does my laptop motherboard support ssd m.2 or nvme ssd?

[Ali-Alyoussef]

HP Notebook - 15-r262ne  - core i7 5500u , 8gb ram , 1tb HDD , NVidia 820m.

Hello everyone,

I want to upgrade the performance of my laptop by adding SSD and keeping the old HDD at the same time.

I can remove the DVD driver and put the added SSD in its place,  I searched about it and found that some laptop already have a dedicated slot or socket for SSD.

how to know if my laptop has the dedicated slot (SSD m.2 ,  SSD NVME) or it doesn't have one.

I searched a lot on in my laptop manuals and the HP website.

Is there any way to know without disassembling the device?

thank you.

[iomare · Accepted solution]

Hi,

It does not have an M2 slot.

I would just replace the Hard Drive with a 2.5" SATA3 SSD of your preferred brand and capacity.

If you do decide to keep the old drive and place it in a caddy in the DVD slot, you should place the hard drive in it and put the SSD where the Hard Drive was.

It will give a good boost to the everyday performance.

Service manual

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04409502.pdf

Hope it helps,

David

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