Recent content by Rick Altman

Success! That host adapter worked like a charm. Drive is in place, formatted, and ready to gulp up data. Many thanks to all.

Many thanks to all who have chimed in here. The host adapter that Mr. Litschel recommends above can be ordered for same-day delivery, so that is the path of least resistance here. And a side benefit is that I can keep my old HDD in place for the purposes of data migration. I will report back if...

Let me see if I understand this: I would add that card to an available expansion slot and then attach the SSD drive to that card? And even though I am bypassing the conventional drive installation method, the new drive will be recognized as a drive and be formattable and addressable. Do I have...

Thank you, Mr. Litschel -- I will look into those. I have to wonder what type of performance sacrifice I will incur with an adapter that retrofits a NVMe drive. I would be willing to incur some performance hit for a quick fix...

On the (bad) advice of a Dell support rep, I purchased a Micron 7300 Pro SSD drive for a Precision 3630 desktop, being assured that it would be completely compatible. It is not. Instead of the standard SATA connectors, one for power and one for data, this drive has one long connector that...