Picked up a couple HP T640’s for almost nothing. I put bigger drives in them but was hoping I could use the original 32gb L42740-002 drives from them in an external enclosure to play with and learn Linux a bit since they should be faster than SD cards or flash drives. Both drives work fine in the T640’s and can be swapped between them and boot fine. But neither will show up in an enclosure. Bought a new enclosure “ORICO M2PVM-C3” that claimed it was SATA compatible since what little info I could find on the drives said they are SATA3 M.2. The enclosure shows up and just states no media. I had no luck with google search as usual so figured I’d just ask here but will probably just buy a small cheap M.2 drive. It just bugs me that I have two that only work internally that will sit doing nothing. I have not tried the drives in other computers yet may have to go grab the one I lent my nephews to test since I have a ram upgrade for it anyway.
There are two versions of that enclosure.
M2PV-C3 is the NVMe version
M2PF-C3 is the SATA version
There is no combined NVMe/SATA version of it as far as I can tell from Orico’s website. So I’m pretty sure you just got an NVMe only enclosure.
Couldn’t find it on the site either but got it from ORICO Direct US Store on Amazon. Unless the store and device are fake it should be SATA compatible. The box and device state Model M2PVM-C3. Turns out 32gb is too small to add the games I wanted to try on it after installing Steam anyway but I am still curious why they wont work.
Amazon ASIN since I can’t post a link
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Does it say it’s SATA compatible on the box?
The possibilities are that it’s defective or the wrong model.
Don’t remember but I looked at the chip on the board and its a Realtek RTL9210B-CG so should SATA compatible. I also tried one of the drives in a an AMD B450 board with a 1700x and it wouldn’t show up in bios. I’m just going to assume there’s something odd/special about these little drives. It doesn’t hurt to have two enclosures and I like this one more than my old one anyway.
