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HP EliteBook 850 G5 Notebook PC

Hello, I have an HP Eleitebook 850 G5 with Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz 1.80 GHz and 16GB Memory. It has a Samsung MZVLB512HAJQ-000H1 SSD drive installed. I have run out of space and want to upgrade to a larger SSD drive. I have been looking at the WD Blue SN570 NVMe SSD drive. This is a GEN3 PCIe SSD drive and would like to know if my laptop will be able to use the GEN4 PCIe SSD drives like the WD Blue SN580?

I would like to upgrade to at least 2TB of space.

Thank you in advance for any and all help in this issue.

Jim

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@tazenman 

 

Yes, machine will be able to use PCIe Gen 4 drives BUT it won't run at PCIe Gen 4 speed.

 

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BH
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@tazenman 

 

Yes, machine will be able to use PCIe Gen 4 drives BUT it won't run at PCIe Gen 4 speed.

 

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Thank you for your reply. So, the system will only allow 3500MB/s data transfer?

 

I guess I am ok with that and if I ever update to a newer system I can transfer the SSD drive.

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