m.2 SSD Upgrade to my HP Pavilion 15 Gaming Laptop

[Castlegate15]

I have a HP Pavilion 15 Gaming laptop that came with a 1TB HDD purchased last November. I want to retain this HDD and install an M.2 SSD but I am not sure whether I have "B" or "M" key socket on my motherboard for a M.2 SSD? Will a Samsung 970 EVO NVMe M.2 SSD 250 k work on my laptop? Or can you please recommend an alternative that will work. 

If I use my laptop for browsing the internet, e-mails, use MS office software suite and Gaming will I benefit greatly if I chose a NVMe over SATA or I would benefit with a bigger capacity SATA SSD instead?

[visruth · Accepted solution]

Manual: http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05985643

Specs: https://support.hp.com/in-en/document/c06108886

See Page 45 in Manual. You can put in a M.2 2280 SSD, either SATA-3 or PCIe NVMe. "B" or "M" type keys don't matter, both will be compatible. I'll go for PCIe NVMe considering the major enhancement in overall performance, even though SATA is more than enough for the type of work you're doing.

Samsung 970 EVO NVMe M.2 SSD is a good one, should work.

You can put upto 1 or 2TB. You can keep currently present hard drive for storage alone and make M.2 SSD boot drive.

Gaming is more dependent on graphics, RAM, which is pretty good in your notebook. So M.2 SSD would be a good upgrade in this notebook.