Laptop HD replacement - M2 or 2.5 Inch?

[Condi]

I'm trying to replace the HD on a HP Pavilion 14-bk154sa, bought about 5 or 6 years ago. Every online website said it needed a 2.5inch SSD, and so I bought a 2.5 inch SSD. Opened the laptop up, and found that it had an M2 SATA drive instead, although clearly other models on the same chassis had 2.5 inch drives, you can see where they fit.

So, is there a cable I can buy which will allow the 2.5 inch drive to fit, and it appears to need a mounting bracket as well, or is the easiest way to simply buy another M2 SATA drive? Seems a waste of £30 for the 2.5 inch if that is the case.

[mmm-five]

That m.2 already in there is a 128GB SATA m.2 (2280 B&M key), not an NVMe m.2 (2280 M key), so I don't think there's any speed to be gained between m.2 SATA and 2.5" SATA.

If you want to run a 2.5" SATA SSD, then you'll need both SATA power and SATA data connections from somewhere. I've seen adapters to let you run SATA M.2 sticks in 2.5" enclosures, but not the other way around.



I'd probably return the 2.5" SSD and get a similarly-sized m.2 SATA SSD.

Although, looking at iFixIt, you may just need the little cable (part DD0G72HD021 I believe) to connect to the existing SATA port above the 2.5" SSD slot as in this picture...


For example: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204401648892 or https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gintai-Drive-Connector-Pa... or https://www.aliexpress.com/i/1005005824009566.html

Edited by mmm-five on Thursday 26th October 14:35

[Condi]

Perfect, thank you so much. I've bough the SATA cable and some mounting brackets so that should work nicely.

[Condi]

mmm-five said:

Although, looking at iFixIt, you may just need the little cable (part DD0G72HD021 I believe) to connect to the existing SATA port above the 2.5" SSD slot as in this picture...

For example: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204401648892 or https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gintai-Drive-Connector-Pa... or https://www.aliexpress.com/i/1005005824009566.html

Just to say, thank you, I bought a little cable, and simply connected the SDD. Worked perfectly. Just had to find some velcro from the garage to affix the HD in place, as there weren't any of the correct rails on ebay.

[mmm-five]

Glad you got it sorted.