My Levano V14 laptop

[Eric Kazer]

Hi, 

Just got my Levano laptop. It's faster than I expected. Get pretty high marks. Drive is fast CPU is Decent. I tested it under a synthetic load. Haven't installed anything on it yet.

[icovelev]

Nice. How much ram it has? And is there a 2 gb reserved for the graphics like on previous amd ryzen mobile processors ?

[Eric Kazer]

8GB expandable to 12, and probably 2 for iGPU (at least speced.)

[Eric Kazer]

Just updated BIOS. Used Lenovo Vantage. Can't get any easier.

[Eric Kazer]

[Eric Kazer]

I bought a WD green 2.5" SSD. I am waiting for UPS. It's a 2 TB SSD.

 

https://www.newegg.com/western-digital-2tb-green/p/N82E16820250151?Item=N82E16820250151

 

This is the link.  I paid 200 for it. USD. I think it will be a awesome upgrade to this PC.

 

This will fill the 2.5" drive SATA bay.

[Eric Kazer]

Also Install Feature Update 2004.

[Eric Kazer]

So,

I installed the 2TB SSD in the available 2.5"  SATA Bay. it worked fine. I initialized and formatted the drive on another PC with a hard drive dock. 

 

Right click the Start Menu icon

Find the drive, right click on the drive and initialize the drive. 2 TB or under MBR is ok.

After initializing the drive it can be formatted. Format the drive with a new simple volume.

The drive will show in This PC, My Computer or whatever it's called.

Name the drive something appropriate. Like "Storage" in my case.

After doing this I installed the drive in the laptop. It showed as Storage and worked flawlessly.

[Eric Kazer]

I will say, that it was plug and go after Initializing and formatting the drive. Lenovo probaly expect you to upgrade storage, so it works out of the gat.

[Eric Kazer]

This is the disk management on my laptop. The "Simple Volume" spans the whole drive. 

 

I have the supplied PCIE NVME drive that was supplied with the laptop, and the 2TB SSD that I installed. Disk 0 is the 2 TB SSD, and disk 1 is the NVME drive that came with laptop.