Pavilion Laptop 17t-ab200CTO NVMe upgrade restrictions question

[Psychee]

Like several other people on this board, I would like to upgrade the 128 SSD I currently have (SD8SNAT-128G-1006) to something larger.

I see from elsewhere on this board that my motherboard is compatible with NVMe SSDs.  And I know that I need M.2 2280 configuration.

What I don't know is whether there is a limit on the size and speed of the upgraded SSD I can put in it.

Would a SanDisk Extreme M.2 NVMe Gen 4.0 Internal SSD of 1TB size work?  They have smaller (500G), larger (2TB) and slower (Gen 3.0) models available and I am trying to pick one that won't give me any frustrating surprises as I clone the original to it and swap them.

[In case it matters, there is a 1TB 7200 rpm SATA HDD, a 2.80 gigahertz Intel Core i7-7700HQ, and 16GB RAM)

Thanks in advance for your help!

Psychee

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

We can only go by what the service manual indicates as far as the storage capacity.

NB_MSG_Parfait_1_4_Win10_855133-004 (hp.com)

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

Theoretically, the sky's the limit as far as storage size is concerned.

For example, the Crucial memory/SSD report indicates that they sell NVMe SSD's up to 4 TB for the model series.

HP - Compaq Pavilion 17t-ab200 CTO | Memory RAM & SSD Upgrades | Crucial.com

SSD speed...Your notebook's NVMe SSD slot is PCIe Gen 3.0.

A PCIe Gen 4 SSD will work but it will not run at its maximum advertised read/write speeds.

This chart shows the maximum transfer speeds the various PCIe slot generations provide.

PCIe Speeds and Limitations | Crucial.com

[Psychee]

That was very helpful!  Thank you so much!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.