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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

Ben Zanin

@mcc edit: never mind, you're being inundated in correct responses. Sorry. (They weren't there when I started writing.)

@gnomon @mcc One minor correction: mSATA is a very different physical connection using the old MiniPCIe slot instead of the M.2 slot. They were only made for a few years before M.2 took over entirely.

M.2 drives can be NVMe (almost always key M except for exotic hardware) or SATA (key B, M, or B+M).

@bob_zim @mcc true, thanks for the correction.