My laptop has two M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 slots, but I've only got an HDD with a SATA III connector.
Question(s): How do I connect the two? Does a cable exist which connects an PCIe slot to a Sata III disk?
Slots:
- "M.2 2242 SSD PCIe NVMe, PCIe 3.0 x4"
- "M.2 2280 SSD PCIe NVMe, PCIe 3.0 x4"
HDD with a standard, regular SATA III connector. First slot already has an SSD in it. It's about getting a disk for the other one. I tried looking this up on the usual sale sites, but that results in answers about cards for desktops, not anything about laptops.
Now, since Superuser-site culture implicitly demands that all have to explicitly state they are not asking about brand preferences or whatever preferences:
No, I'm NOT asking to compare PCIe versus SATA, nor for any brand comparison. I wanna know if it's possible to use such a disk in such a slot, and, if yes, is a cable, an adapter or another solution.
Thanks. PS Caveat: To my knowledge, not any of the terms I've used above, are brand names, or, if they are, they are so generic, like Aspirin (tm), they can't be seen as brand names.