upgrading ssd from optane drive

[lakhan_5]

hey there!

as my notebook has started to act a bit slow so i decided to give it a ssd upgrade.so i wanted to know whether my notebook supports the pcie ssd or not or rather i have to settle for sata.

i m gonna replace the optane drive and put ssd
(NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Internal Solid State Drive)

in there and keep the 1 tb hard disk as it is .
can anybody help me with this.

HP Pavilion x360 Convertible 14-cd0055tx

system board 8487 72.23

system bias F.34

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Optane memory needs a M.2 port that supports NVMe, so you can remove the Optane memory and install a NVMe M.2 SSD in its place.

Below is the link to the service manual.

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c06140017

Chapter 1 has the supported drive types.

[lakhan_5]

hey paul,

thanks for the ans. but i just wanted to ask one more thing you know just to be sure that what m gonna order is compatible with my notebook as i dont know much about these.

so here's the optane drive that is currently running

it has 2 "keyed or B+M keyed(what i found from internet).

while the one m interested in has only "1 key or M keyed"

 so will these m keyed will fit in the b+m keyed?
or do i have to purchase specifically that b+m keyed?

it will be a great help to me thanks.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

That is very surprising that is has two notches like a SATA SSD does.

But here are the specs for an Intel Optane memory module.  As you can see from the specs, it is NVMe, even though it has two notches.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1392905-REG/intel_mempek1j032ga01_optane_32gb_ssd_pci.html/ov...

The NVMe drive in your screenshot is what you want.  I do not know of any NVMe SSD's that have two notches.

One notch.

[lakhan_5]

So the 1 notch ssd will work or not on this particular laptop?

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Yes.

The one notch NVMe SSD will work according to the manual.

[lakhan_5]

Thanks a ton buddy 👍

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Anytime.

Glad to have been of assistance.

Please post back and let us know how your SSD upgrade project went.