Seagate BarraCuda 2.5'' 2 TB and DDR4 SODIMM RAM upgrade on HP EliteBook 8760w — possible?

Well, I expect that the answer to my question will be without a doubt a resounding "Yes!" But before I spend my money, I want to double-check, just to be sure.

OK, my first question is: Will my laptop support 2 TB BarraCuda HDD? I am almost 100% sure it will, as I have already installed a 1 TB Toshiba HDD into my second HDD slot for my Kali GNU/Linux OS and it works perfectly, despite the fact that this HP model is advertised to be compatible with a max of 750 GB of storage (by the way ,thanks for that, HP). So I got past slimy corporate false advertisement — I'm just afraid that my beloved HP will pull some proprietary bollocks with BIOS whitelists or something. But since some obscure Toshiba HDD worked, I don't see why my new shiny BarraCuda wouldn't.

The second one is a bit confusing. My current RAM is DDR3 8 GB. I intend on buying another 8 GB of SODIMM RAM so I can upgrade to 16 GB of RAM total . I was just wondering if I could buy DDR4 instead of DDR3? Is DDR4 SODIMM backwards-compatible with my device or are the sockets different? Could firmware be the problem? Furthermore could mixing DDR3 and DDR4 in the same motherboard be the problem? Please give me advice on this one and address all possible issues, which will especially be appreciated if they come from experience.

Cheers.

 

The Hard drive will work fine, the RAM you can't upgrade to DDR4, the RAM slot for the DDR3/L is completely different and it will not fit, and the motherboard will not support DDR4 anyway. I suggest that you buy the same RAM speed and timing like the one you have now.
Good luck.

 

Thanks, man!

 

You are welcome.