Replacing the HD with an SSD?

[StinkingBadger]

Hi,

I have managed, by the Grace of God, to pry the cover open and am able to get at the hard drive which died a glorious and sudden death. 

I'd like to replace it with a Solid State Drive. Do I need any special adapters or enclosures? I would prefer at least a 1 Tb drive - are there any recommendations?

Also, I'm thinking of upping the memory from 12 to at least 16 Gb of RAM (One thing at a time). Would it be better to swap out the 4Gb Chip for an 8 Gb,  replace both with 16 GB in each slot, one 32 Gb, or is the PC maxxed out at 12 Gb?

Thanks in advance!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Your notebook should have a M.2 slot that supports a NVMe SSD, which is much faster than SATA.

Below is the link to the service manual.  The supported drive types can be found in chapter 1.

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c06525445

Solid-state drive:
For use only on computer models with model numbers 15-cc1xx and 15-cc6xx:
● 512-GB, 2280, Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe), Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)
solid-state drive
● 256-GB, 2280, PCIe, NVMe solid-state drive

You can install a larger capacity SSD.  That is just what HP offered in the model series.

You can install up to 2 x 16 GB of memory in your notebook.

This would be a compatible 32 GB memory kit.

https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/ct2k16g4sfd824a/ct15314091

Compatible 1 TB NVMe drives...P5 has faster read/write speeds than the P2.

https://www.crucial.com/ssd/p5/ct1000p5ssd8/ct18148685

https://www.crucial.com/ssd/p2/ct1000p2ssd8/ct17269556

You should just need a screw to secure the M.2 SSD to the standoff.

[StinkingBadger]

Thank You!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.