ProBook 455 G7 SSD Upgrade

[tel23]

Looking to upgrade an M.2 2280 SSD  in the ProBook G7.  The HP documentation, specs and whatnot only show a 512GB as the largest.  I'm looking to install a 2TB in the M.2 slot.  It will physically fit, but will this laptop see the full size?   Or does HP limit the size in the BIOS for example.

[banhien]

@tel23 

Logically It supports much higher capacity. At this stage, vendors can squeeze 2TB to 2280 (single sided) therefore 2TB is OK

Regards.

[tel23]

Thanks for the response.   It does beg the question about why HP doesn't specify the maximum (logical) size.

Similar question about the SATA drive.  There they call out a 1T HDD SATA drive.  Can that be SSD instead and once again much larger, say 3.5TB of SATA SSD? 

[tel23]

I did manage to get an email response from HP.com chat who contradicts the advice given here.  They said "this HP ProBook 455 G7 can only support 512GB M.2 SSD and 1TB HDD."  While I believe if they too just looked at the data sheet, it does show that.  What I find hard to believe is that HP would do something in the BIOS to prevent larger than this 512G because  even by today's standards (and this is a brand new laptop), that's a pretty small limit.

I hope that someone who either works for HP can dig deeper into this and confirm with engineering the maximum M.2 PCIe NMVe capacity.   Or someone who has a fairly recent ProBook and has tried to change the M.2 PCIe NVMe to a larger capacity, what was your experience like and did you go past the rated spces?  Thanks all.