What kind of M.2 SSD is supported for ENVY x360 15t-w100 L8R69AV laptop

[Alex_Wu]

Hi everyone.

There is a question for my HP laptop ENVY x360 15t-w100 L8R69AV which just bought 2-3 years ago.

Core i7 + 16GB RAM + 1TB HDD. Since it getting slower and slower and most of time with I/O HDD busy and I would like to upgrade it but just found the service was expired on 2017 and it looks like this model is also out of market as well.

I couldn't get a right spec manual to know what kind of M.2 SSD it is supporting since it only shows it supports a M.2 SSD drive.

Also couldn't find the part number 813081-001 for the 256G SSD was mentioned in the manual.

I tried to open the panel to check it out what kind of socket in it.... and found it as follows:

Since the left side small one is 5 pins, so I guess this notebook supports M key SSD,

but I am not sure if it is supported the SATA or PCIe/NVMe type of M.2 SSD.

Is this M.2 SSD can working together with current existing regular SATA 1TB HDD?

What kind of current popular brand/model of M.2 SSD it supports?

(I'd prefer if it supports 512GB or 1TB M.2 SSD. for example: Micron Crucial MX500 1TB M.2 2280 SATAⅢ SSD?)

Very very appriciate if there is any one know it and can help to answer this question?

Thanks a lot.

[Raj1788]

@Alex_Wu

I see you need help in upgrading the SSD, on HP ENVY x360 - 15t-w100 notebook. Don't worry as I have a few suggestions which should help you.

After reading your post, I did go through the Maintenance and Service guide of your product and found that your computer supports M.2 SATA-3 (NGFF).

See the below configurations

Refer to Page-2 Chapter-1 in the Maintenance and Service Guide.

Keep me posted, how it goes!

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Have a great day!

Cheers:)

[Studio1059]

Hi Alex. I have the exact same laptop model and going through the same issue. I’m attempting to use the HP Cloud Recovery Tool but when I enter the product ID L8R69AV it tells me the product ID is invalid. By any chance does your label show anything after these seven digits? Like #ABA or something like that?

Many thanks and apologies for hijacking your thread 🙂

[Alex_Wu]

Hi @Studio1059:

Sorry for I just come back from out of town.

This is what I can get from my HP laptop:

Any suggestion?

Sincerely,

Alex

[Studio1059 · Accepted solution]

Thanks so much for sharing that Alex. Looks like we both have the same part number with no suffix. I get the impression then that we’re not worthy of the HP Cloud Recovery Tool. Let this be a warning to all to make sure you create a bootable USB stick before anything bad happens to your main drive that contains the files to do that. I ended up having to a completely fresh install of Windows.

I ended up installing an $89 1tb SATA M.2 SSD from a company called Micron on Amazon. So far seems to be working great. I tried the 970 Evo Plus first not realizing that the port would not accept NVME. The Micron was more than half the price so even though I won’t have the blistering speed of the Nvme, it’s still a very noticeable step up from the 5400rpm drive that went bad. 

[Alex_Wu]

Hi Studio1059:

Thank you so much all what you did for me.

It sounds great that you installed a Micron 1TB SATA M,2 SSD successfully for your laptop and I will going to buy it to try.

May I know is that SSD same as what I found from internet "Micron Crucial MX500 1TB M.2 2280 SATA3" as follows picture?

if it is the right one, I will buy it and try it from my laptop and let you know what the result is ASAP.

anyway, big thanks.

Alex

[Alex_Wu]

Hi Raj1788 and Studio1059:

Thank you for all your help and finally I bought the Micron crucial MX500 1TB SATA M.2 2280SS SSD and working great!

Another trick for making this M.2 SSD can work with original HDD well is :

before you install the new Windows into the new M.2 SSD, you have to remove the original HDD first.

The reason is HP laptop BIOS can only always get the original HDD's active partition for booting,

so you won't let the added new M.2 SSD active Windows partition boot first.

You take out the HDD and installing the new Windows in M.2 SSD, let it boot successfully first,

the turn it off and put the HDD in, all issue will be gone!!

Hope this trick can help all HP Envy x360 users.

Alex Wu