SATA

My girlfriend is looking at buying a HP Pavilion x360 with a 128 GB M.2 Sata SSD. I know she'll need something larger for storage than that 128 GB. Can you put in a 2.5" hard drive or SSD using SATA 3 along with the M.2 SSD or do they occupy the same space and you can only use either or. Also...

Anyone here have any experience with sata vs pci-e x4 SSD for VR games and apps? Just wondering if there is any noticeable improvement to loading.

I'm trying to figure out if this laptop has a sata drive or an ide drive HP Pavilion dv5-1235dx https://www.cnet.com/products/hp-pavilion-dv5-1235dx/specs/ It cannot turn on, so I'm not sure how to find out.

HELP ME PLEASE ASAP. MY BIOS CAN READ MY HDD BUT IN MY SATA CONFIGURATION IT'S IN CDROM AND IN BOOT IT'S PXE-MOF: EXITING PXE ROM. Help me please :'(

What are the specs of the asus g60v NOT g60vx or any of that!! Particularly ram type Ddr3? Sata or ide Gpu specs How many drives does it hold and how many dimm slots

My Alienware 15 R3 has 1 NVME ssd 256G (THNSN5256GPUK NV) and 1 7200 rpm SATA (HGST). For better performance, I want to upgrade them to Samsung 960 Pro 512G and 850 Pro SSD (SATA) 1T. But what holds me is the temperature. Hwinfo64 reads the idling temperature of the THNSN5256GPUK is 41 (C), and...

I'm trying to upgrade my Acer Predator G9-593 but it comes with a M.2 SATA III in and M.2 Form Factor. How do I do this? I've seen kets you can buy for an extra $20 which allow you to put the new M.2 SATA III drive into (in a sort of case) with a USB Connector on one end and some sort of M and...

My A515-51-589E has a 2280 slot with M-Key. Would it support PCIe or only SATA? I did not find any options in the BIOS. HWiNFO shows only 2 PCI Express x1 which are used for CardReader and Ethernet + WLAN. Would anyone have any thoughts how I can find out? Much appreciated. Thanks, Johannes

ok, normally i'm a very d.i.y. guy, with many builds under my belt. but with a laptop i went the outside help route. to avoid TLDR - i bought a new crucial 512gb sata M.2, and a seagate 2tb spinner to replace stock 256gb/1tb in MSI GE62 MVR 7RG. the technician was only able to install the...

Hi, I am using Lenovo Yoga 11e. It is running Windows 10, 128GB Samsung SSD. I used the Samsung magician utility and found that the sata interface support is only 1.5Gbps. How can I get support to 3Gbps SATA2 please?

So for school I'm learning Windows Server, and I will be expected to run several VMs (up to 7, according to a prof) at once. I plan on getting a custom laptop from Sager, and adding in storage to make it work the best. I'm just not sure how I want to go about it. My laptop from the last two...

Hi guys, Just bough MSI GL62M with regular 1TB SATA hdd in it and decided to upgrade it to Samsung 960 EVO M.2-2280 250GB PCI Express 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive, SSD has been installed with no issues, fitted perfectly, put the 15(!) screws back but in BIOS the disk is detected under...

Hi all I have a HP Pavilion DV6 - 4023TX laptop that has a 320GB Sata 3Gb/s HDD but I need to upgrade the HDD I have looked up the manual from here: http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c02680466 and on page 2 it says "Supports all Serial ATA (SATA) 12.7-mm, 9.5-mm, and 7.0-cm (2.5-inch) hard...

Iam located in kenya and i need a spare part for hp g1 350 i.e sata cable connecting hard disk to motherboard. Any help will be appreciiated

HI I wish to install SSD in ASus R558U DM701d . It is possible if yes, can you please let me know which SSD will it support . will it be M sata or sata ?

Hello! I want to upgrade my ROG GL552VW. Want to change the optical drive to an SSD. My question, which generation SATA is by the optical drive? The SATA 1 and 2 have 150 and 300 MB/s speed, which is below to the SSD's speed (450MB/s). My laptop have the HM170 chipset. In the specification I...

Hi I have laptop Sony Vaio VGN-CR354 with - Sony VGN-CR354_B -232GB FUJITSU MHY2250BH ATA Device (SATA) full specification: http://www.sony-asia.com/support/product/vgn-cr354 I want to upgrade the HDD to SSD Is it possible to connect PCIe drive on it ? If not can I use adapter or...

Hi, my laptop every now and then fails to boot. when i go to bios there is no hdd in the sata settings. Now i noticed, that when i unscrew the hdd adapter (which is attached with just one screw to the mainboard!!) from the mainboard and screw it back on, it boots again for a while and the whole...

Hi, Can anyone tell me if my Sony Vaio VGN-AR21S supports SATA III? Bought a SSD with SATA III to boost te performance, but not sure this will work. Appreciate your comments. Regards, Robin

Good Day! Everyone. I am planning on buying around 400x Sata 2.5 Hard Disk Drives as a bulk for a school which has more than 200 laptops and desktop running,. The seller says all drives are used but tested and are healthy. but i want to make sure i don't buy some defective hard drives so i want...