Does the Hewlett-Packard EliteBook Folio 9480m Take an NVMe SSD?
Hewlett-Packard EliteBook Folio 9480m
Every one of 66 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 SD7TB3Q-, TEAM T253X6001T, WDC WD5000BEVT-2
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 (33%)
- 512 GB (25%)
- 500 GB (25%)
- 128 GB (17%)
Sizes found installed in field reports — not a ceiling. Larger drives work fine.
How we know
This answer is derived from 66 independent hardware reports for the Hewlett-Packard EliteBook Folio 9480m, 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.