Upgrading Pavilion 15

[Gio99]

Hello, browsing the forum, I haven't found anything enough close to my question. I own a Pavilion Power 15cb (2018), after reading the Maintenance and Service Guide, I found out that my current laptop (1 120GB SSD, 1 1TB HDD, 8GB RAM) could be upgraded to another 8GB memory (so a total of 16). But on the storage drives, the dual configuration is always SSD + HDD, this means I can't add a dual SSD? And as for last question, My RAM is a Kingston model, but I can't find the same memory stick on their website, and on Crucial Auto Scan it only gives me the kit of dual RAM, when I actually need only one. So where can I buy another compatible memory stick? My region is Italy, but I think I could find anything on Amazon, just need to be sure. Thanks in Advance, and I wish you all the best.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

According to chapter 1 of the service manual, your notebook has a M.2 slot that supports both SATA and NVMe SSD's.

HP Pavilion Power 15 Laptop PC* Model numbers: 15-cb000 – 15-cb099 Maintenance and Service GuideIMPO...

NVMe SSD's have 3x to 5x faster sequential read/write speeds than SATA SSD's have.

If you want to know if you can also replace the 2.5" mechanical hard drive with a 2.5" SSD, that would also be fine.

This would be the compatible single 8 GB Crucial memory chip for your notebook...

Crucial RAM CT8G4SFS824A 8GB DDR4 2400 MHz CL17 Memoria Laptop : Amazon.it: Informatica

[Gio99]

Thanks for the link to the RAM, I'll buy another SATA SSD, might be better than my actual HDD, this will make my laptop dual SSD. Thank you again.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

I recommend the Western Digital Blue 2.5" SSD.

They usually have the best performance for the price, at least in the USA they do.

[Gio99]

One last question before closing the topic, I was reading the manual, but there is something that throws me off:

Under SATA for HDD, it says either 1 or 2 TB, but under the (M2?) SATA SSD only 128.

Is it the restriction for the M2 slot, or it counts for the HDD SATA too? I was planning to get a San Disk Plus 1 TB SATA SSD 2.5".

Thanks again and sorry for the bothering I may cause. 

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

The drive capacities are just what Hp offered in the model series, not the max capacity supported.

You can replace the 1 TB 2.5" mechanical hard drive with a 1 TB/2 TB 2.5" SSD.