Solved! Unknown Empty Slot in my Mother Board

[open2screens]

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 use this (https/www.newegg.com/global/in/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820147691) in that slot.

Picture of the Slot available in my Drive

https/drive.google.com/file/d/1aY6U02M0ZlEVILyievmYLvZjOZfHKQpE/view?usp=sharing

please let me know if you have any quires

 

[hang-the-9]

Edit... not an mSATA slot, the smaller cut out is too small, the lower post has it right, M.2

 

[jay32267]

The specs on CNET says that laptop comes with a 128GB mSATA drive.

https/www.cnet.com/products/toshiba-portege-z30-a1301-13-3-core-i5-4300u-8-gb-ram-128-gb-ssd/specs/

No idea why yours doesn't have it....but that could be what the socket is for.

 

[shmoochie]

According to this forum, it is a single sided type E M.2 connector for 3G and 4G modules which is why it is so close to the wifi card.

https/forum.toshiba.eu/showthread.php?78378-M-2-connector-in-Port%E9g%E9-Z30-A

Can you post a pic of the whole motherboard?

 

[ksnavinkumar]

According to this forum, it is a single sided type E M.2 connector for 3G and 4G modules which is why it is so close to the wifi card.

https/forum.toshiba.eu/showthread.php?78378-M-2-connector-in-Port%E9g%E9-Z30-A

Can you post a pic of the whole motherboard?

you are correct

https/drive.google.com/file/d/1e5xWOFwUs_OhfVSrtxGN0xndoL9zzDts/view?usp=sharing