Does the Toshiba Satellite L640 Take an NVMe SSD?
Toshiba Satellite L640
Every one of 5 field reports observed SATA storage rather than NVMe.
That is useful evidence about the reported machines, but it does not prove that every configuration lacks an NVMe slot or that the installed SATA drive is 2.5-inch rather than SATA M.2. Check the service manual, connector, dimensions, and current drive before ordering.
Field reports can’t tell us whether the SATA drive is a 2.5-inch bay or a SATA M.2 slot, nor which M.2 length fits — check the service manual before you buy.
Reported by field data
- Storage controller:
- Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller
- Platform:
- Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller
- Drives seen:
- INTEL SSDSC2CW18, SAMSUNG SSD PM87
Drives people actually had installed when they ran the report — not a compatibility list, and not the only drives that fit.
Capacities seen
- 256 GB (50%)
- 180 GB (50%)
Sizes found installed in field reports — not a ceiling. Larger drives work fine.
How we know
This answer is derived from 5 independent hardware reports for the Toshiba Satellite L640, of which 0% 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.
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Storage interfaces derived from linuxhw/LsPCI, licensed CC-BY-4.0.