Nvme? Or SATA

[kixsalem]

Hi, Community, Does the Hp pavilion 15-cs0082cl support NVMe? It also comes with a 16GB intel optane SSD, that has NVMe written on it, I want to add a 512GB SSD (NVMe) maybe the Samsung EvO or another! Please, Does it support it?

And if “Yes”, Is there anything I need to know or do, before adding it?? And also, Can I start from where I stop with my HDD without having to buy a new Windows OS? 

[NonSequitur777]

@kixsalem,

Welcome to our HP User Forum!

[EDIT:] Your HP Pavilion 15-cs0082cl (4QN59UA) is compatible with PCIe NVMe Gen 3 or 4 M.2 SSDs and SATA SSDs as per: https://www.crucial.com/compatible-upgrade-for/hp---compaq/pavilion-15-cs0082cl.

Hope this was helpful.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[NonSequitur777]

@kixsalem,

Edited my previous response.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi, @kixsalem 

Just note that if you buy a PCIe Gen 4 SSD, it will not run at its maximum advertised read/write speeds, because your notebook's M.2 slot is only PCIe Gen 3.

Intel Core i78550U Processor 8M Cache up to 4.00 GHz Product Specifications

PCI Express Revision 3.0

Also note that there is a specific procedure to disable the Intel Optane memory in the Intel RST software and if applicable in the BIOS.

See the last two sections of the link below for how do disable the Intel Optane memory before removing it.

HP PCs - Installing and Using Intel Optane | HP® Customer Support

[NonSequitur777]

@Paul_Tikkanen,

You are quite correct, of course.  It is just that in my recent experience when I changed out a Gen 3.0 PCIe NVMe SSD (Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD 1TB, M.2 PCIe NVMe Gen 3.0) for a Gen 4.0 PCIe SSD (Samsung 980 PRO SSD 2TB, M.2 PCIe NVMe Gen 4.0) on my HP EliteDesk 800 G3 SFF (PCIe Gen 3.0), I obtained my highest NVMe SSD IOPS, Read/Writes scores ever:

Reference: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/53395275

[EDIT:] Incidentally, the Samsung 980 PRO SSD was also listed as one of the "Best PCIe NVMe drives for HP EliteDesk 800 G3 SFF storage upgrade:" here: https://www.hardware-corner.net/desktop-models/HP-EliteDesk-800-G3-SFF/.

Anyway, it would certainly also be a valid argument that spending the extra ca$h for relatively little gains in already blistering SSD speed performances, is not worth-it: and you would be right again.

But for those who want to go where few or any have gone before, it is kind of pleasing to see any performances increases.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777