Regarding Storage Upgrade

[Ebin_George]

 Hello everyone,

I have a doubt regarding my storage upgrade.

My laptop in running on a hard disk , which is too slow, so i thought of upgrading my laptop.

I found out that there is a NVME SSD slot available in y laptop at the corner(refer the pic)

but the problem is will the ssd which i am going to put will support ?

This is my Link of the SSD which i am going to buy: https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B093QL56WR/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&psc=1

So please provide me a solution

[erico]

I do not see an M.2 SSD slot on the system board.

Crucial memory states that compatible storage devices are of the 2.5"  SATA3 type, not the M.2 types and not NVME.

Unfortunately, having a Pentium processor and system board limits the options for upgrading.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi, @Ebin_George 

I see the M.2 slot, but according to chapter 1 of the service manual, only the notebooks with the Intel core processors support NVMe SSD's.

HP 15 Laptop PC Maintenance and Service Guide

Since your notebook comes with an Intel Pentium® Gold 4417U processor (which isn't even listed in the manual as a supported processor), it may be possible that only SATA M.2 SSD's are supported.

Hi, @erico 

I agree that it is difficult to see the M.2 slot location, but if you look at the service teardown video for the 250 G7 (which is the business class version of the 15-da and 15-di model series) you can see the slot is in the same location as that silver standoff in the screenshot.

Replace the Solid State Drive | HP Notebook 15, HP 250 and 255 G7 Notebook PC | HP - YouTube

[Ebin_George]

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  In the board it has mentioned as PCIe M

Which means NVMe.

And when I looked into the port it has the same physical structure port of the NVMe ssds 

So can I upgrade .

Or should I swap the HDD with SSD

But the Hard disk will be of no use, which I don't like because I have all my games and movies in that.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You can retain the hard drive for storage.

You can also use free cloning software to clone the hard drive's contents to the SSD as long as it gives you the option to clone from a larger capacity drive to a smaller one.

[Ebin_George]

Thanks dude , i am aware of it.

My real question is will i able to put a NVMe ssd into that port

[erico]

As I stated before, only SATA3, not an NVMe  SSD of the 2.5" or M.2 format.

One thing to note is that the screw and screw standoff which is normally present for an M.2 drive is not present in the image you posted,

[Paul_Tikkanen]

There is a M.2 slot in the screenshot, and the standoff and the screw to hold down the SSD is indeed present.

The issue is...does the slot support a NVMe or SATA M.2 SSD?

@Ebin_George ...The manual indicates that NVMe SSD's are only supported in the models with the Intel core processors.

You replied earlier today that the slot supports NVMe SSD's based on your observations, so why are you continuing to ask if the slot supports NVMe SSD's?

You say it does, so go ahead and install a NVMe SSD and see what happens.

I will tell you this however...every M.2 slot in every HP notebook and desktop PC that I have ever come across looks like it will support a NVMe SSD.  They all only have one key, not two.