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‎12-18-2019 02:39 PM

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Product: HP Notebook - 17-bs100na
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I have read conflicting advice about upgrading my laptop.  What I would like to do is to add an SSD to my laptop to be used by the operating system and applications, retaining the 2 Tb hard disk for user files.  The Crucial website indicates that the only SSD upgrade is by replacing the existing HD, however one HP Forum item implies that an SSD can be added.   There is also conflicting advice as to whether an HP 17-bs100na has PCIe, or whether it is only SATA .  Any advice would be welcome.

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‎12-18-2019 03:05 PM

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Hi:

 

According to the service manual at the link below, chapter 1, there is support for SATA M.2 SSD's.

 

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05963248

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‎12-18-2019 03:39 PM

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Thank you for that.  My interpretation of that is that on this range of laptops SSD and HD were options, but that you can't have both.  Is that the way you read itl?

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‎12-18-2019 04:02 PM

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You're very welcome.

 

I'm thinking you can have both, but you may run into issues if you leave the OS on the mechanical hard drive.

 

I am concerned that W10 will always try to boot from the HDD first.

 

If you look at chapter 1 of the manual, there is this configuration listed...

 

Hard drive + solid-state drive configurations:


1-TB, 5400-rpm, 9.5-mm hard drive + 128-GB M.2 SATA-3 solid-state drive

 

 

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