Thinkpad Z13: SSD Upgrade

Hey,

About a year ago I bought a Z13 as machine for development. I like the device because it's small enough to be easily carried around in travel and useable on the go but still powerful enough for some software development where I don't need a big workstation.

One issue that I had with the device that the maximum storage capacity was only 1TB.

After some research I found one of the few SSD's that exist, in the next bigger storage size 2TB and have the M.2 2242 geometry which the Z13 uses while also being single sided is the Western Digital SN740.

There are other's available which have a similar size but only in the smaller M.2 2230 size.

The only remaining is that the SN740 is a OEM device that isn't sold by retailers. However some Chinese sellers sell it on Ebay or Aliexpress.

The drive arrived yesterday, it fit perfectly in the M.2 slot of the Z13. Replacing the device was also relatively easy, just open the service manual and read the topic on replacing the SSD. All issues I had where my fault as I wanted to use the better NVME 4k formatting LBA while the Micron SSD that Lenovo sells is only 512. So yeah watch what you doing and read the manuals carefully or you waste your time fixing your own mistakes.

Screenshot below:

https://i.imgur.com/WT1QLJh.png