Does the Samsung Electronics R505 Take an NVMe SSD?
Samsung Electronics R505
No NVMe drive was ever observed in 10 reports — this model almost certainly uses SATA storage (2.5-inch or SATA M.2).
Every field report for this laptop showed a SATA drive rather than NVMe, so an NVMe M.2 stick most likely will not work here. A 2.5-inch SATA SSD is the safe upgrade. We deliberately do not link NVMe drives on this result — a drive that cannot fit is worse than no recommendation.
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.
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How we know
This answer is derived from 10 independent hardware reports for the Samsung Electronics R505, 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.