

This table provides the maximum transfer speeds each PCIe slot generation can provide:

Below is the link to the service manual:

Maximum SSD capacity