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‎10-07-2024 02:50 AM

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Product: HP Pavilion Gaming - 15-ec0101ax
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 11

I have hp pavilion 15-ec0101ax ryzen5 quad core 3550h with 1 tb hard drive. I want to upgrade to solid drive. can my system supports WD BLUE SN 580 PCLE GEN 4 NVME SSD 500 GB card ?

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‎10-07-2024 07:14 AM - edited ‎10-07-2024 07:14 AM

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Yes, your notebook can support that model drive, but since the M.2 SSD slot is only PCIe Gen 3.0 the WD BLUE SN580 will not run at its maximum advertised read/write speeds from the Gen 3.0 SSD slot.

 

This table shows the maximum transfer speeds each PCIe generation can support:

 

PCIe Speeds and Limitations | Crucial.com

 

Below is the link to the service manual:

 

Maintenance and Service Guide HP Pavilion Gaming 15 Laptop PC

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