Lenovo Thinkpad E560 M.2 Slot

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Lenovo Thinkpad E560 M.2 Slot
  1. Lenovo Thinkpad E560 M.2 Slot Drivers
  2. Thinkpad E560 Review
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Lenovo Thinkpad E560 M.2 Slot Drivers

First, the WWAN M.2 slot in the X1 Gen3 is single-sided only (insufficient height for M.2 cards with chips on both sides), and second, it apparently doesn't have SATA lanes routed to the slot. Oh well - now to figure out how to live with only 512 GB of space! ↳ ThinkPad T60/T61 Series ↳ ThinkPad T40/T41/T42/T43 Series ↳ ThinkPad T20-T23 & T30 Series. NOT for T25-Retro ↳ Thinkpad X60/X61 Series incl. Tablets ↳ ThinkPad X20/X30/X40 Series incl. Tablets ↳ ThinkPad R, A, G and Z Series ↳ ThinkPad Legacy Hardware ↳ Thinkpad - General HARDWARE/SOFTWARE questions. The Lenovo ThinkPad E560 is a long-awaited successor to the E550 that we’ve reviewed earlier this year. We were somewhat disappointed with the lack of M.2 SSD slot, so let’s find out if the OEM fixed that. Removing the service cover Removing the service lid is relatively easy – there are only three screws holding it in place. Lenovo ThinkPad E570 features a Western Digital 1TB 5400RPM hard drive, Lenovo P/N: 00FC429. Ramaxel 8GB PC4-2400 RAM, the laptop has two RAM slots and only comes with one 8GB RAM, so you can add another 8GB RAM. Remove one screw and unplug two antenna cables. You can remove the wireless card. The M.2 SSD is covering a protective plate.

Thinkpad E560 Review

Just got a great deal on a near-mint ThinkPad W541 and I'm scoping out all the tech sites for m.2 2242 (the smaller size form factor) SSD reviews and figured I'd just ask outright in case anyone else out there might be in a similar situation. The laptop has the standard 2.5' drive bay and I just ordered a hard drive optical caddy since I really have no use for the optical drive (I have a nice LG external USB M-Disc capable burner already).
So, because this machine - which is just shy of 3 years old when it shipped in August 2015 - can't support larger than the smallest 2242 form factor m.2 drives, sadly, and of course it doesn't have NVMe support either so it's got to be a plain old vanilla m.2 2242 SATA III SSD that I'm in the market for.
The current 2.5' bay has the factory Samsung SSD in it (not sure which model it's based on, probably the 840 series) and of course it won't work with Samsung Magician which is utterly ridiculous - I swear I wish there was a hack to that app that lets me make use of that an the RAPID RAM cache since I've got 16GB of RAM in it (can max out at 32GB but that'll take awhile).
So I hope to find a decent performing m.2 2242 SSD that I can put in the m.2 slot obviously and then make that the boot/system drive. Would prefer to find a 480GB or larger if such things exist but if needed then a 250/256GB model would work too, smaller than that is pushing it I suppose as I do have a few VMs that take up maybe 140GB of space which means with a 256GB that leaves plenty of room for the host OS, Windows 7 Pro x64.
Any and all recommendations, suggestions, and tips are welcome, thanks. Just in case people aren't aware this is a size comparison of the m.2 form factors, and the 2242 is my only option: