A Dell laptop I bought last year seems to have this SSD onboard:
SN740 NVMe, WD 512GB
Don't care much for Win11, and looking into swapping stock SSD with fresh one, to go Linux install.
This is a low-usage machine, nothing exotic, so this new SSD does not need performance.
What are, or make low-cost NVMe SSDs?
Note: It is unclear at this time if this machine is still supporting Legacy Boot, which, I believe is needed to allow Linux install from stick. Maybe the BIOS screen (or what ever it is called now) will show that.
Computer stuff: Low-grade NVMe SSDs?
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Yes... and no.
Newegg, is a bit like Amazon, many outside vendors, some questionable merchandise sources.
No.
Anyway, I found that a comparable as stock grade Western Digital SSD, inexpensive as is.
I also learned a few tibits about SSDs form WD Support, like Pyrite versus Opal security bits, Gen. 3 and Gen. 4, and of course the form factors, 2280 versus 2240(?).
Current SSD, as described by WD:
https://documents.westerndigital.com/co ... me-ssd.pdf
Replacement candidate:
WD - BLACK SN770 500GB Internal SSD PCIe Gen 4 x4
Newegg, is a bit like Amazon, many outside vendors, some questionable merchandise sources.
No.
Anyway, I found that a comparable as stock grade Western Digital SSD, inexpensive as is.
I also learned a few tibits about SSDs form WD Support, like Pyrite versus Opal security bits, Gen. 3 and Gen. 4, and of course the form factors, 2280 versus 2240(?).
Current SSD, as described by WD:
https://documents.westerndigital.com/co ... me-ssd.pdf
Replacement candidate:
WD - BLACK SN770 500GB Internal SSD PCIe Gen 4 x4
The other farm cats didn’t super love him but the chickens thought he was alright so he became a chicken.