Possible Upgrades to RAM, SSD, HDD

[avsr]

Hello,

Would like to request for possible upgrade option details to RAM, SSD and HDD of my laptop HP 15s-gr0011au, if any. 

Thank you

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

You have a couple of options for upgrading the drive:

1. You can replace the 2.5" mechanical hard drive with a 2.5" SATA SSD

2. Your notebook has a M.2 SSD slot that supports M.2 2280 NVMe SSDs, which provide much faster read/write speeds than SATA SSDs do.

You can install a M.2 NVMe SSD and remove the hard drive, or you can retain the hard drive, format it and use it for storage only.

Memory:  Your notebook has an empty memory slot available, so you can install another 8 GB  memory chip in the empty slot.

If you were wanting to install more than 16 GB of memory, you can run this command in Windows Powershell as administrator and see if the notebook will support more than 2 x 8 GB of memory:

Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_PhysicalMemoryArray | Select-Object MaxCapacityEx, MemoryDevices

I have attached the service manual for the model series, below.

[avsr]

Did find the max Capacity of total RAM as 64GB with 2 sticks from the input provided in the answer into the powershell. How to find the max capcity of m.2 2280 nvme and the generation supported and of the SATA SSD or HDD?

Also, what is the max speed of supported RAM?

However, the RAM supported stated in the manual is upto 16GB with two 8GB sticks. Clarification regarding this would be helpful.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Theoretically there is no limit to the storage capacity of the NVMe SSD you can install as long as it is single-sided so that it fits in the SSD slot.

The Crucial SSD report for the model indicates that they sell NVMe SSDs up to 4 TB in storage capacity.

HP HP 15s-gr0011au | Memory RAM & SSD Upgrades | Crucial.com

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

A Gen 4.0 SSD will work fine, but it will not run at its maximum advertised read/write speeds from the Gen 3 slot.

There is no way to determine how large a capacity SATA SSD you can install.

You would probably be safe with up to a 2 TB 2.5" SSD.

The max memory speed is 2400 MHz, so if you were to install DDR4-3200 CL22 memory instead of SSR4-2400 CL17 memory, it will automatically run at 2400 MHz.

I don't recommend installing more than 2 x 16 GB of memory in your notebook and that will be very expensive as it is.