M.2 Switch

[origamiboy]

Hey,

My school issues us a lenovo yoga 260 that we use for our school work. I have bought a 256gb m.2 drive, and have installed windows. I want to be able to hot swap between my m.2 ssd and the one that was originally inside. I cant download anything on the original ssd because the school has a bunch of spyware and trojans on it. Is that a such thing as an internal m.2 switch?

 

Thanks! 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

4 minutes ago, origamiboy said:

Hey,

My school issues us a lenovo yoga 260 that we use for our school work. I have bought a 256gb m.2 drive, and have installed windows. I want to be able to hot swap between my m.2 ssd and the one that was originally inside. I cant download anything on the original ssd because the school has a bunch of spyware and trojans on it. Is that a such thing as an internal m.2 switch?

 

Thanks! 

You can tell the BIOS which drive to boot off of. But in terms of actual hot swapping, it generally doesn't exist in laptops. That being said, I would think your school IT team would rather students not to tamper with their devices especially since you'll void the warranty. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

There probably isn't room for the second drive, and you can't hotswap your boot drive, your running stuff from it.

 

Your best option here is a external ssd and windows 2 go.

[origamiboy]

Dont worry about room, and I would obviously need to restart, I was wondering if it was possible to switch them without having to opening up the laptop each time

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, origamiboy said:

Dont worry about room, and I would obviously need to restart, I was wondering if it was possible to switch them without having to opening up the laptop each time

Nope, as you need  a switch that doesn't exist, and would be a chip that probably doesn't exist. Just use a external drive for your use.

 

And where in the laptop will you fit both of these drives?

[AMDNeko]

  What you are wanting to do is dual boot. but since it will not be on same drive I would just find the key for lenovo which lets you select which drive to boot from (Either F1 or F12 for that unit I think) but there is only one slot which is for 80mm M.2

 

 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

2 minutes ago, origamiboy said:

Dont worry about room, and I would obviously need to restart, I was wondering if it was possible to switch them without having to opening up the laptop each time

Nope. Laptops generally don't support hot swap of anything. Old school IBM ThinkPads may have, but that's about it. 

[origamiboy]

The laptop has plenty of room, thinkpads arnt really compact. I dont need to hotswap anything, just some type of pcb that will allow me to swap the connects of the m.2 slot when the pc is  powered off. A phisical switch would work fine.

[AMDNeko]

3 minutes ago, origamiboy said:

The laptop has plenty of room, thinkpads arnt really compact. I dont need to hotswap anything, just some type of pcb that will allow me to swap the connects of the m.2 slot when the pc is  powered off. A phisical switch would work fine.

 

You need to find a SSD that fits in the WWAN M.2 port thats the only free slot on the board (42MM)

 

[origamiboy]

a physical switch is what i need. I need some type of board that just switches the connections. I can get an m.2 extender and mount the drive anywhere in the laptop. 

[AMDNeko]

1 minute ago, origamiboy said:

a physical switch is what i need. I need some type of board that just switches the connections. I can get an m.2 extender and mount the drive anywhere in the laptop. 

Doesn't exist. With linux bootloaders and bios settings its a un-needed redundancy and to do one properly you would be destroying school property. 

[origamiboy]

Alright thanks!

[origamiboy]

would this one fit in the slot?

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-860-EVO-250GB-mSATA-Internal-SSD-MZ-M6E250BW/183071728720?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D50962%26meid%3D9fadfdabc152455aaa1e045dd6283e53%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D253471176272%26itm%3D183071728720&_trksid=p2481888.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A31088674-36db-11e8-b0d8-74dbd18093f1|parentrq%3A890a2d001620ab6ad32d761effffd3ca|iid%3A1

[origamiboy]

is there even a type of ssd that fits in a wwan slot?