Help finding a compatible enclosure for this SSD
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I have an m.2 SSD I was given out of a friend's dead laptop. I wanted to make it into a portable, high-capacity storage drive, since it's 256GB. However, I have ordered 3 separate enclosures from multiple brands and sources online, all claiming they're compatible with it, and when they arrive, they are not compatible. I know the drive still works, because I slotted it into a different PC to check, and yep, all green. I did this after every compatibility fail, just to be really sure. All research I've done says it's AHCI, not standard NVMe. I'm kind of at my wits end here, and just want this thing to get working.
On a whim, I also went to a different friend, and borrowed an enclosure for SATA and another for NVMe to see if those worked, and nothing from those, either.
Any recommendations? The SSD model is: Samsung MZHPV256HDGL Rev 0
PLZ HELP
On a whim, I also went to a different friend, and borrowed an enclosure for SATA and another for NVMe to see if those worked, and nothing from those, either.
Any recommendations? The SSD model is: Samsung MZHPV256HDGL Rev 0
PLZ HELP
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It's an NVME drive, it's M key. Do you have USB C available and were any of the enclosures you tested USB C NVME enclosures?
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TSMikeW said:It's an NVME drive, it's M key. Do you have USB C available and were any of the enclosures you tested USB C NVME enclosures?
Yes, I've tried an NVME enclosure, as I mentioned toward the end of the post. It had USB-c out, and I tried using multiple cables to connect to usb-c ports and usb-a ports alike. Nada.
Also when I looked online, I found these pieces of information, explaining why this model isn't standard NVME:
https://www.compuram.de/documents/datasheet/SM951_M.2_SSD_Spec_1.0_General(AHCI).pdf (nowhere here does it say NVME, but AHCI driver does return a result)
https://www.anandtech.com/show/9396/samsung-sm951-nvme-256gb-pcie-ssd-review (between the pictures of the NUC and the drives' connectors, it details the differences between the AHCI and NVME model numbers) -
That's really interesting, an M.2 PCIe drive that doesn't support NVMe. I don't think I've come across one of those before, but I'm glad you found an answer.
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Well, not quite an answer, as I knew this from the start. I still can't find any enclosures for it, oddly. Motherboards that support it, sure, but not external adapters or enclosures.TSTonyV said:That's really interesting, an M.2 PCIe drive that doesn't support NVMe. I don't think I've come across one of those before, but I'm glad you found an answer.
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