Enclosure for m2 to sata M key

CivilDrone · 23 Dec 2021 at 06:36

Morning
Lookling for an ssd to go into xbox one x. Found samsung 980 ssd but not able to find an enclosure for it as its an M key. Can anyone suggest anything?
Cheers

EsaT · 23 Dec 2021 at 13:27

If you mean USB enclosure, you need to look for one supporting NVMe/PCIe.

CivilDrone · 23 Dec 2021 at 13:40

EsaT said:
If you mean USB enclosure, you need to look for one supporting NVMe/PCIe.

Not a usb but m2 to sata enclosure, cant find any with type m

EsaT · 23 Dec 2021 at 13:54

Samsung 980 is NVMe/PCIe drive and doesn't work with SATA.

CivilDrone · 23 Dec 2021 at 14:56

Pretty sure there are enclosures that convert nvme into sata, or am i wrong?

EsaT · 23 Dec 2021 at 15:13

Those USB enclosures are for SATA M.2 drives, like WD Blue 3D.

While using similar differential signaling at harware level, SATA and PCIe are completely incompatible.

CivilDrone · 23 Dec 2021 at 18:05

EsaT said:
Those USB enclosures are for SATA M.2 drives, like WD Blue 3D.

While using similar differential signaling at harware level, SATA and PCIe are completely incompatible.

Oh dear, back to square one

EsaT · 23 Dec 2021 at 18:16

Just get NVMe enclosure.
They all show themselves as USB mass storage to host device and don't need any special support...
Or more than SATA drive USB enclosures.