M.2 NVMe to SATA adapter?

[HCHTech]

I've got a Dell ultrabook in that has a Toshiba 1TB M.2 SSD (Model #THN5N51T02DU7) - This one. It's NVMe, so none of the M.2 to SATA adapters I have will work. I have these units. I'm looking for an adapter so I can hook the thing to one of my bench machines for backup. Is THIS the one I need?

 

[Markverhyden]

The conductor count matches, 29-4, so if it was me I'd order it.

I goofed. The drive is a 5 but the adapter you linked is a 4.

And on a related note I'm so tired of this merry go round of connectors for these types of devices.

 

[HCHTech]

That puts me on the right track - thanks. The NGFF or whatever "regular" M.2s are called are 5 / 28. The NVMe M.2s are 5 / 29. Thank goodness for cell phones where I can take a picture and zoom in about 500%. I think the 5/28 connector is referred to as the "B" style, and the 5/29 connector is referred to as the "M" style. There some "B+M" slots on the PCI Card adapters, so there's hope.

I'm not done searching yet, though. Unfortunately, that adapter I linked to above goes to a U.2 connector, I'm looking for one that will connect to SATA. Most of the adapters I find have this quote at the end: "Supports SATA-bus NGFF M.2 SSD with 'B' key or 'B+M' key, Note: This item can not fit with PCIe NVMe/PCIe AHCI M.2 internal SSD with 'M' key)." I'll keep looking...

 

[lcoughey]

There is no NVMe/PCIe to SATA adapters, to the best of my knowledge. The best you will likely find is a PCIe card to which you can connect the SSD in a desktop system....or buy the DeepSpar PCIe SSD add-on

 

[fencepost]

You may not find anything that goes to SATA, because isn't NVMe a straight PCIe connection?

edit: Luke beat me to it while I had the tab sitting idle

Edit 2:

 

[lcoughey]

You may not find anything that goes to SATA, because isn't NVMe a straight PCIe connection?

edit: Luke beat me to it while I had the tab sitting idle

You snooze, you lose.

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[HCHTech]

I concede - @lcoughey & @fencepost are correct - I couldn't find one. It makes sense, I guess because it's really a PCIe connection. You would never convert it to SATA to install it permanently in a PC. It doesn't change the fact that as techs, we occasionally have to work with the things outside of a PC. I suppose I can get one of the PCI cards with an NVMe mount on it, but that's kind of a pain.

In my case, the ultrabook is going back to Dell for a warranty motherboard replacement (it's second one in 16 months - don't ever buy one), so I want to take an image of the drive or at least do a Fabs run on it. I ended up booting to Parted Magic on an external DVD drive to do the job. Kind of a hack, but we got the data.