Will this Samsung SSD drive work on my laptop?

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Hi,

I have a Power Pavilion 15 Cb061-TX and am looking to upgrade the original  (C: drive) 128Gb SSD drive a LITEON CA1-8D128-HP (http://www.liteonssd.com/m/Products/product.php?alias=CA1-NVME-M2-SERIES) to a Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 500GB (https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/ssd-970-evo-plus-nvme-m-2-500...).

Could someone tell me if this Samsung SSD is compatible with my laptop so I can go ahead with the upgrade?

Thanks.

[Photoray002 · Accepted solution]

Hello @adfc 

Yes, that NVMe M.2 drive is compatible as well as a Sata M.2 drive.

The only caveat is that you probably wont get the full rated speed of 3x4 as advertised by samsung. Because the motherboard is compatible with both types, 2 PCIe lanes are swapped to make it compatible for Sata. But the NVMe drive will still be faster than Sata.

You should open the case and make sure the M.2 port is soldered to the motherboard first. Sometimes on rare occasion, the port might be left off if the model was shipped with only an HDD installed.

Your manual... http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05493193

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Hi Photoray002,

Thank you for your detailed explanation.

I will go ahead with the upgrade, main goal is more space on the OS drive, not to worried about performance gains (if they happen, even better of course 🙂 ).

Re checking the M.2 port, my laptop has 2 "disks" so I'm probably on the safe side there. 🙂

Again, thank you.

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