Thinkpad Yoga - disk replace SSD SATA vs M.2

I'm wondering about buying a yoga thinkpad with 500gb SATA disk 7mm + 16gb SSD M.2
1. change 500gb  7mmSATA to 128GB Vertex 450 7mmSATA 3 2.5 "SSD
Sata 128 SSD system partition + 16gb M.2 for cache
or
2. change 16GB SSD M.2 to 128GB MyDigitalSSD M.2 SC2 Super Cache SATA III 2 42mm 6G 
Sata 500gb HDD for storage + 128gb M.2 for system partition
which drive and controller will be better for the system partition and will have better performance?

Both the 128GB MyDigitalSSD M.2 and the 120GB Intel Pro M.2 are 42mm and should fit the TPY.
The TPY's M.2 interface seems to be SATA 3.1 (not the potentially faster PCIe or SATA 3.2 express), which should be sufficient for current SSDs. I hope Lenovo did not somehow cripple the M.2 interface (as they did with some SATA interfaces in the past). Does someone have any performace numbers?
The MyDigitalSSD is available from Amazon.com. On can get it shipped worldwide with services like MyUS.com. For the Intel Pro M.2 I could not find a supplier.
I am considering replacing both disks resulting in 120GB M.2 plus 250+GB 7mm SATA and diabling the caching software.

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