[SOLVED] Which SSD upgrade for HP 250 G6 1WY59EA#ABU?

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Hi, a 250gb ssd is not enough anymore and i'd like to upgrade to 1tb, however im not sure what is suitable because I bought a "Crucial MX500 1 TB CT1000MX500SSD4-Up to 560 MB/s (3D NAND, SATA, M.2 Type 2280SS, Internal SSD) m+b" and I dont know if it's faulty or it just doesn't fit my laptop because it keeps crashing my laptop when I connect it via usb or try and put it into the laptop and boot from usb with my current ssd. P.S. it gets super duper hot within a minute as well, don't think thats healthy.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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super92 said:
Hi, a 250gb ssd is not enough anymore and i'd like to upgrade to 1tb, however im not sure what is suitable because I bought a "Crucial MX500 1 TB CT1000MX500SSD4-Up to 560 MB/s (3D NAND, SATA, M.2 Type 2280SS, Internal SSD) m+b" and I dont know if it's faulty or it just doesn't fit my laptop because it keeps crashing my laptop when I connect it via usb or try and put it into the laptop and boot from usb with my current ssd. P.S. it gets super duper hot within a minute as well, don't think thats healthy.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
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Does it crash if you just connect the M.2 by itself?
There is more than one version of the HP 250 G6 model and I was working on one that would not work with both, 2.5 SSD and M.2 SSD...
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super92 said:
Hi, a 250gb ssd is not enough anymore and i'd like to upgrade to 1tb, however im not sure what is suitable because I bought a "Crucial MX500 1 TB CT1000MX500SSD4-Up to 560 MB/s (3D NAND, SATA, M.2 Type 2280SS, Internal SSD) m+b" and I dont know if it's faulty or it just doesn't fit my laptop because it keeps crashing my laptop when I connect it via usb or try and put it into the laptop and boot from usb with my current ssd. P.S. it gets super duper hot within a minute as well, don't think thats healthy.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
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Does it crash if you just connect the M.2 by itself?
There is more than one version of the HP 250 G6 model and I was working on one that would not work with both, 2.5 SSD and M.2 SSD.
As far as I know, the SATA ports are shared and could only have one disk connected at the same time.
 
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jojesa said:
Does it crash if you just connect the M.2 by itself?
There is more than one version of the HP 250 G6 model and I was working on one that would not work with both, 2.5 SSD and M.2 SSD.
As far as I know, the SATA ports are shared and could only have one disk connected at the same time.
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There is only one m.2 ssd connection, there are no 2.5 connectors,
So my plan was to clone my current ssd, if I connect the new ssd via usb m.2 adapter, its not detected, even though all lights are on. If I try to boot via usb, it tells me to press f10 to go to bios and bios doesnt load up. If I disconnect the usb and launch bios, then place the usb back in, bios crashes.
If I instal the new ssd into the laptop and launch windows via usb with my old ssd, the laptop crashes on windows startup.
From all perspective, the new ssd gets super hot like I mentioned. if it is installed into the laptop, even the keyboard gets very hot due to the ssd.
 
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popatim said:
If it is getting hot then it is probably defective and needs to be returned.
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Yeah, I figured as much, so im returning it. However, im not sure if its actually supposed to work on my laptop or not, dont want to get another one of these just to realise it was me all along. But surely it shouldnt get this hot where I cant hold my fingers on my keyboard without feeling discomfort from the heat.
 
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super92 said:
Yeah, I figured as much, so im returning it. However, im not sure if its actually supposed to work on my laptop or not, dont want to get another one of these just to realise it was me all along. But surely it shouldnt get this hot where I cant hold my fingers on my keyboard without feeling discomfort from the heat.
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In the HP 250 G6 specifications and manual, it says "M.2 SATA solid state drives up to 512 GB"

Could it be that 1TB capacity is not supported or it just come with those configuration?
 
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Are you replacing this drive as your primary instead of using it as a secondary drive? If you're trying to replace the primary HD and just copying your existing Windows installation over, it's going to cause all kinds of problems. If you replace the primary HD, you must have a full Windows install and all current drivers available on a USB drive, or you are going to have a bad time.
 
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jojesa said:
In the HP 250 G6 specifications and manual, it says "M.2 SATA solid state drives up to 512 GB"

Could it be that 1TB capacity is not supported or it just come with those configuration?
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You're right, I just had a look at the manual online and m.2 does go up only to 512gb.
It should still detect it externally though right? And not crash my laptop via usb? I mean I have various sizes of usb memory sticks and they all work fine.
Anyways, I did not realise that this could be an issue, that bigger sized ssd's could not be supported...
 
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jojesa said:
I do hope the OP is just following Crucial steps to clone the original disk into the 1TB SSD using the cloning software available from Crucial's website.

I think that's why the OP connected the 1TB via USB, to clone the internal disk.
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Are you replacing this drive as your primary instead of using it as a secondary drive? If you're trying to replace the primary HD and just copying your existing Windows installation over, it's going to cause all kinds of problems. If you replace the primary HD, you must have a full Windows install and all current drivers available on a USB drive, or you are going to have a bad time.
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Yeah, im aiming to clone it with appropriate software and I do have the OS on a usb and all the drivers, if for some reason I would need a fresh OS instal.
 
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g-unit1111 said:
Cloning the OS is NEVER a good idea. You always need a fresh install if you are going to replace your primary HD.
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I have done it 100s of times and the only time I have encountered issues, was because either a disk was already failing or the system had previous issues. I make sure everything is working before wiping the source disk.
I have used half a dozen utilities free and paid and Acronis and EaseUS have served me best.
I have also used Samsung Data Migration Software and so far it have done the job.
I have even created images using Windows own Backup and Restore and it worked without a hitch.
I mainly perform cloning outside Windows though (more control of the process).
Creating an image of a disk and then deploying into another disk have worked best throughout the years.
 
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jojesa said:
I have done it 100s of times and the only time I have encountered issues, was because either a disk was already failing or the system had previous issues. I make sure everything is working before wiping the source disk.
I have used half a dozen utilities free and paid and Acronis and EaseUS have served me best.
I have also used Samsung Data Migration Software and so far it have done the job.
I have even created images using Windows own Backup and Restore and it worked without a hitch.
I mainly perform cloning outside Windows though (more control of the process).
Creating an image of a disk and then deploying into another disk have worked best throughout the years.
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I've used the Samsung data migration tool, but I've only ever used that for desktops. Even if it works initially at some point you will be required to reformat and reinstall the operating system. Also if you do use that tool, in all circumstances, make sure that you have a backup of your data before you proceed.
 
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I'll disagree with you on that. Reinstall wouldn't be due to the clone. It would be an update or corruption (like a power outage)
I've been cloning since about 1997 and the only issues I've really ever had is in hardware changes or the source disk was bad to begin with.
And since I keep an image on my server too - if the new disk fails then I'll be running again very quickly.
 
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popatim said:
I've been cloning since about 1997 and the only issues I've really ever had is in hardware changes or the source disk was bad to begin with.
And since I keep an image on my server too - if the new disk fails then I'll be running again very quickly.
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I remember using Ghost in DOS back then ....it only had one choice...cloning the entire disk.
I still have a couple of clone images on tape drive.
 
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So i've returned the ssd that was burning as soon as i gave it power and got another one (WD blue 1tb as well). It working fine in all perspectives and my laptop is recognising it fine as well. However I had problems cloning my current ssd to this one via multiple cloning softwares. It was likely due to me playing about with and merging partitions on my current ssd. Did all kinds of troubleshooting but it just crashes when it wants to clone the partition where all the data/windows is. Gave up in the end and installed fresh win10.
All and all this bad experience was due to a faulty ssd imo. Thanks all.
 
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