Does the Hewlett-Packard EliteBook Folio 1040 G1 Take an NVMe SSD?
Hewlett-Packard EliteBook Folio 1040 G1
Every one of 42 field reports observed SATA storage rather than NVMe.
That is useful evidence about the reported machines, but it does not prove that every configuration lacks an NVMe slot or that the installed SATA drive is 2.5-inch rather than SATA M.2. Check the service manual, connector, dimensions, and current drive before ordering.
Field reports can’t tell us whether the SATA drive is a 2.5-inch bay or a SATA M.2 slot, nor which M.2 length fits — check the service manual before you buy.
Reported by field data
- Storage controller:
- Intel Corporation 8 Series SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode]
- Platform:
- Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller
- Drives seen:
- SanDisk SD6SN1M-, LITEON IT L8T-25, INTEL SSDSCKGF18
Drives people actually had installed when they ran the report — not a compatibility list, and not the only drives that fit.
Capacities seen
- 256 GB (45%)
- 180 GB (36%)
- 1 TB (9%)
- 128 GB (9%)
Sizes found installed in field reports — not a ceiling. Larger drives work fine.
How we know
This answer is derived from 42 independent hardware reports for the Hewlett-Packard EliteBook Folio 1040 G1, of which 0% observed an NVMe drive. We read the PCI device list in each report to tell NVMe apart from SATA.
Check it yourself
On Windows, open Task Manager → Performance and click your disk to see its model and type. On Linux, run lsblk -d -o NAME,TRAN,MODEL and read the TRAN column.
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Storage interfaces derived from linuxhw/LsPCI, licensed CC-BY-4.0.