| From: Tim Tisdall via talk <[email protected]> | I was hoping to at least get my data | off, but the SSD uses a M.2 interface which requires buying some sort of | adapter.
m.2 sockets really common now. Older ones are m.2 SATA. Your notebook is old enough that I'm 90% sure it would be m.2 SATA. Newer computers have m.2 NVMe sockets. Those will accept m.2 SATA devices anyway. There's a third class that I don't understand: M.2 AHCI. Many modern desktop motherboards have m.2 slots. Starting, I think, with the Intel 7th gen (7xxx) or perhaps 8th gen (8xxx). It's not that they couldn't do it sooner but it got compelling when NVMe became available: a lot faster than SATA. Just for fun, here's the cheapest one I've found on newegg.ca (not a recommendation): <https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813144164> Inconveniently for you, most notebooks with m.2 sockets don't have another disk interface. And they are awkward to open. Adapter cards for a desktop are about $25 and up: <https://www.newegg.ca/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=m.2+to+pcie+adapter&ignorear=0&N=-1&isNodeId=1> Summary: m.2 sockets are common. Recommendation: remove the drive from your computer. You don't want any of your experiments to damage your data. --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
