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ekianjo on Feb 17, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: We Need a Better PC

> It was a piece of proprietary SanDisk crap.

you mean it was not a standard SSD ?

scrollaway on Feb 17, 2016 [–]

It wasn't, no. The UX is too thin for 2.5in SSDs. I had to find a special adapter to attempt reading it when it died.

This is what it looks like:

http://www.pcper.com/files/news/2012-03-12/SSDR_Sandisk-SSD....

FWIU they went with a different brand on their newer models, might be better.

khedoros on Feb 17, 2016 | [–]

That looks like an M.2 PCIe connection. Is it something less standard than that?

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