I have planned on using a Samsung 870 EVO 2TB. It is of course 2.5" and does not come with an adaptive carrier. The computer was made in 2009 when 3.5" SSDs ruled. I see some adaptive carriers for sale, but it seems to me that they are for putting a smaller disc into a drive bay. Would an adaptive carrier be needed for a boot disc? I will have the work done at a shop, and I would like to take them everything they need to do the work so I won't miss the computer for very long.
HP does not have very much helpful documentation for this computer any more. I see that in some computers the boot drive isn't really in a bay, it just plugs in and is somewhat cradled on the motherboard. I hope one of your readers know how the inside of mine is laid out.
I do not plan to keep the current boot drive in the computer since it was installed in 2016 and I am replacing it because sometimes the computer is shutting down due to "memory management".
HP does not have very much helpful documentation for this computer any more. I see that in some computers the boot drive isn't really in a bay, it just plugs in and is somewhat cradled on the motherboard. I hope one of your readers know how the inside of mine is laid out.
I do not plan to keep the current boot drive in the computer since it was installed in 2016 and I am replacing it because sometimes the computer is shutting down due to "memory management".