Can I upgrade the drive?
Just bought this: Lenovo Yoga 300-11IBR 80M1 - 11.6 as my son's first laptop. I thought it was a bargain and found out it was because the system drive is a 32gb one. With Windows 10 Home on it that actually leaves just over 8gb for apps and files!
I thought it was an msata drive and that I just could hop on to Amazon and buy a bigger one. I then found the full spec online, and it is actually an eMMC drive, embedded in the motherboard!
My question is the following: has anyone opened that laptop? will I found a msata slot or a sata connector in it - or am I stuck with this ridiculously small storage?
Cheers
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Thanks for the answer. The laptop is a disappointment, I bought it in a rush in time for a birthday. As soon as a few programs are installed and the Windows updates start kicking up, the laptop will be unusable... They should not be allowed to sell laptops with such configuration.
da Fred Gaine
If you have a money-back option, i suggest you utilize it and go for a Yoga-300 model 80M100TPHV. This has a 500g mechanical HDD which you can replace with an SSD and buy a cheap USB enclosure for the HDD to use it as external storage. I'm not sure if the 11IBR model even has a SATA/M.2/mPCI-e port available (or it has been removed from the mainboard). Even if a port is available, it might not recognize an expansion SSD/HDD. A good starting point is to look at the UEFI setup program: if you can alter the boot device options (even if only the eMMC is present), you may be able to get it to work with 2 drives, but there is no guarantee for it to work and even flashing the UEFI with a possibly cooked version may be involved (say goodbye to warranty)
da datawraith236
The SATA connector not enough.
da Dawid Łukasiewicz
Can someone also help me i have sata connector and hdd 2.5 but when i try to insert it the main 32gb drive wasnt able to detect ang it will detect the new hardrive .
Any ways that i can copy its original os to the hard drive that i connected .
Thanks
da dingson_20