Question Changing the HDD to an NVMe SSD on HP Probook 650 G2 ?

[Zsombor.Molnar]

Hello,

I would like to change a laptop HDD to Nvme SSD
Laptop: HP Probook 650 g2
Motherboard HP 80FD

It has an M.2 slot under the HDD as you can see here

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kBa314AV_E

The motherboard obviously has an M.2 SSD slot:

Also the page of the laptop says that it's able to get the laptop with nvme ssd: here

As ive seen it is PCIe 3.0 so I ive found a pretty cost effective older type of Nvme SSD what is available at a local store it is:

https://www.adata.com/us/consumer/solid-state-drives-LEGEND-710

One question: Do HP sell notebooks where the M.2 slot is somehow disabled through hardware or software? Anyone have experience with it?

 

[axleyzena]

In my experience with laptops since 2009, I haven't encountered a "disabled" slot. There are some cases where a laptop will not boot from a certain type of storage (because of early implementation), but it doesn't appear to be your case according to the video below:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_aiHZWXbhM

 

[Zsombor.Molnar]

In my experience with laptops since 2009, I haven't encountered a "disabled" slot. There are some cases where a laptop will not boot from a certain type of storage (because of early implementation), but it doesn't appear to be your case according to the video below:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_aiHZWXbhM

Thank you for your answer. I contacted local HP support aswell and It seems it supports NVME SSD indeed. I will change the drives at on friday hopefully everything will go well.

 

[ouss_7]

I have the same device, please tell me your result, because I want to add nvme as well