mother board 836b maximum capacity SSD supported

[realoptim]

I have HP Pavilion 15-cb011ur with 836b motherboard inside and 128 Gb SSD connected via PCIe 3.0 x4. I would replace my SSD on 1 Tb SSD via PCIe 3.0 x4. Will it work or there is some limit on supported SSD capacity? 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Chapter 1 of the service manual indicates that HP offered NVMe SSD's up to 256 GB in the model series.

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05493193.pdf?cjdata=MXxOfDB8WXww&utm_medium=af&utm_source=cj&u... 

That is usually just what HP offered, not the maximum capacity supported.

Bur unfortunately, there is no way to exactly know how large a capacity NVMe SSD your notebook can support.

The Crucial SSD report for the model series indicates that they sell NVMe SSD's up to 4 TB.

https://www.crucial.com/scanview/56C61C0231D926C3

[realoptim]

Thanks a lot for such detailed answer. Is any info about PCIe supported standarts at my laptop model? Now I have 128 Gb PCIe 3.0 x4 already installed at my laptop. I planned to change it on 1 Tb SSD PCIe 3.0 x4. But now I have idea that it would be better for perfomance to install 512 Gb SSD PCIe 4.0 x4 for the same money.

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

You're very welcome.

The PCIe 4x4 SSD will work fine, but it will not run at its maximum advertised read/write speeds from your notebook's PCIe Gen 3.0 slot.

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

https://www.crucial.com/support/articles-faq-ssd/pcie-speeds-limitations