Where to get this?

[Pendragon]

It's in a MSI GT72s. Where would you get one of these brackets?

 

[Blackhole890]

its called m.2 memories

[GSTARR]

I don't know what you're referring to when you say brackets. The actual card?

[Pendragon]

1 hour ago, Pendragon said:

brackets

I mean the bracket/card/hub in which the M2 card is slotted on to. The M2 is slotted onto a another card. MSI's implementation allows for 4 M2 ssds to be attached to a bracket/card/hub and then have that thing connect to the laptop. Notice how the M2 card isn't connected directly to the laptop and rather to another green pcb? The green PCB is connected to the laptop's mb.

[Dackzy]

I think that I might have one of those, just laying around I got it from MSI because I fixed a GT72s, but I am not sure if I ended up using it. Mention me in a hour or so, so I remember this thread and I will look in my boxes of parts

[Pendragon]

8 hours ago, Dackzy said:

I think that I might have one of those, just laying around I got it from MSI because I fixed a GT72s, but I am not sure if I ended up using it. Mention me in a hour or so, so I remember this thread and I will look in my boxes of parts

#8hours later I'm just curious if its a custom interface. Cause if it's not I want one LOL. I have a host of M2s lying around doing fuck all cause no desktop and I aint selling drives. I need something like this to make a unified m2 backup LOL.

[Dackzy]

Just now, Pendragon said:

#8hours later I'm just curious if its a custom interface. Cause if it's not I want one LOL. I have a host of M2s lying around doing fuck all cause no desktop and I aint selling drives. I need something like this to make a unified m2 backup LOL.

sadly I don't have it, BUT I know that it is using a m.2 connector and some sort of other connector and it is not all laptops that would have the room for one

[Pendragon]

1 minute ago, Dackzy said:

sadly I don't have it, BUT I know that it is using a m.2 connector and some sort of other connector and it is not all laptops that would have the room for one

Nah I wasn't gonna fit 4 m2s in a laptop m8. I was gonna get an external enclosure and raid 1 on the external enclosure for the 4 m2s for backup purposes. 

[Dackzy]

1 minute ago, Pendragon said:

Nah I wasn't gonna fit 4 m2s in a laptop m8. I was gonna get an external enclosure and raid 1 on the external enclosure for the 4 m2s for backup purposes. 

my guess is that the extra weird connector is for power

[Pendragon]

 

2 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

my guess is that the extra weird connector is for power

But wtf is it connected to? M2? NVME? Sata? Like it looks alot like M.2 2280 but how would MSI ensure the speeds of the 4 M2 drives if you hit them all at once. 

[Dackzy]

19 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

 

But wtf is it connected to? M2? NVME? Sata? Like it looks alot like M.2 2280 but how would MSI ensure the speeds of the 4 M2 drives if you hit them all at once. 

If I still had my notes I could tell you, but I am pretty sure that it is NVMe, mainly because it has a bandwith that is big enough for 4x normal m.2 ssds, but it is not fast m.2 ssds they put in it. I think they did this to save space and money and so you could get more fast storage

[Pendragon]

1 minute ago, Dackzy said:

If I still had my notes I could tell you, but I am pretty sure that it is NVMe, mainly because it has a bandwith that is big enough for 4x normal m.2 ssds, but it is not fast m.2 ssds they put in it. I think they did this to save space and money and so you could get more fast storage

Hmmmm, NVME doesn't work on external so I'll be regulated with USB-C speeds at best. Interesting. Ima contact MSI for one of these brackets LOL. 

[Dackzy]

Just now, Pendragon said:

Hmmmm, NVME doesn't work on external so I'll be regulated with USB-C speeds at best. Interesting. Ima contact MSI for one of these brackets LOL. 

then you could also get them to send you the specs, so you could see what that other connector does.

 

Now I really wish that I still had my pile of notes, my mom thought that they were trash so one day I came home from school and they were gone.... I could have told you everything about that adaptor if I had them..

[PSnewbie]

Is this it?

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/17812-01S-001-MS-17812-MSI-SSD-ADAPTER-BOARD-GE72-2QE-DOMINATOR-PRO-MS-1781-/231890483165

 

Edit: This ebay listing is for an MS-17812 Board, the one you pictured is an MS-17822 board (I think, the font is hard to see)

[Pendragon]

31 minutes ago, PSnewbie said:

Edit: This ebay listing is for an MS-17812 Board, the one you pictured is an MS-17822 board (I think, the font is hard to see)

OH interesting. The only difference is the one I listed is a 72 skylake version and your's is the haswell. Dimensions may not be the same but functionality should be.