Upgrade options

[chrisinwash]

I recently purchased a hp envy 15 bp152 and I would like to upgrade the memory and hard drive. I scan the system on crucial's website and it shows that I can upgrade to 16 gb with one slot. It also shows that I can add a NAND M.2 type 2280 internal SSD. Can I add this on top of a normal SSD drive? With doing these upgrades does anything remove the Optane memory that the laptop already comes with?  It si great already I'm just trying to tweak it a bit. Thanks.

[banhien]

@chrisinwash 

Its specs does not shows it has Optane memory

    https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c06082047

Yes, you can add M.2 SSD as Crucial says. Its manual

       http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05527167.pdf

Regards.

[chrisinwash]

Thank you for your quick answer. When I click on the Intel Rapid Storage Technology icon it shows 932 gb as my hard drive and 13 gb for the optane. If I wanted to add a M.2 chip would that mean that the 500gb or 1tb I have installed would be used as the optane memory or is there a separate slot for the M.2 to be inserted into? Thank you.

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

You have a 1 TB mechanical hard drive and then also a 16 gig Optane module that "accelerates" the hard drive. The Optane module occupies the M.2 slot so you can have either/or. An Optane module is nothing more than a very small capacity NVME M.2 SSD. So if you have Optane it means you can have a PCIe/NVME M.2 SSD such as the Samsung 970 Evo or Evo Plus (my recommendation). To help you decide, a SATA 2.5 inch or M.2 SSD will register about 550 Mbps on data read operations, a hard drive accelerated by an Optane module will get about 1000-1200 Mbps and an NVME M.2 will register about 3200. If you are going to remove the Optane you need to "deaccelerate" the hard drive first using the Intel Rapid Storage app shown in your picture to disable Optane. 

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

[chrisinwash]

So I shouldn't have any issue swapping out the mechanical harddrive with a ssd one and increase the RAM from 4 gb to the max of 16. Would it be worth while I have the laptop open to upgrade the optane to 32gb? It's a beautiful laptop that I got at a really cheap price but I'd like to extend its lifespan. Thank you for the information.

[Huffer]

A 32 gig Optane will not perform any better then a 16 gig one so don't do that. You can accelerate a 2.5 inch SATA SSD with an Optane module. Not sure how much faster it would actually make it but you can do that. Max memory is actually 32 gigs. 

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