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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

lenovo.com/ca/en/p/laptops/thi

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

Okay thank you all for explaining. I have one more question: Is there actually, like, a difference between drive vendors. Like if I pick WD vs Samsung vs Lexar (vs… "crucial"?!) will it ever make any difference

@mcc individual models of drive from all the major brands will sometimes have problems. You probably won’t know for years. You can hedge your bets by buying a mix of brands. Backblaze publishes a report each year. backblaze.com/cloud-storage/re

www.backblaze.comHard Drive Test DataHard Drive test data from the Backblaze data center. Backblaze is affordable, easy-to-use cloud storage.

@edebill @mcc hard to install a mix of brands as the primary drive of a single laptop

@cibyr @mcc ah yes. I thought I saw a thread from a day or two ago about making a NAS and thought this was related. Mea culpa for not checking back up thread.

mcc

@edebill @cibyr Hm, you may have confused me with someone else.

@mcc @cibyr definitely. My apologies. Sorry for wrongly cluttering up your mentions.