Oct 11, 2019 Amazon.com: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Tablet (3rd Gen) - 13in - Core i7 8650U - 8 GB RAM - 256 - 13' Touchscreen LCD - 2 in 1 Notebook - Fingerprint Reader - Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Edition (20KJ0017US): Computers & Accessories. Jul 09, 2018 Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Tablet (3rd Gen) makes a very good tablet even better with the latest 8th-gen processors, a 3K display, a better keyboard and more. 256GB-1TB PCIe-NVMe M. The second M.2 SSD slot is not the wifi slot. It's a special part called the 3rd NGFF SSD adapter (FRU 04X3827) which is installed in the same place as the smart card reader. You only need this if you want to have WWAN/LTE card and M.2 SSD at the same time. Regarding the SSD brand: unfortunately your options are limited.
Hi Thinkpads Forum,This is to report the successful installation of a 110mm PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD ('22110' form factor) into the Thinkpad X1 Yoga 2017/2:nd edition.
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This might be the first ultralight laptop with an internal 3.84TB SSD in the world.
This SSD was purchased as a special order from Samsung via Span, https://www.span.com/product/Samsung-SS ... -SSD~68196 , and at the time of purchase I did not realize it's 110mm. Lucas at Span was very helpful in helping me source and ship the SSD.
https://imgur.com/a/BYWJHBU - halfway through installation
https://imgur.com/a/6Rw6FnX - installation complete.Ssd Slot Types
(Photos are found on mirror here https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-X ... -p/4181426 )M 2 Ssd
The installation was made as follows: The laptop features only a screwing hole at 80mm, and to complicate matters further, the motherboard has electronics on the far side of the screw hole.
To offset this, i put a 1mm thick heatsink padding on the empty area between the M2 socket and the screw hole, this way providing a pushing force outward for the case that the SSD would have a pressure shock toward the motherboard. Note that the cut is made so that the padding fits into empty space, there is no padding over neither screwing hole nor electronics on the far side, here the SSD is located directly to the screwing hole, upper side of some socket, and the black plastic film under which there's some electronic components.
Next, I installed the SSD, and next, added one more layer of heatsink padding, to offset physical shock - this padding faces the laptop's bottom cover.
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The heatsink padding is sticky and in itself serves excellently to keep the SSD in place, like a cheese is kept in place in the middle of a butter sandwhich.
Finally, I fixed the SSD additionally using 0.012 inch/0.30mm thick fishing line, expectably manufactured from Spectra aka Dyneema aka UHMWP material, which has a couple percent elasticity, and is temperature proof for continuous operation up to 250 fahrenheit = 120 centegrades. I got the http://www.maximafishingline.com/products/ultragreen/ at a local fishing store. The fishing line is fixed in very narrow holes on the SSD that exist on its far side.
This mod makes the laptop approximately 1mm thicker due to pressure of the leftmost ~35mm of the SSD plus thermal padding, to the bottom cover.
This can only be observed from the outside if looking very carefully.
I expect any physical pressure on the SSD's chips, PCB and solder to not shorten its lifetime, if there would be any problems at any point I'd share it here.
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