“i dont understand why the manufacture is avoiding the answer... are they politicians?? based on the number of slots used, how many are available/not used for the customer to use for future upgrades without replacing any of the components????”
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I agree -- the Lenovo product expert is not useful Inside the case there is space for 2-3.5" drives, 3 SATA ports, 2-4pin SATA power ports. Mine included an extra SATA cable and 380Mm Sata Power Cable to power a single SATA device. In order to power another SATA component, I would have to purchase another SATA power cable and SATA data cable that are not included. The SATA power cable is not from the PSU but rather from the motherboard (a special Lenovo 4-pin connector). I installed a 2.5" SATA SSD 2TB in the 3.5" bay using a converter/mount and it works splendidly with no configuration issues. I have no reason to believe more than 2TB is an issue. Windows recognizes the drive and you can format it as GPT to support very large drives. I don't know if YMMV on this depending on what parts Lenovo places in your desktop, but everything works splendidly for me and I highly recommend this desktop!
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.There are only (2) M.2 connections. #1 is used by the installed Boot drive. (This IdeaCentre 5i ships with a 512GB M.2 2280 PCIe 3.0x4 NVMe solid state hard drive installed) you could replace this with a higher capacity (Max 2Gb I believe) but would have to deal with migrating the OS from one to the other. #2 is used by the Bluetooth/Wifi card (According to specification you could probably remove it an install one of the smallest M.2s her but the data sheet only says that the computer supports (1) M.2 drive and (2) SATA SSDs)
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.lol the way you ask is like a highschool math question. you are not my teacher and they're probably sick of school.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.has anyone else added a 2.5" ssd this way?
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