Whenever an industry finds itself amid a supply shortage, prices are the first thing to rise, and interesting alternatives to everyday products are usually the next to appear. The PC storage market seems to have produced its own example. In a recent review of the Lenovo ThinkBook 14 G9 IPL, Notebookcheck found a 512GB NVMe drive from YMTC, which is a known Chinese NAND manufacturer. Now, the drive works as intended, but its performance is rated slightly below average for an office laptop. The detail that matters for most consumers, though, is the fact that the same laptop can now…