VisionTek 1TB M.2 2242 NVME DLX4 PCIe Gen4 x4-901562

Faster then the stock 2242 M.2 that came with the Lenovo laptop during the 7 or 8 uses of the laptop, until the bad sector errors and then just dying. I can't use the words I would prefer to actually describe how worthless this was.

First off, somethings to keep in mind, this drive is specifically for the legion go. And, it takes a bit of inner windows knowledge to setup. Particularly using Dism, make an FFU dump of your OS. Then migrate and extends those partitions onto this drive. Also, used some partition software to extend the disc from 500gbs to the newly 2tbs. All in all, works great and love the extra space. Key notes: DISM will take abit to make a dump of the OS stack, like maybe 30 minutes but it’s worth it if you want to clone the OS. And, not worry about setting up a new image and key. You will also need something to put the drive in and to setup the image with DISM copy and apply commands. Microsoft has a couple of tutorials and even chatgpt can source you some commands in the cli.

What do you do when you want to expand the storage of a modern laptop that accepts only 2242 SSDs? After all, the goal standard seems to be 2280 SSDs. You can find 2230 for the Steam decks of the world but then have to figure out an extension so that the SSD can be installed correctly. There are only a couple of 2242 SSDs out there and only two that have a 2TB capacity. This is the more expensive of the two options but it works flawlessly! W00t!

So bought this for my Legion Go to replace the 512Gb internal. Works well. It does get quite hot, hitting a peak of 99c when testing. Read the warranty fine print, 5yr, or "Up to 1000TB Maximum Total Bytes Written (TBW) to flash by capacity -OR- Up to 250 insertion/removal cycles to the host" The total bytes written can be retrieved with CrystalDiskInfo or other similar utilities. To give an idea, my work laptops uses a NVMe m.2 and is about 1 year old and has only 26 TBW. So these should last a fairly decent amount of time. Speed is good as well.

Used this to replace a 256GB pcie 4 nvme from my Lenovo Z13. Works great so far and still shows fast results in crystal diskmark. Time will tell if the drive holds up. This is the only brand I could find in this form factor (2242) and with PCIe generation 4.