Hi
I recently bought this refurbished one (haven't received yet) from ebay. It seems the PSU is 180W. I want to upgrade the RAM and add an additional SSD.
Can anyone confirm if there is any restriction in SSD size which I can fit? The site says it can support max 256GB SSD. I want to use a bigger one. Have anyone tried that in this model?
Thanks.
The obvious thing to do is check the OEM specs…
https://www.lenovo.com/au/en/desktops-and-all-in-ones/ideace…
Storage
Some: Hard drive / SATA 6.0Gb/s, 3.5": 2TB 7200rpm
Some: M.2 Solid State Drive (SSD) / PCIe NVMe, PCIe 3.0 x 4, 32Gb/s: 256GB
It appears to have both SATA and M.2 NVMe so you should be able to use either.
Either way, you can install larger than 256GB drive, just choose your preferred bang for buck.
If your 510s is coming with a SATA drive, consider keeping it for backup or storage and buy an M.2 NVMe drive (they're faster).
Just an update to the forum members who might be interested to know about this SFF upgrade options:
The PSU is 180W. So GT1030 low profile is an option if you want to use graphics card. But I haven't tried it yet. Builtin Intel HD 630 can show 4k or 2k with 30Hz refresh rate. I am using a 2k monitor with 30 Hz. This SFF has HDMI version 1.4 which cannot play 2k/4k with 60 Hz . But if you upgrade your graphics then you will be able to use 60Hz.
There's 1 free SATA M.2 slot, 3 SATA data port (1 used by 2TB HD, 1 for optical drive and 1 free) but only 2 SATA power port (1 used by 2TB HD, 1 for optical drive). So you may want to use a SATA power splitter cable if you want to use an extra SATA HD. But I couldn't find enough space in the bay to place this extra SATA HD or to place SATA drive mount bracket.
But I used the SATA M.2 slot by using a PCIe NVMe SSD drive to upgrade my storage.
There's 1 free slot to use an extra DDR4 2400MHz memory.
Yeah, their max = max they provide.