hp pavilion laptop 14-bf0xx Ssd compatibly

[Astrobrain]

Hello I was hoping to upgrade my lap top storage to a 2 or 3 Tb ssd drive. I use it for  astro photography and the 256gb is nowhere near enough for the videos I take. I have a hp pavilion laptop 14-bf0xx and I think it maybe compatible with a Internal SATA SSD M.2 2280

https://www.westerndigital.com/en-ie/products/internal-drives/wd-blue-sata-m-2-ssd

I am not very good with computers so I dont want to buy something and then it doesn't work. 

Thanking you in advance. 

Neil

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

You are right. The laptop has an M.2 slot but its for SATA 2280 M.2 only. 

M.2 slot circled in red

The M.2 SSD can be mounted in the slot circled in red or it may be in an adapter board in the hard drive bay. If that is the case, you can have both SSDs or just mount the larger one in place of the smaller one in the adapter. Performance would be the same in the adapter or in the slot directly on the motherboard. I'd keep both.  The WD Blue M.2 you linked would be a good choice. You will find 2 TB in most shopping sites and then if you look hard enough and are willing to spend the significant cash it will take, you can get a 4 TB. No such thing as a 3 TB. 

Post back with any more questions and please accept as solution if this is the info you needed. 

[Astrobrain]

Thank you very much. Yes that info was exactly what I needed. I will probably go ahead and get the 2tb one as I am sure it will be enough for a nights imaging. 

I have one more question if that is ok. I have read that Nvme drives are faster than sata ones. Is there much of a difference and would my laptop accept a nvme drive? 

Thank you again for your help. 

Neil

[Huffer]

NVME is much faster...like 4 or 5 times BUT your laptop cannot use one. A SATA SSD either 2.5 inch or M.2 is still much, much faster than a hard drive. Not just top transfer speed but latency (response time) is much, much better. I would say the SATA SSD is a bigger improvement over a mechanical hard drive than an NVME is over a SATA SSD. 

If this is the info you needed please accept as solution. 

[Astrobrain]

Thank you very much for your help. My laptop does actually have a ssd drive but it only has 256gb which is nowhere near enough for what I need to use it for. Once the drive is as quick as the current one that Is on it I am sure it will be just fine. I will order that 2tb drive today. Thank you again for your help. 

Neil. 

[Astrobrain]

Just one more thing. Would this "nand" version fit the laptop and is it better than the non nand one? 

https://www.techinn.com/en/wd-blue-3d-nand-sata-wds200t2b0b-2tb-m.2-hard-drive/137876307/p?utm_sourc...

[Huffer]

I think they are the same device with different labels. If you look at the product numbers in the link for the first one you mentioned its the same as the second one you asked about. 

[Astrobrain]

Yea I thought that might be the case. Ill order one and I am looking forward to imaging without having to delete videos only an hour old. Thank you for your help. That saved me a lot of time. 

Neil