Pavilion Power 15-cb059na

[GMac91]

Hi,

I am looking to upgrade to ssd but cant find anywhere that states what my laptop will accept, for example: max gb ssd it will take and the type of ssd it will support. Also would it be possible to have dual storage options such as ssd/hdd? if so what would be the max gb my machine would support?

I also have an enquiry about voiding my warranty with such upgrades, I asked the reseller where I bought my machine from (currys) if they could do the upgrade and still keep my warranty intact but the assistant was not sure. so my question is are currys/pcworld authorised by hp do do hardware upgrades and will such upgrades via currys void my warranty??

thanks.

[Huffer]

Support resources are down right now so I cannot reach the Manuals. However, I can tell you that you can have both a hard drive and an M.2 2280 SSD disk and it is OK to open the back for such upgrades or memory upgrades and it will not spoil the warranty. Obviously if the laptop is damaged in the process or the upgrade causes issues HP will not help nor will they support the parts you add in. Seems fair. 

Resources should be back online in a couple hours tops and if you respond to this post I will see it and fill in the details for you when I can see the Service Manual. 

[GMac91]

Thanks for the reply, also thanks for the information on my warranty issue as this was part of the reason I was hesitating to go ahead and upgrade.

When the resources are back up and running any information on the sizes of storage for ssd and hdd would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

Here is the Service Manual:

Manual

This is what you see when you remove the back cover

M.2 circled

Right now for storage you have a 1 TB 7200 rpm SATA 2.5 inch disk that you can see the location of to the right of the red circle. You could upgrade that storage device to a 2 TB mechanical drive or you can install up to a 4 TB 2.5 inch SATA SSD (they cost about $1700). 2 TB is just the biggest size of mechanical drive you will find. 

For the M.2 disk there is no maximum capacity but you have to be careful of compatibility. There are several brands and models that are causing issues regularly. I have put M.2 NVME/PCIe disks in 4 different HP laptops with no issues but I use the HP Part number disks. They are Samsung PM961 models. Not to go off on a pedantic side trip but you understand there are SATA M.2 disks and PCIe/NVME M.2 disks? Your laptop will accept either type but the NVME type is about 4 times faster. As I say all the time here: the Holy Grail of computer storage and you definitely want it and you want to have Windows booting from such a disk. 

The Manual only lists up to a 256 PCIe/NVME disk but that is just what HP offers and should not be understood as a hardware limit. 

You might also want to upgrade your 8 gigs of RAM while you are in there, by the way. 

I know this is a lot to chew on and I am happy to answer any additional questions. 

[GMac91]

Thankyou for your help and advice, this is most useful to me :).