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Many recent laptops have mini-PCIe slots. You can put a credit card sized SSD in that slot as your boot disk, and then use the 2.5" drive bay for spinning medi
by rogerbinns 15y ago
Many recent laptops have mini-PCIe slots. You can put a credit card sized SSD in that slot as your boot disk, and then use the 2.5" drive bay for spinning media with lots of space. Here is an example one from Intel with pictures: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167040 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167...
- justincormack 15y agoYou cannot put an msata drive in a pcie slot without a pcie to sata controller. You can get these eg http://www.sunmantechnology.com/system-ip/usb-i2c-fml.html http://www.sunmantechnology.com/system-ip/usb-i2c-fml.html but the fact that they are the same slot does not mean they are compatible.
- rogerbinns 15y agoThere are indeed important details. This link shows the compatibility and potential issues if you use a Lenovo laptop: http://forum.notebookreview.com/lenovo-ibm/574993-msata-faq-basic-primer.html http://forum.notebookreview.com/lenovo-ibm/574993-msata-faq-...