Upgrade Ideapad S10-2 with SSD-drive

I am wondering if it is possible to use one of the Mini PCI Express Card slots for a SSD drive and if there exists a compatible product in the marketplace. It would be great to use a SSD-drive as boot-drive and the harddisk for data. Does anybody know a solution? Thanks in advance

Hi and welcome to lenovo forum...
unfortunatly , even when you found a minipci-e SSD ... there is no option to boot from minipci-e ...
and only a few minipci-e cards will work at all ...if its not on the whitelist they wont work...
and SSD in 2,5" Sata-HDD form is faster, "cheeper" yes it is  and could replaced the HDD without  trouble like above..  
Minipci-e Cards
sincerely KalvinKlein
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