How difficult is it to add Memory & SSD on the ThinkPad X240.

Hi.

Looking to purchase a new ThinkPad X240.
Browsing on Lenova website, they have Memory and SSD upgrades available. But at a higher price than I want to spend.
Would prefer to buy 8GB of memory and 256GB SSD at a cheaper price online.

Question for those who have upgraded hardware on this machine.

Is removing/replacing the HHD and Memory on this machine difficult?
Are they embedded into the machine?

Thanks.
TC.

 

There's one 4GB memory module soldered to the board on the X240, leaving one free slot and a 12GB memory maximum. I believe the bottom comes off the X240 with the removal of some screws, which gives you access to the memory and hard drive. It's all in the HMM if you want to take a look.

 

The X240 only supports a maximum of 8 GB RAM because there is only one slot and no RAM soldered to the system board.

 

Replacing HDD is really easy, just take the back cover off (all screws), taking care not to break the plastic clips, as they break really easily. There are YouTube guides available.

This is correct.

 

Hey Guys.

Thanks very much for your quick replies.
Found the Youtube demo regarding the memory replacement. Sensitive lifting the the cover, but doable.

One more quick question:
I am looking at Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Notebook Kit Version Internal Solid State Drive. Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E3W19CE for my SSD replacement.
It's a kit containing the SSD + Adapter. Performs the full HDD to SDD upgrade.

Is this SDD (840 EVO) compatible with ThinkPad X240?
If not can you recommend a compatible SSD having 250GB and software to perform the upgrade.

BTW: The specs on the X240 is 500GB HDD 7200pm, 2.5''.

Thanks.
TC.

 

Yep. SATA is SATA is SATA. The only concern you'd need to have would be if it was the right form factor (2.5"), which that is. You don't really need the kit version though; you could save a few bucks by just getting the drive itself (Amazon usually isn't the best/cheapest place to buy computer parts).

 

Thanks.

Your right, this SSD 250GB kit on Amazon is $135.00 a little more than what I expected.

Tiger Direct, Best Buy is $119.00 & Newegg is $123.00 for the SSD only.
Since this is my first time doing an upgrade to SSD, I wanted to play it safe and buy the kit version.

TC.

 

You know, the bizarre thing is that I had a Crucial M500 with my t440s before - and no matter what, the BIOS refused to detect it properly 2/3rds of the time. 2100 HD0 error. I tried another M500 (different capacity), same issue. Some people report that those drives work, but a few don't. I then got an 840 evo (figuring that Lenovo sells the machines with some version of the 840, so this had better work), and it's happy as a clam.