I'm trying to recover the data off a dead laptop (properly dead - had water spilled on it, now won't even turn on) however rather than having a traditional hard drive or SSD for storage it has one of these: http://i.imgur.com/uvWVe2V.jpg I've never seen one of these before, is it possible to recover data from them? If so what would I need to be able to do it?
Yup. Summit like this but from a UK seller will do you. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sandisk-S...-UX31-UX21-to-SATA-Adapter-card-/221299873540
It's an M.2 format SSD, if that helps? Most current mobos have a slot for them (but not yours sadly). As Modd1uk says, you'll need an adaptor like this one.
EBay link is for right thing. But correction its a mSATA drive, not m2 one. Easy mistake as msata uses mPCIe slot, but wired for data, m2 is pcie ssd (seem to remember having seen a review for a m2 drive which had sata controller linked to msata on it, thereby giving no advantage to the m2 concept, but can't recall where)
Yeah I just found that out when it came this morning and it didn't fit :/ Ah well I got it from Scan so shouldn't be an issue to get a refund/exchange.
I'm definitely not one of these "let me google that for you" people. Asking questions and thus fostering community is the point of having a forum in the first place. ...However, for future reference, the first thing I did was google the first bit of text under "Sandisk" and it instantly pointed me to various product pages pretty clearly indicating what the interface was. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sdsa5jk-128g (Seems they're fairly valuable things if it's working and you want to flog it )
