Bitlocker & OPAL 2 SSD Support

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Please can you confirm which Bitlocker versions support OPAL 2 SSDs?
thanks

e_sakhan wrote:
Dear HP Support Team,
I am using HP Pavilion M6 1019TX for few months long. It is a very good laptop. It is not only an entertainment laptopn, but also very good for professionals. It has Core i5 3rd Gen and 8GB RAM.
Now a days, I am thinking to change its Optical Hard Drive and to replace it by SSD (256GB or 340GB+). But here in local computer sales centers are telling me that it is not possible to replace optical HDD by SSD. SSD will not be supported.
Could you please let me know the following:
1) Is it possible to replace my internal HDD by SDD?
2) Which SSD - Brand & Models will be supported?
3) If any special suggestion to select SSD.
I love HP and I want to be with it. I will be waiting for your reply.
Thanks
BR
S. A. Khan
Hi,
This laptop has an mSATA slot. Means you can keep the optical drive and use mSATA SSD (I have used Intel 525 series on the series laptop) with the hard drive as a storage. It's a bit complicated to make it work because the mSATA is not designed to be a boot drive so the OS bootloader must be installed on the hard drive.
You can always use a proper 2.5" solid drive. Samsung, Intel, Corsair, Crucial and other top brand drives should work fine on the laptop. I have a Samsung Pro but Evo is well recommended.
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