Okay. Please help me as I ask COMPUTER BABBY QUESTIONS.
I have a Thinkpad T14 Gen 3 (AMD).
It has a 256 GB HD. That's too small. I want to buy a new, bigger one. I have a sense the good hard drives these days are "M.2".
Lenovo's specs page
doesn't say anything about "M.2". It says the hd is "PCIe".
I run "lshw" to see what's on the computer. It says "NVMe".
How do I find out the bestest fastest aftermarket drive Canada Computers carries that my computer will support
I only understand computation as the MANIPULATION OF ABSTRACT PLATONIC FORMS. I do not understand this realm where computers are "physical objects" you manipulate with "screwdrivers". I would prefer to use Math to translate my thoughts directly into action, as if I am casting magic spells
@mcc it does make a difference.
These days not so much on the performance front, most generations of SSDs are roughly comparable to each other under normal workloads; but reliability differs a lot, and thermal performance does a bit.
(Non-standard workloads are things like sustained max-throughput writes which exhaust DRAM caches, or heavy load when drives are near 100% usage and can't relocate storage blocks quickly enough to meet write load.)