Sandisk released the Extreme SSD in 60GB, 120GB, 240GB and 480GB capacity sizes. The performance changes a little with each capacity size with the 240GB model being the fastest.

Seagate, like many others, have included a total TB written warranty exemption. The 240GB and 480GB 600 SSD's are covered for up to 72TB written, while the 120GB models only go up to 36.5TB.

Looking at Lenovo's hardware maintenance manual pdf, it appears this machine can take either a 2.5mm SATA3 or an M.2 SSD drive. Is one preferable over the other in this situation?

By the numbers, the 480GB Series 730 wrote our 10GB mix of files and folders at 469.1MBps and a single 10GB file at 461.9MBps. It read the files and folders at 384.4MBps and the single large file ...

First up, the NAND. The M500 is the first SSD to make use of IMFT's 128Gbit 20nm MLC NAND dies. Specifically with the 480GB drive, you'll find 16 NAND packages each containing two such dies.

Class SSD with Enthusiast class performance This review covers the new Lexar NM600 series, this more affordable series 480GB model is plenty fast with a rated sequential read speed up to 2100 MB/s ...