Envy 17 3005eo ssd primary compability

As the title says, what is the SSD compability of the envy 17 3005 eo?
what are the RAM compability?
what is the max HDD capabilty?
kind regards
Allan Jensen

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Thanks, more opinion/practices? What HP says? If this change is made by authorized HP seller, is warranty ok?
Hi,
Yes, please keep all papers
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BH
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Envy 17-J130ea ssd, blu-ray and extra upgrade options

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Wondered if someone could help me with some upgrade help.
I have a sandisk 120GB SSD and wanted to upgrade the laptop bootable hdd to this containing win 8.1. I know it is possible to do this having just the ssd in the laptop (I know this is a relatively small ssd) but I wanted to know if you could keep the existing 1TB hdd in as a secondary drive? I have read a few posts around the internet and it seems quite difficult to achieve. Would appreciate any assistance on how to make this happen as I will be sending my laptop to a pc shop to perform the upgrade so would like them to know how they need to perform the upgrade (if it is not something simple that a joe public could do themself i.e. myself).
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http://www.newmodeus.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_5&products_id=542
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I just purchased a new 2012 HP Envy 17. I also purchased a Corsair 180 GB SSD. I want to install the SSD making it my primary drive, using the 1 TB drive that was installed on the computer as a secondary drive.
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Hi,
Specs: http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-ENVY-17-Notebook-PC-series/5354973/model/5390390/document/c03...
It's better to make SSD as boot drive in primary bay itself to get the most performance out of it.
Buy a branded 2.5 inch SATA 7mm thick internal notebook SSD . I don't know about the reliability of the Crucial SSD. But the Samsung 840 Evo SSD in my Pavilion 15 does a commendable job for me.
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Page 48 - 50 in the Manual : replacement procedures -
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03922401
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http://www.amazon.com/HP-720237-001-HDD-HARDWARE-KIT/dp/B00G2FZ714
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00FYLPZXM/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/276-6944160-3194365
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Hi:
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Could you please post a list of compatible SSD's including which HP recommends.
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HP has not tested any for your model except 24GB & 32GB mSATA cache SSD , which can only be put in system upto 8GB RAM & I assume yours has 16GB.
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Hi, Robert:
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Just thought I'd post the happy ending to this. I did replace the SSD with a 7 mm Samsung SSD, and it's working beautifully. It has a 3 year warranty. The rubber pieces from the Lenovo drive didn't exactly fit, but with a bit of muscle they did the job.
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http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/msata-ssd-compatability-list.html
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Please help! Major problems (performance and lock-ups) with brand new W520 with Intel 520 SSD

My company primarily uses HP machines but I've been a long time IBM (now Lenovo) fan so I recently had IT purchase me a new Lenovo W520 (product ID 42763LU).
Once the machine arrived I had them do the following:
Remove the 500GB HDD and replace it with an Intel 520 series 240GB SSD
Remove the optical drive and install the 500GB hard drive that came with the machine in the optical bay (with the bay adapter of course)
Format both drives and put a preconfigured windows 7 64-bit image on the SSD
A general summary of the system is the following:
Intel i7-2860QM CPU
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Hitachi 500GB HDD (optical bay) [HTS727550A9E365]
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The machine was a few days delayed getting to me due to "hard drive driver issues" (that's what I was told). When I received the machine I immediately noticed that it was much slower than I expected (I have a custom built i5 HTPC at home running windows 7 on a Crucial SATA III SSD that I was comparing it to) and I was experiencing frequent hangs (ranging from 30 seconds to multiple minutes), super long boot times, general “slowness” at times, and occasional lock-ups. Since our "baseline" laptop here at work is the "equivalent" HP workstation my IT guys have been less than helpful in helping me to solve this issue. Being reasonably computer savvy I decided to try to try to fix the issue myself. I performed the following “troubleshooting” steps:
1. One of the first issues (errors) I noticed in the event viewer was errors related to the optical drive. Clearly the image they installed on the machine was not from a machine with the same hardware configuration. So, I decided to just wipe the machine and perform a fresh install of windows 7 from the disks (well, USB). After spending multiple days installing windows, performing updates, making sure all the drivers were current, and installing only the critical software I need, I was disappointed to realize that although I fixed the optical drive errors the machine was still slow, was hanging, and locking up regularly.
2. Removed the cover on the machine and removed/reinstalled the drive to verify it was secure.Everything looked good.
3. Verified the latest firmware is installed on all my Intel hardware. Everything seemed up to date.
4. I performed a number of troubleshooting steps like booting the machine with/without the battery, with/without the HDD in the optical bay, installed/removed from the docking station, etc. and none of these things helped (also a note – occasionally when running on the battery I was hearing a strange “buzz” or “static” sound coming from the area around the SSD).
5. Next I did some internet research and learned quite a few things. First, it sounds like others have had similar problems with this machine and/or SSD combo and there were quite a few options suggested to “fix” these issues. The general consensus for troubleshooting steps were:
5.1. Download and install the latest Intel chipset drivers and AHCI controller drivers (overwriting whatever windows installs during updates).This didn’t fix anything.
5.2. Turn off PCI express link state power management in the power manager. This didn’t fix anything.
5.3. Disable superfetch, prefetch, indexing, defragmentation, page file, system restore, and hibernate. A few of these were already disabled by windows so in those cases I just verified they were disabled in the services and application editor. These things may have slightly increased performance but did not fix the major hang/lockup issues I was having.
5.4. I followed online steps to edit the registry to disable the PCI link power management by adding ports, adding the required variables, and setting them all to 0. This did seem to have fixed the hangs and/or lock-ups but the machine is still much slower than I would expect (boot times are still pretty slow and it does “stutter” when I’m doing more than one thing at a time. Also a note here – I have the Intel SSD toolbox installed and I noticed that it was giving me a warning for DIPM not being optimized. I made the mistake of clicking “Tune!” and then started having the hang/lock-up issues again. I went back into the registry and sure enough the PCI link power management variables for ports 0 and 1 were set back to 1. I set them back to 0 and the hangs have gone away. I will not be “tuning” the DIPM through the Intel SSD toolbox again…
6. I also fixed a couple of other minor errors I was seeing in the event viewer by disabling benign services and/or making slight timeout modifications (I researched each issue on the internet to verify they were benign before I implemented any changes). These fixes didn't seem to do anything other than make some of the errors/warnings go away. So, the list of errors/warnings has become much smaller but I’m still getting the following (maybe an issue, maybe not?):
Event ID 37 for every processor saying that they are in a reduced performance state for xx seconds since the last report
Event ID 10002 - WLAN Extensibility Module has stopped
Event ID 4001 - WLAN AutoConfig service has successfully stopped
Event ID 27 – Intel® 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection link is disconnected
I suspect the WLAN errors have something to do with windows fighting with the Lenovo access connection tools?
7. Since the machine still seemed slow I downloaded the program AS SSD and checked the performance of the SSD. When I compared my performance numbers to the benchmark numbers I found onlineI was very surprised to discover that I’m getting about 50% of the performance that I should (values below are read/write).
Seq: 262.11 / 188.32 (s/b 504.58 / 298.28) [MB/s]
4K: 15.83 / 44.92 (s/b 21.70 / 62.60) [MB/s]
4K-64Thrd: 165.23 / 154.46 (s/b 241.38 / 234.08) [MB/s]
Acc.time: 0.218 / 0.294 (s/b .0186 / 0.208) [ms]
Score: 207 / 208 (s/b 314 / 327)
Overall Score: 533 (s/b 797)
One more note - it seems like my cooling fan is running at a high speed almost all of the time. This is probably one of my power settings (I think I have it set for max performance) but it's even doing this when there is no load (i.e. I'm using IE and just vieweing webpages - like right now).
So, I apologize for such a long post but I’ve spent countless hours researching and troubleshooting this problem and haven’t been able to figure out what the heck is wrong here. Am I missing something simple or do you guys think I have a SSD and/or problem with the machine itself? To say that any and all help would be greatly appreciated would be a massive understatement – I’m on the verge of pulling my hair out and I really need this machine working as quickly as possible!
Please let me know if you have any suggestions and/or need additional information. Thanks in advance for your help!
-Erik

Lol gotcha about the drive as an option. I didn't go SSD with mine. Do you have the latest firmware on your drive? It is supposed to be v1.97. Just checking (ah and I see item 3 so guess so). Do you have the SSD drive toolbox software installed?
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProductFamily=Solid+State+Drives+and+Cach...)
Seems some useful tools are in there. I can't say much beyond that with the drive. Oh. Why does your fan always run at high speed? Can you describe that? I mean, are we troubleshooting the right kind of issue? Is there anything else going on with your system? I saw about the reduced core speeds message. what are your system loads like? Anything causing high cpu utilization? Could be something other than the drive causing your low numbers and lockups.

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