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    What connector is this?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by tareyza, Jan 1, 2015.

  1. tareyza

    tareyza Notebook Consultant

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    I'm looking to put an SSD onto an empty bay in my HP pavilion dv6tqe-7000 notebook. The only problem is that I can't recognize the connector, and it doesn't seem like anything I've seen before. I've looked at the service manual for my computer and this is definitely the bay for an SSD. I could alternatively replace my existing HDD but I the HDD connector is SATA II, which is definitely a bottleneck.Any ideas what connector is shown in the picture, is it mSATA?

    Additionally, what SSDs would you guys recommend I purchase? I'll probably go for a budget oriented SSD, something like the MX100 for example.
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    Finally, just for fun, my current crystaldisk scores are a whopping 61/66 sequential read and write. :p
     
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    cool, thanks!
     
    tareyza, Jan 2, 2015
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