Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 3 RAM & M.2 SSD UPGRADE Tutorial 

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How's your e14 now, do you recommend it?

A thermal pad is recommended, however it is not entirely necessary. The thermal pad can ensure that you get the best performance out of your m.2 SSD while under heavy load/high temps. I may install one at a later date, as I did not receive one with the drive I bought. Thanks for watching!

It's not officaly supported but it works.

Is better the 57000u just for 67$

I have the IPS 100%. Personally, I'd avoid the TN panel. They're cheaper but the color reproduction isn't as good and it has poorer viewing angles. Either of the IPS panels would be a good choice, the difference between the 2 being their level of color reproduction accuracy. I hope this helps. Thanks for watching!

You should be able to upgrade the 2242 SSD, I would invest in an enclosure that supports 2242 SSDs and clone the original OS drive and swap them over. Thanks for watching!

Yes you can Update 8gb onboard 8gb-16gb maximum

@@akiraflex thanks!

Did you fix it?

The default setting Lenovo sets for this model is 150% because its a 14 inch display that has full HD, so a lower setting might make everything look a bit small for some people. I like it on 100% though because its still ok for me and I like having more screen real estate.

Yes there shouldn't be an issue with crucial. I used a crucial drive in a friends laptop and it works great! Thanks for watching!

really work bro? i want buy it too

i got it with 3200 cl16 hyper x 40gb no issue at all

Hi Bert, it's important to note the way the m.2 drive connects to your laptop, it will be either SATA or NVMe. NVMe is faster, but with speed comes more heat. I would say most laptops are utilizing NVMe, however most laptops do not have the room for a heatsink. Therefore, if you are doing the upgrade yourself, I'd stick with a Gen 3 NVMe M.2 drive as the Gen 3's don't get very hot and using one without a heatsink should be fine. That said, each system is different and not all parts are made equally, so take what I said as my opinion only. Thanks for watching.

@@GizmoJoeReviewsTech Thanks for your useful advice!

If you want to boot from 2nd drive I had to remove the internal one. Also if you use a clone utility make sure you turn off bitlocker first. I installed a crucial 2tb. I then cloned the built-in 256gb to 2nd drive. I found that switching boot order still cause boot from mve0 as opposed to 2nd drive. However I didn't mind having to remove the mv0 drive since it in effect is a fresh factory copy and setup. So use free crucial clone, shut down and then remove smaller drive. It's possible that if you wiped out the first drive you can get system to boot from 2nd drive. I was not willing to risk messing up the windows install. I recommend you remove the factory drive and it's a nice fresh install you have in case of some drive or issues down the road.

No it does not. Thanks for watching!

Hi Ren, it's still my every day laptop. Still feels like the performance is the same. Overall pretty happy, however I do think it's bit bulkier than some of the competition. That said, I think the price to performance ratio is excellent. Good value. Thanks for watching!

@@GizmoJoeReviewsTech what available here in my place is e14 g3 but sadly its a TN panel model. you think its ok?

Please help 🙏🏾

Hey its not so bad. That RAM cover is not fixed with any screw. You can just pull it up.