Question Which SDD/NVMe to buy for a HP Pavilio x360

[levm38ftw]

My wife has an HP Pavilio x360 14 inches and its way too slow now, I would like to replace the hard disk.

I took a picture of the hard disk and it has a special part number which I suppose is HP manufactured.

My question is:
Can I replace with any nvme disk? or which specifications do I need? I would like to buy a 1TB but as fast as possible, and I suppose I Dont need to buy that specific part number from HP itself.

 

[Lafong]

Do you have any clue as to why the machine is slow?

It might be due to a nearly full drive. How much remaining space does it have?

Or slowness could be for a totally different reason.


Here is the components list; not very revealing. I can't tell if it is a 2280 SSD or not.

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06519297

I'd strongly suspect a 1 TB NVMe of the same dimensions would be fine, but you might wait for confirmation.

 

[levm38ftw]

yes the SDD is full, its only 256gb and thats why I want to change it.

 

[Lafong]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/144286686069

Certainly appears to be an ordinary M.2 2280 NVMe drive.

HP can do some weird proprietary stuff, but I'd expect a 1 TB drive would be OK.

Several years old, most likely PCIe 3.0; no reason to go with 4.0

 

[levm38ftw]

what speed should I look for? I see from 3000 mb/s to 7000!

https://www.amazon.fr/s?k=M.2+2280+...=m.2+2280+nvme+drive,aps,472&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

 

[Lafong]

I wouldn't buy on the basis of alleged speeds from a specifications sheet.

I'd probably try to stick with Crucial, Samsung, or Western Digital. Maybe Solidigm.

But....you can have a bad experience with any and you might not be able to tell the difference between them if they are not outright defective.

I'd probably confirm that the drive has a DRAM cache. Some do not.

No reason to go with PCIe 4.0. A 4.0 drive will run at 3.0 speeds on that laptop.

But no harm done with 4.0; you might have more choices if you include both 3.0 and 4.0 and could later use the 4.0 speed on some other computer.

 

[levm38ftw]

How did you know that its actually a 2280? I cant see that in the parts list.

 

[Lafong]

M.2 drives are 22 wide......that is 22 millimeters.

They come in varying lengths; from I think 30, on up to 80; again that is millimeters.

2280 is 22 wide and 80 long.

a 2230 would be nearly square and is rarely seen.

2280 is the most common size and can hold more NAND.

Nearly 4 times as long as it is wide. Similar to a common stick of chewing gum.

You can also cross check that other number on the drive...PM951 or whatever it is. See the picture in post 4.