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    Is HP dv9000 Quanta 30BD Mainboard capable of working with miniPCIe SSDs?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by bloodhand, Jul 25, 2014.

  1. bloodhand

    bloodhand Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello everyone!

    I'm planning to upgrade my old pal HP Pavilion dv9000 with an SSD, but due to the fact that I have 2x200GB HDDs already installed (and it would be very hard to sell them and to buy a single bigger HDD), I decided that a miniPCIe SSD will be an easier choice. What I thought of was to buy and solder the second miniPCIe connector (some guys online did this and it worked) and buy a miniPCIe 32GB SSD (I only want this for OS and boot). I can easily get the connector from a broken board and I've found an used 32 GB SSD at about 20$.

    The question is: does this laptop (dv9000) and/or motherboard (Quanta 30BD) support installing a miniPCIe SSD? Also, does it allow booting from it? What speeds and/or SATA version does miniPCIe support?

    Thanks in advance.
     
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    KLF NBR Super Modernator Super Moderator

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    I'm pretty sure that laptop is so old that it would only support PCIE and USB connections thru mPCIE connector. I've only seen laptops of that age have either wlan or dvb cards.
     
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    bloodhand Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yes, this is what I'm afraid of. I don't want to do all the process and find out in the end that my SSD won't be seen... I guess I'll have to go for the plan B: buy a CD/DVD to SATA adaptor and replace my DVD bay with the primary 200GB HDD and then buy a SATA SSD and place it in the primary bay. Still maybe someone tested a SSD on minipcie of this laptop. I would try this myself by removing the WLAN card and place a minipcie SSD instead, but I can't find one in my city to be able to make a physical test by myself.
     
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    No, it definitely won't work with mSATA. None of the Merom or Santa Rosa based notebooks from that era support mSATA.

    As for your idea of swapping out the optical drive for a HDD caddy... that will work out nicely provided that the optical is SATA and not PATA/IDE. Some of the PATA/IDE interfaces on HP notebooks from the era were limited to 33 MB/s transfer speeds. No such problem with the SATA interfaces in the optical bay from that era, though.
     
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