M.2 slot identification help

[Kirikoza]

Just asking, is this the m.2 slot on my laptop? It seems rather tiny so I just wanted to make sure before i bought anything to fill it.

[NumLock21]

What Acer laptop do you have?

[Kirikoza]

1 minute ago, NumLock21 said:

What Acer laptop do you have?

Aspire R5-517T, people are saying it has an m.2 i was just making sure that that's it.

[Colin Donoghue]

Yes it is an m.2 but you might want to see if it is sata or nvme

[NumLock21]

7 minutes ago, Kirikoza said:

Aspire R5-517T, people are saying it has an m.2 i was just making sure that that's it.

According to your model number, that is a M.2 slot and it runs on SATA.

[Kirikoza]

On 8/25/2017 at 11:12 PM, NumLock21 said:

According to your model number, that is a M.2 slot and it runs on SATA.

So only an mSATA drive would work with it right?

[NumLock21]

12 hours ago, Kirikoza said:

So only an mSATA drive would work with it right?

The only confirm info i found so far. And it's m.2 sata not msata, they are totally different things.

[Mira Yurizaki]

This is a simplified way of figuring out how a M.2 slot is keyed. Since most of the time you'll be encountering M.2 slots for storage, you only need to find out if it's B or M keyed. B or B+M keyed usually means it's SATA only. M keyed is NVMe and SATA, assuming the SATA M.2 device is M keyed as well.

 

Two ways to figure out how the M.2 slot is keyed:

• Orient the slot so the mounting screw is facing down. Now the keys are in alphabetical order (leftmost = A, rightmost = M). Thus B is on the left side, M is on the right side.
• Count the pins of the shorter portion of the slot on the side where you insert the M.2 device.
  • 4 - M keyed
  • 5 - B keyed