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So I bought an external portable 3TB HDD with the intention to crack out the bulldoze from within the enclosure to install into my laptop for an internal drive. When I got the drive out of the enclosure it was one of the drives that has a USB 3.0 micro b port instead of a SATA connexion.

And so I have looking into a means of getting USB 3.0 to SATA for the purpose on internal install.

Using this to go from SATA to mSATA / mPCIE,

And and so using this to give myself an internal USB 3.0 port from a SATA connection internally,

The question is will it work? I'k of the opinion that it wont. Beingness that the SATA controller will likely non be able the notice a USB drive. I'yard not sure if the board in between would exist able to sort that out. What do you think? Could information technology work? or is there another fashion to become that USB HDD to SATA internally? Cheers

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Won't work:

miniPCIExpress is a connector that provides (PCI Limited 1x (iirc) + USB 2 + some added command signals (disable inputs and led outputs, intended for wifi/bluetooth/cellular cards) + pins for a sim card slot located elsewhere), mSATA expands that connector by recycling 4 unused pins for the data pins as seen on the normal SATA data cablevision, but your kickoff adapter only connects those four pins and power (non like it could do otherwise)

Almost not-Microsoft operating systems install to and run just fine from an USB drive, of course...

For that y'all will want simply a miniPCIExpress to USB adapter (which for USB 2 is merely a passive device, the USB 3 one you posted must accept a chip somewhere)

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Own't gonna work, that HDD is the incorrect height I believe.

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I take seen a few tutorials for finding the SATA information line from the HDD's logicboard and soldering a connector. Might look into that more. Cheers

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I suppose the next question would be, could I use that second board, the USB to mPCIE, supervene upon my wifi carte du jour with it and run the hard drive off of that?

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I take seen a few tutorials for finding the SATA data line from the HDD'due south logicboard and soldering a connector. Might look into that more. Thanks

Just buy a regular SATA bulldoze, you are making your life hard, Laptop can only support internal up to 2TB regular HDD based on the form cistron.

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I suppose the next question would be, could I use that 2d lath, the USB to mPCIE, replace my wifi card with information technology and run the hard drive off of that?

You probably could (I didn't make it clear enough in my previous mail, but that active converter would need a scrap somewhere, so I dubiety it's the real deal - probably just USB 2, or is a function of completely incompatible miniPCIExpress to standard desktop size 1x slot kit)

Depending on whether it's a elementary USB two port, or some active PCI Limited device, you may or may not encounter whitelist issues, and the USB pins may or may not be wired up (if it currently has a wifi card, the pci limited ones definitely are)

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Could you mail service a picture of this harddrive? Sometimes these drives can initially wait similar they accept another connector just in reality it can exist a tacked on lath in improver to the normal harddrive.

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In theory y'all tin convert annihilation to anything, but making it work reliably and at decent speeds is a whole other issue. I think you lot'd exist much better off using information technology as an external, and getting a proper SATA drive for your internal. The Seagate FireCuda 2TB is pretty inexpensive, and y'all'll get faster boot speeds and such with a SSHD than a pure HDD.
@JJO192 Also, any 2.five" HDD 3TB and above volition exist 15mm thick. Some laptops will take room for that but nigh won't, since the focus is on making everything slimmer these days. The standard thickness is 7mm so that's what most laptops are made for.

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