Sorry I haven’t bought a laptop in over 10 yrs so don’t know what they are doing these days.
Try this method. Open command prompt (cmd)
type this
wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey
Press Enter. It should give out the product key.
If the product key is in BIOS, upon reinstallation, system will automatically get that.
Just a word of caution. Do not use an electric screwdriver on laptop. Don’t be that lazy as it can easily strip the tiny screws. Looks damn easy to replace HDD and memory.
Lol yea I won’t. Have been part of robotics team and stripped my share of screws already 
. Plus I have no electric screwdriver so old fashioned manual way it is especially on these tiny ones.
Another question since I’m not very knowledgeable . But what do the architecture type mean?
I saw some that are:
They are all NAND but what is the difference? Does it matter what I buy?
Hello from my hospital bed.
I’m thinking you normally have two issues of capacity and performance.
So ensure you have an SD slot, you’ll always have some media lower performance needs which you can move to SD and preserve your SSD for performance needs. So apps data on SSD media on SD.
That way you can buy in the future another or larger SD and swap them around.
Sweet spot of SD is around 200GB, buy one then later buy another name swap them so you always have capacity. Then a smaller SSD will last you a long time.
I have a 6 year old laptop and has I think 200GB SSD but I swap out 2 128GB SD and it’s working approach.
SD investment if you buy infrequently and buy larger sweet spot are rarely bad investments. You can use them later in life as backups, 2nd copies, you store in another places.
How are you doing?? Feeling better?
Yes thanks. In hospital bed and all I have to do is get better. Better than this time tomorrow biting on something while they straighten my wonky leg.
Got my laptop and my Anker charger with me so it’s sleep, piss in bottle, check online, repeat.
Oh what happened to you? Hope you are alright. And I think I’ll stick to the swapping HDD to SSD plan. 1TB SSD is not expensive at all and will be enough for long time for sure. Next will be swapping RAM if all goes well with SSD swap
SSD / Flash is best for boot drive and apps. Limit its size to budget. Complement the SSD with SD.
Broke my leg 36 hours ago.
Went from seeing this happy on bike
To on the ground with broken leg
To hospital and the healing begins. No regrets, I’m very strong and can get better fast.
This is my travel laptop, has SD card in it and lots of media so not bored, got WiFi and has cellular if no WiFi.
Nice set of collection you have to pass time. Hope you recover fast! And beautiful scene indeed
Really hope you get better soon!!! Your health always comes first
Ouch, sorry to read that! Was it a pedal bike or a motor bike?
Or an e-bike! That would be a great field for Anker to get into, amirite? (As long as it doesn’t crash. Sorry mate).
SD cards have much lower R/W speeds and IO rates compared to HDDs though, so it’s really best for specific lower size files.
You do NOT want QLC. TLC/3D technologies are very good for average consumer.
Ok thanks for that information. But what difference is it? Not sure if you can explain it here or you can just point me to a good resource so I can read about it
When it comes time to reinstall Windows, you might want to try the Windows Media Creation Tool at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 and activate it using your Microsoft Account; Microsoft now keeps track of your licenses you log in with and can automatically re-use them when you install windows. This method helps you avoid some of the bloatware that Dell puts on, and brings you straight to the current version of Windows instead of needing to do updates.
Yea I figured that and got that drive ready. Just need to buy the SSD now and install Windows
https://www.howtogeek.com/444787/multi-layer-ssds-what-are-slc-mlc-tlc-qlc-and-mlc/ looks quite accurate. It’s just a matter of balancing price, performance and reliability. TLC from a quality brand (Samsung, Micron, Adata, Intel) is the sweet spot.
Not small file sizes but where a lower MB/s is fine.
Typical SD good use is media, like downloaded offline Netflix which needs only 2GB/hour = 0.5MB/s so SD easily copes, or backups of your key files from your SSD.
A large SSD is simpler but a smaller SSD and a large SD is also viable for many and the SD can be repurposed over its life.
SD and flash drives are definitely good to have for that kind of reasons.
Also thanks everyone again. After that information by @osnelson, I decided to spend a little more and buy Crucial instead of Inland Professional from Microcenter. Inland Professional doesn’t have the reliability I would like tbh
