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I think this SSD should work with my computer. Can someone please confirm this? Just want to make sure. It is a SATA III, M.2 2280:
https://www.amazon.com/Blue-NAND-500...1&sr=8-20&th=1
Thank you...
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New #14
One last thought: if you can see the M.2 socket in the laptop, does it have one key or two?
I'd like to think that if the laptop does not support NVME drives, there'd be two keys to prevent you from installing an NVME drive, which would have a single M key.
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It was have two. This is a picture of the card I took out of the slot. Thanks.
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If your port cannot accept a NVME M.2 device It will have Two plastic notches instead of one making impossible physically to insert a M.2 NVME drive without cracking it in two.
A picture of the slot would resolve everything.
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New #17
Not the SSD, but the "slot".
That is what determines which SSDs you can use.
The "key" is a little piece of plastic, that will block an SSD which doesn't have a matching "notch".
A B+M SSD will fit either "slot". An NVMe SSD will only fit in an M key "slot".
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Short version... yeah, this should work.
https://www.amazon.com/Blue-NAND-500...1&sr=8-20&th=1Last edited by Ghot; 19 Sep 2021 at 16:08.
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New #18
The socket, not the card.
A SATA M.2 card typically has both M and B slots, and will fit in a socket with just an M key (which is used for sockets compatible with both NVME and SATA drives). An NVME card will have just the M slot.
I can't speak to whether motherboard makers use a socket with a B key if the board only accepts SATA drives. They really should include that, just to keep people from inserting incompatible drives.
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@bobkn - I am replacing my m.2 sata card with another m.2 Sata card. Both have m and b slots/keys so it will work. Initially when I started this post I was hoping I could install a nvme card but I eventually found out that I am limited by the socket which is sata III- 600 Mb/s. Thanks all for your help.
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