Can I upgrade my laptop with another SSD?
Can I upgrade my laptop with another SSD?
Hello, I'm considering adding another SSD to my Lenovo IdeaPad 3 15ARE05. Right now I have a ST1000LM035-1RK172 1 TB SATA Gen3 HDD and a small 128GB M.2 NVME SSD boot drive. My HDD is used for general storage, videos, photos, and other games. I mainly play competitive games, especially Valorant, and I've optimized my system by installing it on the SSD rather than the HDD—it runs faster and performs better. Recently, updates to these games require more resources, so I've had to shrink my system's pagefile to fit the game on the SSD. I'm wondering if it's possible to install another SSD in this laptop, since there seems to be an available M.2 slot.
There doesn't seem to be another M.2 slot useful for SSD in your laptop, not in what I could find.
I think your best option so far is to replace your current SSD with a larger one. Buy an enclosure too so you can clone your system over and reuse your current SSD as an external drive.
It could have been a different time when computers were bulky but offered ample space. Nowadays, laptops are slim, lightweight, and designed for performance. In 2010, gaming laptops featured SLI graphics, multiple drive bays, and large 18-inch displays.