In the near future, I plan to use the mSATA port, the 2.5" SATA and the UltraBay expansion as drives. Is this supported in the BIOS? Can I boot from mSATA? This will most certainly work, as that's actually what I'm doing with my T430 right now. However, keep in mind that the mSATA slot will only ru...

Wait, the heatsink/fan of the T430 NVS is actually better than the regular T430?
I was actually contemplating doing the same thing as OP, so I'm actually wondering this too except I have the NVS T430.