Stewie Mac

[mods - only vaguely related to travel tech (the mSATA came out of my old work travel laptop), but I can't face signing up to a tech IBB just to ask this one question]

My old home desktop has 4 SATA connectors, which are now all used up. I want to get some more storage in there, and I have an old 256GB mSATA that i took out of an laptop - is there such a thing an a PCIe card with an mSATA slot/adaptor, so I can plug the card in there? I know that performance etc won't be great, but I'm really not bothered about that, it's just extra storage and I have this drive sitting around.

If it is possible, can someone post a link for a suitable card? Every combo of mSATA / PCIe / adaptor that I use seems to bring up dozens of SATA-mSATA and PCIe-mPCIe adaptors, but nothing linking the two standards.

Thanks

PS - it's definitely mSATA and not m.2, sadly

deniah

Why not use plain-ole USB-A. Buy a housing for it and connect to USB -- still faster speeds than traditional platter drives

javabytes

Error 601

I have one of these:
Be careful with PCIe SATA cards, a lot of them are x2 (or x4 or x8) which most motherboards don't have.

unmesh

You can always put a card into an empty slot with a larger number of PCIe lanes if you have one available. Mine sits in a x16 slot

Error 601

You can, but those x16 slots are often populated with a video card. I have only even owned a single computer that had two of them.

unmesh

Good point. I use the integrated graphics processor in mine.

Stewie Mac

Thanks both - I don't need multiple card slots, so I'm going for Error601's version.