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A Dell laptop I bought last year seems to have this SSD onboard:
SN740 NVMe, WD 512GB

Don't care much for Win11, and looking into swapping stock SSD with fresh one, to go Linux install.

This is a low-usage machine, nothing exotic, so this new SSD does not need performance.
What are, or make low-cost NVMe SSDs?

Note: It is unclear at this time if this machine is still supporting Legacy Boot, which, I believe is needed to allow Linux install from stick. Maybe the BIOS screen (or what ever it is called now) will show that.

Have you browsed Newegg?

Yes... and no.

Newegg, is a bit like Amazon, many outside vendors, some questionable merchandise sources.
No.

Anyway, I found that a comparable as stock grade Western Digital SSD, inexpensive as is.
I also learned a few tibits about SSDs form WD Support, like Pyrite versus Opal security bits, Gen. 3 and Gen. 4, and of course the form factors, 2280 versus 2240(?).

Current SSD, as described by WD:
https://documents.westerndigital.com/co ... me-ssd.pdf

Replacement candidate:
WD - BLACK SN770 500GB Internal SSD PCIe Gen 4 x4