SSD upgrade

[Bololoco]

I'm a hobbyist photographer with an ageing Elitebook 8470p, 12gb 1033mhz ram and a 500gb HDD..

My current photographic interest is in stitching together large panoramas. My camera is an Olympus E-M1X that spits out 20mb RAW files and I regularly stitch together 50+ pictures and unsurprisingly, it tends to slow down to a crawl when performing such large operations, partly because of the small amount of ram and partly because I am using a HDD

I have read the upgrade options, which state that this particular Elitebook can only take a 240gb SSD, so i'm wondering whether that's a hard fact or whether I can actually install a much larger SSD.

Also, does anyone know if threre are any tweaks I can make to the OS or the registry that will ease the bottleneck I am experiencing when crunching these large files?

My photo editing app is Affinity Photo.

[banhien]

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@Bololoco wrote:

... I have read the upgrade options, which state that this particular Elitebook can only take a 240gb SSD, so i'm wondering whether that's a hard fact or whether I can actually install a much larger SSD.

@Bololoco 

Where đi you get that information ? it supports much larger (capacity) using 2.5" SSD's as HDD's. You can use 1TB or 2TB such as

             https://www.samsung.com/au/memory-storage/sata-ssd/870-evo-1tb-sata-3-2-5-ssd-mz-77e1t0bw/

Regards.

[Bololoco]

Here  https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebooks-Archive-Read-Only/8470p-replace-HD-with-SSD-max-size-possibl....

Although I did get it slightly wrong and that post says that the maximum hard drive is 256gb.

I should have said that I have the i5 version of the HP 8470p if that makes a difference?

I really would like to put in a 2tb drive though.

[banhien]

@Bololoco 

That user's problem was NOT with the size of the SSD, he/she had problem with USB 3 drivers. That could be due to the his/her boot able device itself.

I normally

• Buy  new 2TB SSD,
• Connect it to an external HDD enclosure,
• Connect new SSD (in its enclosure) to USB port,
• Clone old HDD to new SSD,
• Swap old HDD and new SSD and use old HDD as an external drive

Regards.

[Bololoco]

So does that mean I could install a 4tb SSD into my 8470p?

[banhien]

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@Bololoco wrote:

So does that mean I could install a 4tb SSD into my 8470p?

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@Bololoco 

I have not tested 4TB therefore I can't say how good, bad, ugly it is. Very safe to use 2TB.

Regards.

[Bololoco]

Ok, well this is just a stop gap until I decide to completely upgrade my laptop, so i'll make do with a 2tb drive until then.

Thanks for the help