The Lenovo ThinkPad T450s is the quintessential modern ThinkPad: a matte black rectangle that's tough enough to go anywhere with all day battery life and a dreamy keyboard. It's modernized-no 2' thick hunk here, even if it's not as slim as the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. The T450s ('s' is Lenovo's slim. The base model ThinkPad T450s costs a very reasonable $881 and comes with a 2.2-GHz Core i5-5200U CPU, 4GB of RAM, a 500GB hard drive, Windows 8.1 non-Pro and a 1,600 x 900 nontouch screen.
I currently use a T530 with two storage drives (mSATA and SSD), but this laptop is a bit too bulky for me to carry around the office so I am considering the T450s.On the Lenovo US site, this laptop is configurable with three storage options:
1. Normal SSD
2. 16GB M2 SSD (pre-installed)
3. (optional) 3rd M2 SSD in place of the smart card reader.
Here is where I have some questions:
1. I am not sure if these parts are field replaceable (like the mSATA slot on my T530) or do I have to configure it online.
2. What kind of SSD fits in these slots? M2 is just the name of an interface which can support many sizes of cards.
M.2 Ssd
3. I don't think RAID is possible, but just confirming.4. Is it possible to select individual drives for booting; as on the T530 where each drive appears in the boot device options menu (F12 key during startup).