Upgrading RAM and SSD/reinstalling Windows 11

[Asiong_Salonga]

Hello everyone, hope you are all fine.

I'm planning to install this parts, for an upgrade. 😅

RAM (2PCS.)(I plan to max it out to 32gb RAM)

KINGSTON 16GB DDR4 PC3200MHZ NON-ECC (KVR32S22D8/S8/16) SODIMM MEMORY

SSD

KINGSTON 500GB NV2 PCIE NVME M.2 (SNV2S/500G) Solid State Drive (Is it possible to reinstall my O.S. here and make the SATA HDD my extra storage?)

Will this installation work?

If not, I hope you will give me a suggestion.

Many Thanks.

[Huffer]

You are overshooting the mark. Memory speed is capped at -2400 speed and the NVME M.2 SSD slot supports only Generation 3.0 not 4.0. 

So the parts you wish to install would likely work but will not operate at their full designed speed. I also advise against Kingston Value RAM. It has a bad record with HP notebooks. I would suggest Crucial instead. 

Yes you can make the M.2 SSD the primary bootdisk and leave the existing HDD in the laptop as storage. You will have better luck removing the HDD during OS installation onto the M.2 SSD and only put the HDD back in when you have the SSD working as you wish. 

[Asiong_Salonga]

 

 is this okay?

Thank you so much for the time. 😊

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

Memory yes. The SSD is still a 4th gen. As I said it will work. If you are getting a good price it will run as fast as anything else you can put in.