Hallo:

I've a HP Pavilion DV6 2026es with 4GB RAM and 500GB HD.

I´d like to know if I could make it go a bit faster by connecting a SSD (128-256GB is enought) and install there the OS.

Reading specifications (http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01885984, page 10, not found manual in english) I find this ports:
- Expansion port 3.
- eSATA/USB port
- USB Ports (USB 2.0)
- IEEE 1394 port.
- Expansion card/54.
- MMC, MSP, MS, SD, SDHC, XD... for digital cards.

Also the possibility of extraction the DVD and replacing it with the SSD.

Can any tell some possibilities for connecting the SSD and if I'd appreciate an important speed increase.

Thanks

It will be faster if you replace a spinning rust drive with an SSD. Boot times are shorter, and loading programs will be faster. I have done this with two systems, and after, you will wonder why you didn't do it sooner. I would suggest you get an SSD as large as your budget allows. I would also suggest, since you have an e-Sata port, get a enclosure for the 500 gig drive, and use it for longer term storage for large files. Keep you root partition, swap, and home on the SSD.

You will have to find out if the DVD drive is a Sata drive, or IDE. It might be possible if the drive is Sata. The almost impossible part is the mechanical fastening of a SSD in place of a DVD drive. The sizes are different, and you don't want a cluge sticking out the side of a laptop.

Hi,
I found this document on the HP Pavillion DV6 which may be of interest (in English)
It looks like you can fit an 160Gb SSD but I think that's in place of the 500Gb HDD - providing you have an Intel processor. (see page 37)

Unlike desktop computers where the media bays are basically all the same with only a carrier bracket required, laptops tend to have fairly specific spaces to fit the drives so fitting an SSD into an optical drive space is probably not possible - even if the connectors matched up!

Not sure that helps.

Play Bonny!

Thanks

If finally install the SSD, I'll come back to write my impressions

Not sure if it works on THAT model, but there are optical bay caddies made for DV6 laptops to put a hard drive/SSD in.

https://www.amazon.com/Pavilion-DV6-.../dp/B0190M6VDI

You could always buy a third party PCI/PCI express to Sata controller card.

Those wouldn't fit in a laptop...

The HP Pavilion DV6-2026es does have an Express Card slot which should accept an eSATA controller adapter card like the ones found by https://www.google.com/search?q=esata+express+card.

I've installed the SSD and the results are good.

What I've done:
- Removed the DVD unit.
- Installed a 240GB SSD. What I've bought have been:
a) KingDian 240 GB 560/422mb/S SATA3
b) Universal 2nd SSD ODD Adapter

I've installed the OS (kubuntu 18.04) on the SSD and now the computer now goes really fast compared to before installation.

Test on SSD.
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