What do you expect from a DRAMless drive with low quality NAND and controller?

Go for a quality one like the Crucial MX500/Samsung 860 EVO

There's also the issue of write amplification, which is very common on DRAMless SSDs

I don't recommend RGB SSDs due to potential overheating concerns (see: HyperX Fury RGB SSD)

Also, RGB LEDs + M.2 NVME drives (which can get quite hot) = bad for thermals IMHO

Note: The PNY drive is a double sided drive (which mean the chips are on both sides of the PCB), which may not fit on certain laptops (usually those slim and light models)

...which exact Thinkbook 13s model is that?

There are four models according to Lenovo support:

ThinkBook 13s G2 ARE Laptop

ThinkBook 13s G2 ITL Laptop

ThinkBook 13s-IML Laptop

ThinkBook 13s-IWL Laptops

Samsung drives are overpriced here, so just go for other brands instead

Those are PCI slots, not PCIe slots, and so the SSD adapter and the WiFi 6 card will not work on it

Note that the white and black PCIe slots operate at PCIe 2.0 x8/x4 respectively, if you have a discrete GPU installed on the first slot (i.e. the dark blue PCIe slot)

The white PCIe slot will run at PCIe 2.0 x8, which gives you a theoretical maximum of 4GB/s speeds (or equivalent PCIe 3.0 x4)
On the other hand, the black PCIe slot will run at PCIe 2.0 x4, which translates to a maximum of 2GB/s speeds

Do note that PCIe to NVMe adapters may not work properly due to the BIOS may not handle booting from PCIe storage correctly, and you may need to use certain tools like Clover UEFI to work:
https://www.win-raid.com/t2375f50-Guide-NVM...der-method.html

That being said, a WiFi 6 adapter should work fine as long as you have the correct drivers for it

That's perfectly fine, as the real world difference between SATA and NVME are not very large to say the least

What's your use case that demands lots of drive writes?

For most users, something like the 860 EVO or the Pro should be fine, unless you want to pay high prices for those enterprise grade drives

TristanX You might not like this news:

The mainstream market is switching completely to DRAM-less SSDs

https://www.computerbase.de/2021-05/western...dram-less-ssds/ (article in German)

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: May 29 2021, 02:35 AM

Something like the Corsair MP510?

For SSD, minimally you should aim for a 250GB drive, but for some breathing room you should aim for a 500GB drive

DRAMless NVMe is still fine (there are good DRAMless NVMe drives like the SN550), but DRAMless SATA is a big no-no

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