(Motherboard) limitations of my HP Pavilion - 15-ck093nd

[TheJTea]

Hi there, 
I would like to know what the limitations of my motherboard (L01687-001 DAG77MB2AC0) are. It currently has 128 gb of ssd storage and 8 gigs of ram. Can the system handle 16 gigs? And could it handle a 2 tb (pcie 4.0 nvme) ssd? I do not plan on using it daily as I bought a new laptop for that, but it might be fun to use it as a home storage system / server project. 

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Below is the link to the service manual for your notebook.

HP Pavilion 15 Laptop PC Maintenance and Service GuideIMPORTANT! This document is intended for HP au...

Chapter 1 has the memory upgrade info.

Your notebook supports 2 x 8 GB of memory and can probably support 2 x 16 GB if you wanted to install that much.

1. In the search box, search for cmd and click Run as administrator.

This will open the command prompt.

2. Once command prompt is opened, type wmic memphysical get maxcapacityEx and hit enter.

There, it will show the maximum RAM capacity your PC's motherboard can support.

The capacity is shown as Kilobytes, so you have to convert it to Gigabytes by dividing the number provided in the report by 1,048,576.

HP only offered NVMe SSD's up to 512 GB in storage capacity.

I have not read any posts where someone has installed a 2 TB drive and reported it worked, but I don't know of any reason why it wouldn't.

Your notebook's M.2 slot is only PCIe Gen 3, so while a PCIe Gen 4 SSD would work it would not achieve its maximum advertised sequential read/write speeds.