SATA

Hello guys, I received a new laptop last week. It is a Dell Inspiron 15 7000. The version I purchased comes with a M.2 SSD which is the primary drive. It comes with a free HDD/SSD slot to which we can add a second drive. The laptop comes with a SATA cable. I added a Sandisk SSD to the free...

So, now I have somewhat deteriorating situation (depending).....I just have very simple question about these internal laptop hard drives that are working from standard SATA......this one has the standard SATA but also has the little tiny serial strip that attaches to the motherboard of the...

Hi Everybody, does anyone know the name of the connector for the second HDD? All I know it's not a SATA connector, because it doesn't line up when the SATA is facing it directly. I would like to use the second bay for another SSD. I took pictures, and posted the link to my Google Photos...

I want to buy a Lenovo Y520 notebook and everybody says I have to buy a PCIe M.2 SSD, but I want to buy a SATA-III M.2 SSD because it is cheaper, and I don't need the high speed that PCIe offers. My question: can the M.2 SATA-III SSD be connected to M.2 port if it has a PCIe interface? The...

I'm trying to choose between the two, is there any difference besides what slot they go into? Is the pcie faster than the sata? Thanks!

I just wanna know if it does work, I know it doesn't fit and all that. I guess I can create an external case for the HDD and put it from the laptop out instead of being inside the laptop. My problem is that my laptop HDD is slowly dying (it's slow and stutters I know is HDD cuz I have test it...

Dear Experts I have a Thinkpad W540. It has an M.2 slot. The slot was initially designed for the WAN card but I have seen people use it with SSDs. M.2 slots that are used for WAN (and the Wifi Card) are usually connected via PCIe. However, I'm not sure it is a PCIe nor what kind of PCIe...

Satellite L645D (PSK0QC-00K007) sata / ahci controller drivers for deployment. Pls. i have replaced the harddrive attempted many reloads of different copies of installation media. including windows 10. replace ram as well with known working. fails during media expansion. bios sees and displays...

Hi guys. A friend has given me a Sony VAio notebook and has asked if I can replace the hard drive with a ssd. Looking at the current drives connector...I've never seen one like it. It's not sata (definately not ide!) and the ssd I have is sata. Does anyone know if there is a converter available...

Hello, Recently, my hard drive has not been detected by my computer. I find that putting the SATA cable into another slot allows the BIOS to detect it, but only enough for the Windows logo to show up with the loading icon; after that, I get a blue screen with the frowny face, computer...

Hi everyone, I just bought a MBP i7 with a 250go SSD and a 1To drive replacing the superdrive. This second drive has very slow transfer rates. (It took it about 5 hours to copy 50 Gb from a firewire 800 external disk). It take ages to show the folder contents, (as if it needed to rest...

quick simple question can normal laptop HDD's work in server's with a raid card? or do they need be server grade HDD's my server is a Sun Fire X4150 unsure of the raid card model but the make is Sun same as the server

Hey folks, I have an HP DV9000 which had a working SATA 120GB HDD in it. I installed a 120GB SATA3 SSD and the bios does not see it. I tried to install Windows Vista and its not seen there either. The weird thing is, I put in a USB flash drive with Linux Mint on it and from within Mint I am...

Hi there, Before anyone comments asking why, it is for nostalgia and I suppose better performance (Maybe). (I'm really looking for an answer not why). I am looking to install either 32 or 64 bit Windows XP pro on my Acer Aspire E14 (E5-411-C9KS), simply for nostalgia and maybe better...

I upgraded my laptop with a new msata ssd, save all my files, did a fresh install of w7 in the msata ssd and formated the sata ssd i was using. i intend to use the msata as primary and the sata as slave to when i buy a new hdd to replace the 240gb ssd as storage. When i boot normaly my pc get...

Hi, getting the ASUS K501UW here https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DT49XN8/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER It says the SSD is 512 gb m2 Sata iii. Can I put in a Crucial MX300 275GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive - CT275MX300SSD1 in the spare slot for an...

Well i saw much topics with this problem but couldn't find solution. i tried replace my Dell studio 1555 hardrive with other one but it seems bios can't detect it, and when i put old one it works fine. i noticed one thing that working HHD is SATA II type and other one is III maybe that's the...

Hello, I have a laptop that has gone the way of the dodo, I believe it is either the battery or the power cord which has failed. I am not interested in restoring the laptop due to its age. The laptop HD is SATA, and I was wondering if I could plug that into my desktop SATA in order to retrieve...

Hello and thank you for your time. I have an ASUS ROG G752V laptop. I took out the HDD and replaced it with a SSD (Samsung 850 Pro) Running Windwos 10. So only have 1 SSD instaled. I was looking around in Samsung magician and noticed AHCI mode says "deactivated (IDE or RAID)" and SATA...

My laptop with only 1 sata port for HDD/SSD (no msata whatsoever) and thinking about replacing the DVD drive with an HDD caddy for that port to mount another HDD. Any thoughts on speed difference when using the internal sata port vs internal HDD caddy? Thanks!

I bought the acer aspire 15 e5-575g-53vg laptop off of amazon yesterday. Still waiting for it to arive. It has a sata port that is unused in it where there should be a cd/dvd drive and i was wondering if yall had any suggestions for what to put there other than the obvious lol. I was wondering...

Performance degraded when processing larger files after SSD swap for HD. Why would I have a slow down in Gateway NV53 after replacing hard drive with Toshiba 250gig SSD? My cpu is being occupied up to 100% and RAM is fully booked when I use the laptop with my Epson scanner (after about 10-15...

I am trying to get my new laptop to install windows 7 due to one of my printer drivers only works with windows 7 I managed to boot using my pen drive but i am stuck in the front asking me to install d sata drivers

I have a HDD from a HP laptop. I am using the Sabrent USB-SATA to access the drive via USB. When the external power is connected to the HDD it makes a faint, periodic, “chirping” sound. When I attach the SATA cable from the Sabrent unit, the noise stops, but the drive is not accessible. The USB...

I have an old 2.5" laptop hard drive with an IDE ULTRA ATA-6 interface. The laptop no longer works; so, I need to hook it up to my current computer that has SATA ports. Do you guys have any ideas on what to do? Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone, I own a ThinkPad E550 whose HDD interface is SATA III. My question is: can I deduce that also the DVD-ROM Drive connection is SATA III (even if the drive itself is, of course, SATA-I)? I'm asking this because I'd like to replace my DVD-ROM with a caddy, in order to install a SSD...

The title says it all, I'm building a portable laptop workstation through Origin, and I'm a bit unsure as to how I should build. I'm working with DAWs such as ProTools and Ableton Live, both 64-bit programs. Now, I usually have up to about 100 channels at least processing Audio and MIDI...

can i upgrade my Asus ROG GL752VW with Samsung SSD 850 EVO M.2 SATA 500GB and Corsair SO-DIMM DDR4 16GB PC19200 - CMSX16GX4M2A2400C16 (2X8GB) ?

Does anyone know if the optical is connected via SATA 3 for the ASUS N550JX-TH72T? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... I'm thinking about buying this but only if I can install an HDD caddy that accepts SATA III.

I was wondering if it is possible to raid 0 an samsung evo 850 500gb sata and m.2 ssd. The ssds: SATA: http://www.samsung.com/nl/consumer/memory-storage/ssd/850-evo/MZ-75E500B/EU M.2: http://www.samsung.com/nl/consumer/memory-storage/ssd/850-evo/MZ-N5E500BW The site might be dutch. laptop...

I installed a SSD via the odd slot on my laptop, and I have also done this with every laptop I have owned. If i plug the ssd in while the laptop is on and running the ssd opens up no problem. But If i reboot its gone. Until i take it out and put it back in while its on. The laptop I am...

hello, I'm new here, i want to ask a few questions about diy eGPUs. 1. can i use a SATA-expresscard adapter to connect the eGPU?(I don't have an expresscard slot, thunderbolt, and i have only one mpcie slot thats being used by wifi card) 2. If it is impossible, can i replace the Wi-Fi card...

Apologies if this is in the wrong category. A few month ago I dropped my laptop and my computer stopped working, after taking off the back I saw my hard drive has a big crack running right through it. I now get this screen when turning my laptop on: After googling what's wrong I realise that...

hi guys did some research within my budget..using it to play dota 2 csgo and college ..need help choose btw these laptops hp pavilion 14 i7-5500U(4mb cache 2.4-3.0GHz)-nvidia 840m-8gbram-500gb(5400rpm sata)-14" diagonal HD BrightView WLED-backlit (1366 x 768) Dell Inspiron 3542 i7-4510U...

I want to install a second HDD in my laptop. It has 1 HDD and 1 Optical Drive installed. I have opened it up and it uses the 'laptop SATA' connectors to connect both the HDD and Optical Drive to the motherboard. Can I replace the optical drive with a secondary HDD safely? And if so, how do I go...

Months back I took out the cd drive from my old system unit that ran on windows XP. I connected it to my notebook using the SATA to USB adaptor and it doesn't detect it at all! I've tried everything. It doesn't show up amywhere, device manager, disk management....yet nothing! When I first linked...

I know this is a very rare and strange request, and I understand it will take a bunch of parts and a lot of time to get working. I have a MacBook Pro 13" early 2011 I got for a steal with 2 broken USB ports. The issue is purely hardware based, a SMD component on the motherboard is missing. End...

I just received an Acer Aspire E11 111M C37Q laptop for Christmas. Its great so far but the small 32GB drive is killing me. I have looked at multiple places around the web and I can't determine if the drive is upgradeable. I know the size of the drive would have to be 2.5 inches. However, I'm...

Does the DELL Inspiron i7559-2512BLK have an M.2 sata port on it? thanks!

Got a nice deal on a laptop, came with a 256gb m.2 ssd, but that's gonna run out real quick after a few major games. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015PYYDMQ Don't know enough about laptops so was looking for recommendations for a good and well priced 2nd storage drive. Basically around a...

Hi guys, so few days ago I found my old rotten school laptop, I wasn't admin on it so I thought I might as well just take its harddrive out and format it with sata usb cable and reinstall operating system. I did format the drive through disk management, used full format. The drive is...

Ok guys, so I've been graduated already like a month ago, they failed to reset the given school laptop... So basically I own a laptop which is mine since i graduated but due to some errors, it couldn't be resetted and I'm not admin on it... like i can't open softwares and certain websites.. you...

Dear all, I have recently purchased the following Asus Notebook : https://www.asus.com/sa-en/Notebooks/N551JX/specifications/ It comes preloaded with Windows 8 which is upgradable to Windows 10. Since the automatic OS upgrade was making me wait, I decided to do a manual upgrade using a...

I just recently got a laptop and I'm not sure that it will be able to run any game that I may like in the future. It has a nice CPU, but it has an R5 graphics card which I know is not that great lol I am going to go with a low profile graphics card with this. I have a PSU that's a 220-Watt from...

Hello, I have a Dell XPS 15 l521x laptop and am in quite a conundrum. Just recently this week I started getting a "boot device not found" error on startup every single time I booted it up, and when I went inside the bios the hard drive, msata ssd, and also the cd drive disappeared from the...

Hi, I'm new to Tom's, and the board (I'm not sure if I should have started a new thread?) and I'm just learning how to upgrade my Inspiron 1545. I bought a Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250Gb and had the same problem as described in a previous post, getting it to connect...and I used a similar remedy...

can a HP pavilion dv6 3070tx running windows 10 will it take a sata 111 ssd. Thank you

I am going to buy one of these two laptops: 1.Turbo-X Blade GS i3n40-450 2VR Laptop, which has an Intel® Core i3 4000M, 4 GB DDR3 RAM, Nvidia GeForce GT 840M 2GB and SATA 500 GB 5400 rpm. 2.HP 15-af001nv Laptop, which has an AMD A8-7410 APU, 8 GB DDR3L-1600 SDRAM, AMD Radeon R5 M330 2 GB DDR3...

Which hard drive is better? 2 TB 5400 rpm SATA or 512 GB M.2 SSD And please give comparing details, thanks!

My Dell Inspiron 11 3148 Switches off suddenly in the middle of watching a youtube video. Then displays no bootable device. I enter BIOS mode and check options in LEGACY mode. There is no USB/HDD/CD option at all. My BIOS is showing no connections to the motherboard. I then reset BIOS to...

I have a Dell Inspiron 3520 and now every time I start the computer, it says "internal hard disk drive not found to resolve issue, try to reseat the drive." I ran the PSA on there and everything has a check on everything except for the hard drive which is a yellow triangle with a black...

whats the difference between the two? I was planning on buying an SSD and I came accross 2 samsung evo drives both with the exact same speeds but one is sata and the other is msata, which do I get? what is the difference?

alsuite 3 is only showing 1 sata when i have 2 and the icons in red. i think there may b a problem. can anyone help. thanks guys

I have alienware m18x r2 ... There is small spark in hdd sata cable connecter . . now motherboard is died ..please tell me solution... My system is completely dead

Hello guys I been wondering how SATA interface going down and how it slows down capabilities of speed in laptops.. We all know that SATA becoming lame and it slows down laptop storage disk performance. I was wondering why desktops has this port PCIe (x4) on motherboards and laptops not ? This...

Hi, I am working with an internal 750GB SATA HDD from Seagate. The HDD was operating fine previously with Win7 Ultimate installed as the primary HDD for desktop system. My goal was to wipe the HDD and reinstall Win7. I've used a few different disk wipe tools so far. I started with GDisk, but...

hey guys i am planning to buy the HP Compaq 15-s008TU Notebook but i want to upgrade it to an ssd so i want to know can i put an ssd in this laptop will it support it and which sata does this motherboard have SATA II or SATA III and also does it have AHCI i managed to find out the chipset on...

Hi there, Just one quick question: Can I use my "Slimtype DVD A DS8A8SH" as an external DVDRW using a SATA to USB cable? Additional info: I have an ASUS N56VZ laptop and I plan to buy an SSD for it and replace the DVDRW using a HDD Caddy. Hence the question above ^ Thanks in advance :)

Looking for NEW hard drive. I have read the Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop interface is SATA 2. I have also read on the same forum that it is SATA 1 and only supports 500gb hard drive that I currently have and that this Seagate would be a waste of money and no benefit...

Ihave finally decided which two laptops I think will be best for me and my budget. they are the Clevo p157sm-a and p150sm-a (details below) built by www.AVAdirect.com. I just have a few final questions like should i stay get the m2 sata SSD or not and if so how much will I really need if I am...