mSata vs Sata?

[Matteo De Vellis]

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?

 

[cdabc123]

different connection.

 

[Sakata]

Msata is smaller is generally more for laptops, I wuld say stick with the SATA.

 

[jldevoy]

sata is a normal drive; mSata looks like a stick of ram that plugs into a special connector on the motherboard on 1 thin end.

 

[TechyInAZ]

Msata was designed for ultrabooks and small laptops. It allows you to have extremely small drives in those laptops instead of having big bulky 2.5' drives hogging a lot of space and spewing out heat.

 

[bazzarooney]

Different connection type, SATA is the traditional 2.5 Inch drive form factor with regular sata and sata power ports mSATA is a small add in board that connects to a Mini PCIe connector on the motherboard.

 

[danny2000]

I use a Samsung 840 EVO mSata drive on my desktop computer. it doesn't use a cable as it plugs into a special mSata slot on your motherboard. Newer boards have mSata slots on them. There are also M.2 slots/drives but I believe that they end up using some of your PCIe lanes.