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Does the Lenovo IdeaPad L340-15IRH Gaming 81LK Take an NVMe SSD?

Lenovo IdeaPad L340-15IRH Gaming 81LK

NVMe storage was observed in reports for this laptop.

Reports
146
Saw NVMe
93%
Fastest link observed
PCIe Gen3 ×4

The fastest link we saw in real machines was PCIe Gen3 ×4. That is a floorobserved in field reports, not the slot’s ceiling — a faster drive still works because PCIe is backward compatible; it simply runs at the slot’s speed.

Field reports can’t tell us the physical connector, how many slots are empty, or which M.2 length fits. Check the service manual and the installed drive before you buy.

Reported by field data

Storage controller:
Intel Corporation Cannon Lake Mobile PCH SATA AHCI Controller
Platform:
Intel Corporation 8th Gen Core 4-core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [Coffee Lake H]
Drives seen:
WDC WD10SPZX-24Z, Shenzhen Unionmemory Information System Ltd. AM610 PCIe 3.0 x2 NVMe SSD 128GB, 256GB, Sandisk PC SN520 x2 M.2 2242 NVMe SSD

Drives people actually had installed when they ran the report — not a compatibility list, and not the only drives that fit.

Capacities seen

  • 1 TB (76%)
  • 2 TB (12%)
  • 500 GB (9%)
  • 750 GB (3%)

Sizes found installed in field reports — not a ceiling. Larger drives work fine.

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How we know

This answer is derived from 146 independent hardware reports for the Lenovo IdeaPad L340-15IRH Gaming 81LK, of which 93% observed an NVMe drive. We read the PCI device list in each report to tell NVMe apart from SATA.

Check it yourself

On Windows, open Task Manager → Performance and click your disk to see its model and type. On Linux, run lsblk -d -o NAME,TRAN,MODEL and read the TRAN column.

Storage interfaces derived from linuxhw/LsPCI, licensed CC-BY-4.0.