HP EliteBook 820 G3 Subnotebook Review

[Redaktion]

Let down by the display. The third generation of the HP EliteBook 820 is a compact subnotebook with a 12.5-inch screen, which is designed for business environments. Our review configuration, however, is unbalanced, because besides good performance, you also get a very poor TN screen. Coil whining is a problem for the small notebook as well.

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[Haris]

is there any way we can have SSD+HDD at same time

[Red90]

Nope.  You can on the 840, but with the 820, the M2 occupies the same space as the 2.5" drive.  It was not well thought out.

[Mr Robot]

You're wrong.  I own an 820 G3 and have a SATA HDD and the preinstalled SSD working together.

The SSD sits on top of the HDD and fits completely fine.

[Kak Anggata]

@Mr Robot

How were you able to do this? What particular HDD and m.2 SSD did you use?

[Davek]

I can confirm that it can hold a HDD and SSD. I bought one with 128gb SSD installed and today I opened it up and put on old WD slim 1tb HDD in. The M2 SSD sits on top the the HDD fine. It's actually a clever way of organising the space in there

[Domenico]

Hi, I can't find the color profile you suggest to use to to adjust the quality of the screen. Where can i retrieve the link please?
Thanks a lot

[zerGus]

I have confirmed that an mSATA - SATA adapter will physically fit into the 2.5" bay next to an M2 SSD.
I am waiting for the mSATA SSD to confirm whether they will both work together.

[Christopher Gilchrist]

You can fit a SATA 111 Drive under the M2.

In fact you could have a total of 8TB
of disk space in this box!

2TB on the M2 SSD
&
6TB on the SATA 111

I currently have 32 GB of ram
256GB M2 Nvme SSD
and
500GB Kingston SATA 111 SSD Drive

It works very well and is extremely fast cost me £420 altogether.

Great piece of kit for working with!

Chris

[Mr Nicholas Smith]

Yep, defo, NVME on top of SDD SATA, just make sure you get a thin SSD SATA  :) ;)

[Raja]

Thank you for your excellent review this model does support type C  charging .