Upgrade for 250gb ssd with 2-TB hdd

[souravhawx007]

Sir I'm having a HP Pavilion cc-132-tx notebook pc with 2-TB hdd, can I upgrade it with an additional 250 gb Samsung 860 evo series m.2 ssd ??

[Huffer]

Yes it is. Here is the Service Manual:

Manual

M.2 slot circled in red

You can install the best technology, a PCIe/NVME M.2 SSD in the slot circled in red above. Samsung Evo 970 M.2 is the industry leader and recommended. "How to" starts on p. 37 of the Manual. 

Post back with any questions and please accept as solution if its the info you needed. 

[souravhawx007]

Sir first of all thanks a lot for your generous and quick reply, but on the very same manual in page number 2 its given that for dual storage option only 128-GB ssd will be installed for 2-TB hdd and 250-GB can't be installed. And i'm currently having a 2-TB hdd.

[Huffer]

The Manual does not list what CAN BE installed only the configurations offered from the factory. You can install any capacity M.2 SSD you wish and it will work. 

[souravhawx007]

Sir can  I use a  Samsung 860 EVO Series 250GB M.2 SATA  V-NAND Internal Solid State Drive (MZ-N6E250BW) for the notebook cc-132tx instead of samsung 960 evo.?

[Huffer]

Yes but understand the performance (data read speed) will be about 25% as good. Still much faster than a mechanical hard drive, however. The extra price of an NVME disk (which is not that much) is so worth it. 

[souravhawx007]

Sir actually my question was can i able to use a samsung  860 evo m.2 sata v-nand ssd? And how is it different from the samsung 970 nvme?

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

Yes you can use the Samsung 860 M.2. Its SATA. Max transfer speed on SATA is about 550 mbps. The 970 is an NVME. Max transfer speed is something like 3200 mbps. The same M.2 slot on this laptop we are discussing can accept EITHER a SATA M.2 or an NVME M.2. 

NVME usually has a 2-prong "M" key interface:

Samsung 970 Evo M.2

860 Evo

SATA M.2 SSDs tend to have a 3-prong "B + M" keyed connector.

We could go into a long-winded dissertation on the difference between NVME and SATA interface but as far as a consumer is concerned the difference is speed, speed, speed. Not all laptops M.2 slots can accept an NVME M.2; some are SATA only and in my opinion, if you have the chance you should have an NVME M.2 in any computer you are using. I could get all poetic about what a great user experience it enables. 

Post back with any more questions but please accept as solution if this is the info you needed. 

[souravhawx007]

Thanks a lot Sir, for your replies. And true support.