What you are asking for does exist: aliexpress.com/ite…uct Personally I would go with a USB caddy though - it's what I did on my old school HP ProBook 4520s. It does sport a PC express slot so I fitted a USB 3 card and connected my drives via that. Sadly Windows 11 won't boot from that port (I built it on another laptop - it just bluescreens on this one)
It may exist, but that isn't it. That items is just a mislabelled product that could be either SATA Express to PCI-E M.2 or U.2 to M.2 - likely the latter as that's mentioned several times in the description.
It won't function the way you want on a normal SATA port.
Not aware of.
The only important thing about your device is your data/files. So just ensure you have 3 copies of all this in 3 locations - somewhere else in your property, somewhere else in another property and also in the cloud somewhere. If the worst thing then happens, you can obtain another device and subsequently access your copied data. You will need to define a frequency on how often you make this copied data/files and the methods you will choose.
Your post isn't terribly clear and I can't tell whether you want to fit a new drive you can reuse to an old laptop or if you're asking if you can connect your current old laptop drive to a future laptop.
Generally speaking M.2 sockets do typically carry an SATA connection so many laptops will allow you to connect an SATA drive to an M.2 socket.
The reverse is rarely true though, SATA ports do not carry PCI-E (NVMe) connections so you can't connect an M.2 drive to a normal SATA port.
'Rarely' because there was a short lived standard called SATA Express that did carry a PCI-Express signal, but not many drives used it so it quickly stopped being included in systems.
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To be clear I have an old laptop which takes a SATA 2.5inch drive. I have taken out the CD drive and replaced with a cartridge which can take another SATA 2.5" drive as secondary storage. I am trying to find an adapter to convert an NVME (M key type) to SATA 2.5" so can connect this to the laptop. When needed I can take the drive out and attach to another system with an USB adapter.
I’ve not heard of an adapter that allows such a thing and highly doubt that it’s possible. If you had a SATA M.2 slot, they can be dual purpose and also support PCIe.
If you go via the USB cabled route, you will lose the speed benefit of NVMe.
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Thats true, but haven't got another option isn't it.
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sorted byPersonally I would go with a USB caddy though - it's what I did on my old school HP ProBook 4520s. It does sport a PC express slot so I fitted a USB 3 card and connected my drives via that. Sadly Windows 11 won't boot from that port (I built it on another laptop - it just bluescreens on this one)
It won't function the way you want on a normal SATA port.
Generally speaking M.2 sockets do typically carry an SATA connection so many laptops will allow you to connect an SATA drive to an M.2 socket.
The reverse is rarely true though, SATA ports do not carry PCI-E (NVMe) connections so you can't connect an M.2 drive to a normal SATA port.
'Rarely' because there was a short lived standard called SATA Express that did carry a PCI-Express signal, but not many drives used it so it quickly stopped being included in systems.
I have taken out the CD drive and replaced with a cartridge which can take another SATA 2.5" drive as secondary storage.
I am trying to find an adapter to convert an NVME (M key type) to SATA 2.5" so can connect this to the laptop.
When needed I can take the drive out and attach to another system with an USB adapter.
If you had a SATA M.2 slot, they can be dual purpose and also support PCIe.