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Not exactly the same thing, but I myself got a Pcie x1 to 1x3.0 Sata card and it has a mount for one regular 2.5"HDD. I put a SSD drive there which worked about 80% of the speed as it would compared to directly plugging it into a sata port (Crystal disk gave about 440/390, versus normal sata 550/500). So I would suspect the same kind of speed downgrade would happen with Pcie 1x to M.2 adapter.

I had no idea of such, but this seemed to work! tried it with the tape thing and it started spinning! I will get cable for it later. Thank you so much for the help!

So I bought a 8tb WD My book external harddrive, because it was the cheapest 8tb harddrive I could find, but I want to use it as internal harddrive. I disassembled it from the case, and plugged it to another usb-sata converter just to test it works without its own case and it did work just fine, I insert the files I wanted and prepare to make the drive internal for new pc. (Ive done the same before when external harddrives case has broken over time, usually the harddrive itself still works just fine internally...) However, once I plug the 8tb drive inside with sata connectors, computer dosent recognize it at all and it dosent even start to spin. I tried switching the sata power and data cables to another drive and that drive starts to spin just fine and is recognized by the computer. I also noticed that if the computer power is on, and once you plug in the sata power to any drive it should instantly start to spin even without data cable, but the 8tb WD drive didnt even do that. If I plug the 8tb WD drive with the same computer to any usb-to-sata converter, it starts to spin and works just fine. So I was wondering, is there something Im missing? Does it need more power from psu or is there some compatibility issue? Any help would be appreciated Motherboard is Asus Prime x470, Ryzen 7 x2700 and psu is Corsair CX750M (750w), Windows 10 The computer build is new. The 8tb WD hard drive inside the case is model WD80EZAZ Thank you