Upgrading SSD in HP Envy 17-cw0005na laptop

[AnC4444]

Hello, I'm considering buying the HP Envy 17 but it only has 1tb SSD which unfortunately is not enough for me and there is not a second SSD slot available. I spoke to HP customer services who said it can only be upgraded to 2tb but I really need at least 4tb. Is this possible, has anyone successfully done this? I'm not too tech savvy so what will happen if I swap in a 4tb ssd? Will it just not work or will it somehow shorten the life span of the laptop? The manual is not at all clear about storage limits, it just gives replacement part numbers of their own 512gb and 1tb ssd for engineers to change. Thanks so much in advance for all help.

[banhien]

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@AnC4444 wrote:

...  The manual is not at all clear about storage limits,

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@AnC4444 

The limit is much higher but physically vendors can squeeze 2TB on a physical size of standard M.2 SSD's on notebooks. I know some vendors now have 4TB drives but I don't know how good, bad or ugly they are. If you wish, you can try.

To be honest, I don't want to keep huge storage on notebooks what if they failed ! I keep all my files/data outside machines using NAS.

Regards.

[AnC4444]

Banhien I also back up all data to 3 external hard drives, I am v paranoid about any of my drives dying! However, for ease of use I do want access to all photos and videos at the touch of a button (or click of a mouse) hence the storage requirement. So if I understand correctly, the 2tb limit is more to do with the physical limitations of ssds rather than any system limitations?