ThinkPad P16 G2: Lenovo should offer more SSD storage slots

If you are looking for a powerful laptop for serious work like CAD, video editing or photography, look no futher than the Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 2. This big and thick 16 inch workstation laptop is hard to beat when it comes to performance. It has all the bells and whistles, great screens and of course the most powerful Nvidia RTX GPUs and Intel CPUs. It can even take in up to 192 GB of RAM. 

The ThinkPad workstation, which we recently reviewed, is extremely generous with regards to its features, except in one area: Storage. This gigantic workstation that weighs 3 kg only offers two storage slots. While this is better than most laptops and means that the Lenovo ThinkPad P16 G2 can offer up to 8 TB of storage (2x 4 TB), past ThinkPad workstations used to offer more: ThinkPad P15 G2 and ThinkPad P17 G2 had three M.2 slots, meaning their limit was 12 TB. 

Of course, more relevant than the forebearers of the ThinkPad is the current competition. HP makes the ZBook Fury 16 G10, which is a 16 inch workstation that offers similar configuration options as the ThinkPad P16 Gen 2 - except HP puts in four M.2 2280 slots, allowing for up to monstrous 16 TB.

While that is a bit overkill, we do think Lenovo should expand the storage capabilities of the ThinkPad P16 G2. After all, the much thinner and lighter ThinkPad P1 G6 also offers two SSD slots. Lenovo should go back to offering three M.2 2280 slots, which would give the P16 an advantage over the P1 while closing much of the gap to the ZBook.