SATA

I have laptop which turns 10 next month. I want to change its HDD 500 Gb to SSD . I asked on Sony Support , but they said " its not recommended to do changes with storage as the company has shut down its operations in India " . He didn't bother to explain the technical reason. Is there really...

Hey, I recently wanted to dual boot Windows with Ubuntu. My Windows was supposed to be on my NVME drive and Ubuntu on my old SATA SSD. When I was checking if my PC could handle it I found out, that my BIOS is somewhat "broken". It doesn't show up that my NVME is connected even though I...

Hi there, Tom's Guide community! Recently, I've started to have problems booting up my MacBook Pro Mid-2012 with OS Mojave. When I press the power button, I hear the usual start-up sound, but instead of an Apple logo, the dreaded flashing folder with a question mark appears. When I looked...

Recently, i bought a HDD caddy to place more storage disk (considering my laptop only has 1 sata and power connector for 1 disk and 1 for 1 dvd rom). But after i place it into my laptop, my new placed HDD isn't read by my laptop (no idea why). But before this thing happens, my dvd rom also isn't...

can i use sata to pci-e converter to connect external graphics card for my laptop. iam using dell inspiron 14-3467.

thanks in advance for any help. I have an old desktop machine i'm parting out. I want to keep the data from it's secondary data storage disk drive and access it with a different windows system. There is no OS on this 1TB SATA drive (wd caviar black). So i removed the SATA from the desktop...

As soon as I powering my Laptop it asks for Hitachi hdd password please help me

Helping a friend install a new SSD in his Dell G3 laptop and when I was removing the HDD the SATA cable unplugged. It has some blue film on top of the cable and it doesn't have a connector to make the cable stay stay in the SATA slot. There is a white hinge thing that I can push on top of the...

Hi - I just connected a new 256GB SSD into a SATA chain along with a 128GB SSD (same brand and model). I formatted the drives as a single dynamic NTFS drive and now the total storage is saying 931GB. Have I done something incorrectly and should I reformat the drives again? If so how should...

I got a new Lenovo 130 recently, and noticed that the sata plug for the CD drive is pretty accessible once removed. I'm thinking there's a way to convert that to PCIE to run a low powered GPU but can't find anything to get a base built on. Any suggestions? Some basic research I've as to if this...

They are 3 plugs on the sata hdd what's the 3Rd one for please????

Does the Msi GS43VR 7RE work with M.2 PCIE SSD or only M.2 SATA III SSD. I heard different answers from different people, some say yes and some say no. How can i upgrade the SSD anyways because it only have 1 M.2 SSD alot

I want to change my laptop's dvd writer with a caddy and i would like to know what kind of sata that port is

If an older laptop doesnt read ssd, would it read it if connected via sata to usb cabel?

Hi everyone. I have a question I would like to ask. Which of the following would you choose to use in your laptop if you had one of each: 1) A 1 terabyte SATA SSD OR 2) A 500 gigabyte M.2 SSD Why would you choose this one over the other? Thank you.

I have a Toshiba Portégé Z30-A. In the Motherboard (intel core i7 4th gen) i can see an Empty 5+28 pin Connector. i wonder it should be a PCIe express slot for SSDs. so any one of you please let me know what i thinking was correct and please tell me know what kind of PCIe slot is that and can i...

hello. i want to buy asus fx570ud and i wonder whether it supports PCIE or SATA ssd. thanks for answering.

LG Gram 2018 has two m2 slots and on the motherboard it clearly says you can use SATA M2 or NVME M2. Laptop comes with M2 SATA and an open M2 slot. Could I put an M2 NVME in the second slot as drive D. I want to leave the initial Windows and LG installation intact on the M2 SATA but be able to...

Satellite L840 [Windows 10] Specific model and specs link here: http://www.mytoshiba.com.au/products/computers/satellite/l840/psk8ga-02700g/specifications It's got a 1TB (5400 rpm) SATA (not sure what gb/s? How could I check?) but whenever you use it it'll be hell slow and in task manager...

This is for wow and rts games mostly questions- is a 4k ips panel even worth looking at for extra 200? Intel optane vs the combo drives, optane is cheaper, seems more simplified(1 main drive)? Most specs are the same including I7 8750h 16gb ddr4-2666 17.3" FHD 144Hz IPS WLED-backlit NVIDIA...