SSD for laptop

IrishChr1s

IrishChr1s

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Hi guy,

I recently purchased a desktop replacement laptop and would like to know if there's room for an upgrade on the storage side of things. I need to run statistical software that loves to take its time booting, so I'm thinking a nice SSD should improve loading times.

HP Envy 17" J053EA
4th gen I7 4700mq
12gb memory
740m GT (pretty poor but I dont game)
1tb 5400rpm HD

After rooting around the HP website, I cant seem to get an answer on the upgrade, Is there 2 HD slots? Could i put a SSD in slot 0, and the 1tb drive in slot 1? and what SSD would you recommend.

I don't need one over 60gb, as all my work is autobacked up on dropbox, so a nice and fast 60gb drive would suit me perfect. thats if there is a second slot available for the backup 1tb drive.

Any advice would be great, i've been away from the component side of things for a long time.

Chris
 
If your not sure just flip it over and remove the flap on the back and see if there is two slots or just the one already taken up by your hdd.
 
Idk if the mb in that laptop supports an msata ssd and caching? You could cache the hdd then

Or you might be able to remove the dvd Rom drive and add in an ssd? Make sure its 7mm so it will fit
 
Giggz said:
If your not sure just flip it over and remove the flap on the back and see if there is two slots or just the one already taken up by your hdd.
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Just had a look, There's no obvious screws that can be removed, it looks fairly sealed, ill try to open it in the morning and have a check.
 
HP are normally quite good with their documentation if you can find it. It does seem like your computer should support dual HD configurations - you want the maintenance and service guide for details of how to access it and what configurations are 'standard'. Looks like you need to remove the battery to access the screw holding the service panel on. Whether you can just slap in a different sized secondary disk is something i can't answer for you (the standard 2-disk configurations look to be set up as pairs of the same capacity, so presumably RAID)
 
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I had a SSHD in my 17" dell xps.
They are on offer in the OCuk store, very affordable upgrade and good upgrade, if you aren't looking for really fast write speeds. Read speeds are almost same as SSDs.
Good thing is the capacity, you get 1 TB out of 2.5" drive :)
 
sbothwell said:
HP are normally quite good with their documentation if you can find it. It does seem like your computer should support dual HD configurations - you want the maintenance and service guide for details of how to access it and what configurations are 'standard'. Looks like you need to remove the battery to access the screw holding the service panel on. Whether you can just slap in a different sized secondary disk is something i can't answer for you (the standard 2-disk configurations look to be set up as pairs of the same capacity, so presumably RAID)
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This is fantastic, just found how to access the service door, once home ill crack it open and see what the config is, from reading that document it seems it does has dual HD configuration,

My only concern is this,

Solid-state drive Only configured with system memory up to 8 GB:
● 32-GB mSATA (select models only)
● 24-GB mSATA (select models only)

Thanks for all the help people, really appreciate it!
 
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