Hp Zbook 15 Ssd Cache Replacement Repair Guide

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Easy

Steps

3

Time Required

                          5 minutes            

Sections

• Battery
• 1 step
• Back Cover
• 1 step
• SSD Cache
• 1 step

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Introduction

What you need

Step 1

              Battery               

• Flip the laptop over.
• Slide the lever with the battery symbol beside it firmly until the battery pops out.
• Remove the battery from the laptop.

Flip the laptop over.

Slide the lever with the battery symbol beside it firmly until the battery pops out.

Remove the battery from the laptop.

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Step 2

              Back Cover               

• Slide the right lever firmly to the right.
• Slide the cover towards yourself to remove it.

Slide the right lever firmly to the right.

Slide the cover towards yourself to remove it.

Step 3

              SSD Cache               

• Remove the two 3 mm screws with a Phillips #0 screwdriver.
• Remove the Solid State Cache by pulling the module up and out.

Remove the two 3 mm screws with a Phillips #0 screwdriver.

Remove the Solid State Cache by pulling the module up and out.

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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Reza Sajedi - Dec 27, 2018

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Does it create a seprate volume drive by inserting the mSata SSD to install Operating System on it?

Luis Alejandro Araúz - Mar 10, 2021

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Remember, this machine is from 2013, a time when SSDs were still hella expensive! That’s why the mSATA drive is refered to as a “cache” drive: they were so small they were only good for that. A stock, untouched Zbook g1/g2 might still come with a small (32GB) mSATA SSD configured as cache in the OS.

That doesn’t mean you can’t use the mSATA drive as your main OS drive, and that’s what I’ve been doing for years without a hint of trouble. You can easily find a high capacity mSATA SSD and put your OS and I/O-intensive programs on it. The Zbook will purr along nicely.