SSD Support for HP Laptop - 15s-gr0006au

[saumyar1]

I am planning to upgrade to SSD. I want to know which type of SSD my laptop HP Laptop - 15s-gr0006au support.

SATA, M.2 NVMe/ PCI Express x4. Also please mention swich M,B or M&B.

Also will it support PCIe 4.0 3D NAND NVMe m.2 and can it use it to the fullest ?

Also it will be helpful if anyone can give a specific product of 500GB which can be optimally used for this laptop.

Thanks in advance.

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Since your notebook has an AMD Ryzen™ 3 3250U processor, the M.2 slot supports NVMe SSD's.

PCIe Gen 3.  A PCIe Gen 4 would work but only at the Gen 3 speeds.

See chapter 1 of the service manual for the supported drive types.

Maintenance and Service Guide (hp.com)

[saumyar1]

Thank you for a quick reply.
So basically 4th gen PCIe will be useless for me.

If I am not wrong PCIe NVME will be with M switch.
It will be really helpful if you can suggest me a good product Samsung, WD or Crucial for 500 gb ssd.

Also if I go for a HDD+SSD setup, I hope it wont cause any issue for 500GB SSD.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Yes, a Gen 4 NVMe SSD would not benefit you in that notebook.

I wouldn't buy one unless you planned on transferring it to a newer desktop or notebook PC that had a PCIe Gen 4 NVMe slot.

I recommend the Samsung 980 (not Pro)  SSD:

Amazon.in: Buy Samsung 980 500GB Up to 3,500 MB/s PCIe 3.0 NVMe M.2 (2280) Internal Solid State Driv...

Or the WD Blue SN 570:

Amazon.in: Buy WD Blue™ SN570 NVMe™ 500GB SSD, Upto 3,500 MB/s Read, with Free 1 Month Adobe Creativ...

Either drive should work fine with the 2.5"drive for storage.

But I recommend that you temporarily disconnect the 2.5" drive so that the Windows boot manager switches to the SSD, because the PC will always want to boot from the 2.5" drive first if there is an operating system on it.

Loosely put your notebook back together until you have everything working.

You can see this discussion for what normally happens if you don't.

(1) Solved: Re: hp 17-cn0053 win 11 make new ssd boot drive - HP Support Community - 8424179

[saumyar1]

Thanks a lot for the product suggestion.

Anyway I am going to transfer the OS from HDD to the SSD and format the HDD. 
Thanks for your guidance.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Anytime.

Glad to have been of assistance.