compatible ssd for hp nc6400

[mitse]

I intend to upgrade my laptop somehow and I had read that a new ssd is a nice choice.

what kind of ssd is compatible with hp nc6400  sata I ?

Is  the appropriate choice or not  ?

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

I don't think is is a good idea to install a SSD in a nc6400.

Below are two threads as to why I feel that way.

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-HP-ProBook-EliteBook/Problem-installing-OpSys-on-nc6400-with-n...

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-HP-ProBook-EliteBook/Only-The-First-10-GB-of-my-New-SSD-Is-Rec...

Now if you insist on trying, then I recommend you get an Intel drive like the 335 series.

[KBystrak]

I recently tried 5 different SSD drives in a HP/Compaq nc6400.   There was only 1 that worked.  It was a 64GB model from ADATA.   ADATA Premier Pro SP600 ASP600S3-64GM-C 2.5" 64GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD).   It works like a champ and the system is running windows 7 x86 w/SP1.   It is very fast with the SSD.   

I know it is probably too late for you since your post was a long time ago.  However, this is the top hit in google when you search for the nc6400 and SSD.   I thought maybe someone else might find this info useful.    

I can confirm the Samsung 840, Intel 335, Kingston 300V, and Crucial m500 do not work.

[ParamountDE]

For everyone who still might be interested in this topic…

I’m still using my 6 year old NC6400 on a daily base (using Win XP) and recently, I upgraded the system with a Samsung 500GB 840 Evo SSD Drive.

Beside, that I read about problems with SSD in such old system using Win XP, I gave it a try and it worked immediately without any Problem. There was only one topic that required a bit more work and this was with a non-working Samsung Magician Software.

The SSD performance is lower than theoretically possible but far better than the SATA Drive I used before.

There was no special preparation necessary to get it worked.

I created two partitions in the SSD drive and as for every SSD Drive I paid attention to get the partitions aligned correctly (I used the latest version of gparted to get this done – there are plenty of information on the web how to check the alignment of SSD-drives)

Here is the configuration of the System:

            NC 6400, 4GB Memory (only 3.36GB available for Windows)

         latest Firmware-Version (don’t know the Version out of my head, but it is out for several years now)

            Win XP prof., SP3

            SATA Driver:

Initially I used the Intel SATA AHCI Controller Driver (sp32478) which I already used for the old HD-Drive

I used the SW provided by Samsung to copy both partitions from my HD-Drive to the new SSD using an USB Adapter cable.

After this was done, I replaced the HDD with the SSD and voila – the system booted without any problem. Win XP did “some work” during the boot process (I don’t know what Windows did) but it came up finally and everything worked fine.

I used the guidelines found on the internet about using SSD in combination with Win XP but this only to disable the Win XP Prefetch modes.

The only drawback was, that the original Samsung Magician SW 4.0 did not recognized the installed AHCI – Driver.

However, the latest Version 4.5 solved that problem also and after I downloaded/a newer Version of the Intel AHCI Driver (82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller Driver v7.0.0.1020) everything is working perfectly.

I don’t know, if my configuration will work with all SSD drives available on the market today (Jan. 2015) but as I haven’t done anything special (beside the driver update to get the Samsung SW running), other SSD drives might work as well.  At least I can confirm, that the Samsung 840 Evo IS working.

Performance Benchmark using Samsung SW:

    Sequential Read: 143 MB/s,  Sequential Write: 125 MB/s,

    Random Read: 26370 IOPS,  Random Write: 22851 IOPS

Hope this information will help all folks, still using this series of NB and interested to speedup the system.