Humour me, M.2 into a 2.5" sata fake drive enclosure? Can it be done?

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Seem to see a lot of misinformation looking it up...

TLDR got a 500GB pci-e 3.0 nvme m.2 Samsung I'd like to put into a sata 2.5" hdd internal enclosure to be able to plug into an old macbook... Can it be done?
It's just a normal length nvme m.2 that you'd use as main storage in a motherboard that i've got spare, I figured if I can get an enclosure to convert it into a 2.5" hdd then it saves me buying a 500gb 2.5" sata3 drive (as I by fluke could do with this size storage to replace whats in said macbook currently)

From what I see on ebay everything but what I've got will fit, but it's all broken english from Chinese sellers, so I've no idea what to believe as some say it'll work some say it wont, some call one type of m.2 one type some the other...

If not does anyone literally want to do a straight swap and I'll put it in the marketplace?

Cheers!
 
M2 is the connector. The NVMe or SATA bit is the type of drive. I wouldn't bother putting an NVMe drive into a SATA converter. Buy a cheap SATA SSD and job done.
 
skyripper said:
M2 is the connector. The NVMe or SATA bit is the type of drive. I wouldn't bother putting an NVMe drive into a SATA converter. Buy a cheap SATA SSD and job done.
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The ebay adapters are like £7 which is a lot cheaper than a £32.99 new sata drive ;) So it had tempted me, as this Samsung PCI-E 3.0 500gb is literally doing nothing and I could do with a 500gb SATA 2.5" SSD ;)

ANDARIAL said:
check the sata caddy connections maybe?i think nvme has 2 slots? and `old`m2 has 1????
or the other way round
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What I have is the one slot like in the Samsung 970 EVO example below, what I believe to be 'M key' like my posh pci-e 4.0 Corsair MP600 PRO XT has in my main rig?

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It just gets confusing as you'll find sellers for these adapters stating they wont work with M key and will the next... Think I'll just take a gamble for £7 and send it back as faulty if not?

However, THIS puts me off from the seller:
1.Warning: don't fantasize about converting the PCIe nvme protocol hard disk to SATA. Don't ask and don't look for it. There is no such thing in the world at present!
2.Note: this adapter card can use m.2 ngff SSD of two protocols at the same time, but it can only support the conversion of SATA m.2 ngff SSD to 2.5-inch SATA interface or nvme m.2 ngff SSD to sff-8639 (i.e. U.2) interface! Cannot support the conversion of SATA m.2 ngff SSD to sff-8639 (i.e. U.2) interface or nvme m.2 ngff SSD to 2.5-inch SATA interface! Please make sure to understand this concept before purchasing!
3.Please do not ask about the speed of the adapter card. This adapter card only changes the interface shape, that is to connect the signal wire from the original hard disk interface to another interface shape. Such conversion does not need to go through the integrated circuit chip. Since it does not pass through the integrated circuit chip, it has no impact on the speed performance of your hard disk and does not need any driver (operation) Do the system to load your hard disk drive, adapter card do not drive, because there is no chip). The overall speed depends on how fast your hard disk is and how fast your computer can support (many computers can improve their speed by upgrading BIOS)!
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I'm VERY confused? :cry: Surely the NVME's I have are M.2 NGFF right?

Item for sale looks like this:
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That adapter will NOT do what you want:

- It will convert an M.2 SATA to a 2.5" SATA drive
or
- It will convert an M.2 NVMe to a 2.5" U.2 drive used in servers

It is essentially just a dumb adapter that connects the right pins to the right places for a 2.5" drive, but doesn't have any active chips to convert between the 2 Protocols (SATA vs NVMe)
 
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Armageus said:
That adapter will NOT do what you want:

- It will convert an M.2 SATA to a 2.5" SATA drive
or
- It will convert an M.2 NVMe to a 2.5" U.2 drive used in servers

It is essentially just a dumb adapter that connects the right pins to the right places for a 2.5" drive, but doesn't have any active chips to convert between the 2 Protocols (SATA vs NVMe)
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Thank you SO much mate! This is pretty much what I'd red when I looked into it, but I was confused as to why it still was in a 2.5" sata enclosure/adapter.

So it's true then that you cannot convert the protocols. I.E. I HAVE to buy a sata ssd if I want a sata ssd, no conversion possible?
 
Armageus said:
Realistically no (although I'm sure somewhere out there there will be a product, as there always is, just ridiculously expensive).
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Cheers mate, honestly thank you so much for your help!
Am I right in thinking however those usb adapters WILL convert it for use as a big external usb stick? Just seems a shame to waste it and it'll work out cheaper than buying more 128gb sandisk usb drives of which I never seem to have enough.

They look to be legit, so least I can make use of this drive still.
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keef247 said:
Cheers mate, honestly thank you so much for your help!
Am I right in thinking however those usb adapters WILL convert it for use as a big external usb stick? Just seems a shame to waste it and it'll work out cheaper than buying more 128gb sandisc usb drives of which I never seem to have enough.
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Yep anything like the below will be fine - and will likely be both faster and more reliable than even expensive usb flash drives.

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £24.95 (includes delivery: £0.00)​



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Armageus said:
Yep anything like the below will be fine - and will likely be both faster and more reliable than even expensive usb flash drives.

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £24.95 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

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Ah you legend nice one, found one for a tenner! I'm always using all the 128gb sandisk usb's I have at once whenever I need one haha, so having a 500gb will be nioce to have when chucking photos/videos I've taken onto each mac's photo's app to add to their libraries!
Nice one mate, thanks again!
 
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So, the cheap £10 adapter arrived... 99gb copied in 3-4mins, mind blown! This destroys any of the sandisk usb sticks I have! Now I have a 500gb NVME USB drive!
This is spot on @Armageus nice one for confirming it'd work! I'm always moving stuff from machine to machine like all my photos i've taken etc, so this has made my life very easy now haha!
 
keef247 said:
So, the cheap £10 adapter arrived... 99gb copied in 3-4mins, mind blown! This destroys any of the sandisk usb sticks I have! Now I have a 500gb NVME USB drive!
This is spot on @Armageus nice one for confirming it'd work! I'm always moving stuff from machine to machine like all my photos i've taken etc, so this has made my life very easy now haha!
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Are the files your sharing on pcs within the home as you can also share via the same network ?
 
mickyflinn said:
Are the files your sharing on pcs within the home as you can also share via the same network ?
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Never you mind what I'm sharing you nosey pervert ;) :cry: :D
Nah I have this proper like OCD of whenever I do anything on my macs, I make sure I update all the photos library on each at the same time then do a time machine backup on each, again at the same time.
I've lost stuff before, ironically twice it happened the week and month before I could afford a new backup drive and my drive in question died, TWICE that's happened, and other times when I couldn't afford new drives and the old stuff I was using failed.

So I'm super careful now haha 'manz got barrrrreeee drives get me' :cry::rolleyes:
 
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