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External M.2 Behavior

Tynan Vilmos
By Tynan Vilmos
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Recently I've taken an m.2 drive out of my motherboard and moved it to an external enclosure. It's an Intel 660p 1TB NVME.

My question is when I plug into a PC [whether it's the one it originated from or a different one] it reads fine and all the contents are there, however when I want to remove the drive I don't have an option to "Remove Device" like I would would a regular USB drive.

I have tried reformatting the drive now that it's in an enclosure but the behavior is unchanged.

Is there a specific way I need to format this thing or am I just to unplug it when I'm done using it? And is unplugging it like that going to harm it?

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You don't get that option because the driver is picking it up as an internal system drive, not a USB removable drive. It shouldn't cause any issues though, so long as you don't remove it during a file transfer. 

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AMD Ryzen 7 5800X • Noctua NH-D15 • MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk • 2x8GB G.skill Trident Z Neo 3600MHz CL16 • MSI VENTUS 3X GeForce RTX 3070 OC • Samsung 970 Evo 1TB • Samsung 860 Evo 1TB • Cosair iCUE 465X RGB • Corsair RMx 750W (White)

 

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Got any questions about my system or peripherals? Feel free to tag me (@bellabichon) and I'll be happy to give you my two cents. 

 

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24 minutes ago, bellabichon said:

You don't get that option because the driver is picking it up as an internal system drive, not a USB removable drive. It shouldn't cause any issues though, so long as you don't remove it during a file transfer. 

Some HDD and SSD enclosures read as USB devices even though they're all Internal Drives.

Just wanted to be sure there wasn't a step I was missing.

So I suppose I'll just be careful with it, thnks!

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