mSATA Enclosure for old laptop SSD

xdivino on 15/09/2021 - 18:03

I'm ripping apart my old work laptop and has a mSATA drive within,
i've had a look and there's naturally a mix of the confusion with the NVMe stuff and finding the right case/enclosure to suit the mSATA specifically.
I'm ok with either USB-C or normie USB for connectivity as new laptop has both, but don't want to buy the wrong enclosure and also don't wanna overpay.

Is there an Ozbargain approved mSATA enclosure to suit? Amazon seems to be pricy in this space and ebay seems too good to be true…

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xdivino on 15/09/2021 - 18:10

Ah i'm not clever, but it's confusing..

so it's an M.2 Drive, but Sata based.. so i'm thinking im needing to get a m.2 sata enclosure.. fml.. they really stuffed this one up.. HP say drive is mSATA but looking at it now looks like a M.2 drive that's more akin to the NVMe style.. long rectangle not short square….
- Hybroid on 15/09/2021 - 18:14
  
  https://www.amazon.com.au/ORICO-Enclosure-External-Solid-Ada…
  
  https://www.amazon.com.au/UGREEN-Enclosure-Aluminum-External…
  
  Something like that?
- Revrnd on 15/09/2021 - 18:14
  
  Went to provide a mSATA option, but if you can take a photo that'd help immensely.
  
  I have mSATA, M.2 SATA and M.2 NVMe and there's a few physical differences, if you can confirm exactly, it'll be easier to provide an option.
  
  https://www.amazon.com.au/Sabrent-EC-UKMS-MSATA-Drive-Enclos… was what I was going to recommend for mSATA.
xdivino on 15/09/2021 - 18:24

Really confusing until pulled it out of the laptop, the online spec sheet from HP says 250GB mSATA, but it's clearly a M.2 Drive just sata based since it has that letter M style keying to the connectors.. learning a bit today…

So i'm guessing I need an M.2 Enclosure that supports SATA based drives no NVMe and has the M+B keying.. what a pain..

Picture from a googling of the laptop model ssd
https://651c328d1de292af2c4b-28651361a0deac968501cb8b290a73f…

hope that make is more clear…
- xdivino on 15/09/2021 - 18:27
  
  +1
  
  Looks like this one suits and has the connectors built on so dont need to mess around with cables…
  https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B082NRJ5MS/ref=emc_b_5_t
  
  Gonna google solid for a bit to make sure it's suitable..
  - Revrnd on 15/09/2021 - 19:00
    
    +1
    
    https://dejanmarkovic.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/…
    
    A good representation of them all (M.2 and mSATA).
    
    Whichever one appears to be the one you've pulled, ID it using this.

mSATA Enclosure for old laptop SSD

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