Storage Solutions Help me identify my laptop's SSD

meetdilip

Adept
Hi, I have an HP Pavilion laptop. It has only 500 GB of inbuilt storage. I thought of adding another 500 GB and contacted HP support. They said, "Buy any M2 SSD ". I almost bought one but realised that there are green and blue ones and they are different. I think there is PCIe or Nvme. Not sure which to choose. I guess it is PCIe but not 100% sure. It would be nice if someone can help me with a method to identify which one fits my laptop. Thanks.
 

Heisen

Recruit
HP Pavilion which model? There must be a model number.
 

OMEGA44-XT

Adept
Check laptop manual & specs, it will mention if current SSD is NVMe or SATA. Or just use software like Crystaldiskinfo to see model number & search it online or use a benchmark tool like Crystaldiskmark to chekc speeds, sequential R/W speeds of 1000MBps+ means NVMe, safe to get a PCIe 3.0 NVMe in that case, which is what most laptops support, unless yours is very old & has a M.2 SATA.

Do not buy WD Green in any case. WD SN570 is a good VFM SSD.