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!