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Possible to connect this SSD to a SATA connector?

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HaRuMaN:

--- Quote from: SNAAKE on January 31, 2012, 04:30:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: HaRuMaN on January 31, 2012, 04:18:00 pm ---AFAIK, that drive plugs into a PCIe slot.

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you should ban him for questioning you!

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Rofl 

MonMotha:
What you have there is very likely what is being called "mSATA".  Basically, it's SATA on a mini-PCIe slot.  I very much dislike this because they're not really compatible in any way whatsoever.  They just re-used the connector because it was convenient.  It would be like putting Ethernet on a USB connector "because we had a lot of them laying around" (hey, kinda like the JVS IO "standard").

If indeed this is mSATA, you could theoretically just get a special cable to hook it straight up to a normal SATA port, but I'm not sure anyone makes one.  They're intended to get dumped into specially designed laptops.  You could try hacking up a SATA cable and soldering it down to the right places on the connector, but uh, yeah.  Good luck: it's small, and it has to work at 3GHz.

If this is NOT mSATA and is in fact a real mini-PCIe card that just happens to have an SSD implemented on it (these were made, but I've never been able to find one - I'd kinda like one for my laptop, actually), then there's no way to hook it up to a standard SATA connector (because it's not SATA), but you could either put it in a standard mini-PCIe socket or buy a mini-PCIe to PCIe 1x carrier card.

Whatever you have, it's a Dell part.  Dell can probably tell you what it is specifically, but they probably won't give much help beyond "put it back in your Mini-9".

lilshawn:
sigh... do I REALY have to do ALL the googling??


http://www.minipciessd.net/

MonMotha:
None of those appear to be standard mini-PCIe size (either full or half).  They're all about "one and a half" size.  That's what was commonly used in the netbooks, but it won't fit in a standard mini-PCIe slot.  My recollection is that many of those are also not actually PCIe but rather mSATA or similar with a proprietary pinout.  At least nobody's ever been able to verify to me that they're actually standard mini-PCIe electrically.

ark_ader:
Wow that looks cool.  How big is the capacity? 20gb?

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