HELP me upgrade a SSD

[George.]

Hey, so I own a HP Pavillion x360 2018 14" cd0505na - the i5 8250u variant. 

The laptop was bought second hand.

Thing is the SSD is only 128GB (M.2 Sata 3)

I want to upgrade it to say 512GB (scouting for black friday deals), BUT I wonder if it would support the NVMe protocol or do I have to stick to SATA AHCI?

The performance uplift isn't that neccessary but if it's possible, I'd like to have it.

I contacted HP and they said it supports "sata, nvme, pci-e, m2." If we go by the way they worded it, it's a mixture of protocols and interfaces so it seems that the person who replied to me can't be trusted 100%, imho.

I'm a bit confused at this point.

I dissasembled the laptop, the SSD inside is a M.2 2280 Sata 3. Easiest thing would be to buy the same, but with larger capacity.

Coming from PC land, I assume that if the physical interface on the mobo is SATA, then a PCI-e wouldn't really work with it? Noticed the different cuts it has near the pins, it's 2 cuts vs 1. 

I'm really inexperienced when it comes to everything not-SATA-with-cables-inside-a-pc-case haha.

Thanks in advance!

 

P.S. There's a 2,5inch empty harddrive bay but no PCB leads to it, cannot be used. I assume it's for the same laptop model but a different variant that HP would ship with a HDD instead of SSD or a conventional 2.5inch SSD.

There are no other internal peripheral interfaces. No second slots, nothing. Funny thing is the RAM is under a steel capsule, had never seen such magic before.

[Ankh Tech]

37 minutes ago, George. said:

Hey, so I own a HP Pavillion x360 2018 14" cd0505na - the i5 8250u variant. 

The laptop was bought second hand.

Thing is the SSD is only 128GB (M.2 Sata 3)

I want to upgrade it to say 512GB (scouting for black friday deals), BUT I wonder if it would support the NVMe protocol or do I have to stick to SATA AHCI?

The performance uplift isn't that neccessary but if it's possible, I'd like to have it.

I contacted HP and they said it supports "sata, nvme, pci-e, m2." If we go by the way they worded it, it's a mixture of protocols and interfaces so it seems that the person who replied to me can't be trusted 100%, imho.

I'm a bit confused at this point.

I dissasembled the laptop, the SSD inside is a M.2 2280 Sata 3. Easiest thing would be to buy the same, but with larger capacity.

Coming from PC land, I assume that if the physical interface on the mobo is SATA, then a PCI-e wouldn't really work with it? Noticed the different cuts it has near the pins, it's 2 cuts vs 1. 

I'm really inexperienced when it comes to everything not-SATA-with-cables-inside-a-pc-case haha.

Thanks in advance!

 

P.S. There's a 2,5inch empty harddrive bay but no PCB leads to it, cannot be used. I assume it's for the same laptop model but a different variant that HP would ship with a HDD instead of SSD or a conventional 2.5inch SSD.

There are no other internal peripheral interfaces. No second slots, nothing. Funny thing is the RAM is under a steel capsule, had never seen such magic before.

If it has two cuts, called keys, that means it is m.2 m + b key, here is a list with all of them:

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#f=122080&i=83