Apple 2012 SSD to Adapter (SATA)

[pandaturtle64]

Hello!
I recently upgraded the ssd in my Mac book pro retina (2012). So I have an extra SSD lying around. I want to use it in my old windows laptop(swap out the HDD with the macbook SSD) but I'm not sure if their port the macbook SSD uses. It looks like an M2 or PCIe but I could be wrong, could be a proprietary connection knowing apple... Any ideas?

 

[ESPclipse]

First of all, I have a hard time believing that a 3 year old MacBook supported an M.2 drive. If the new drive that you installed to the MacBook was a SATA drive, then the former drive that you replaced must also be a SATA drive, unless you are using an entirely different bus (which I do not believe a 2012 MacBook supports). Therefore, if your "old laptop" also supports SATA drives (which I imagine it does), then the former MacBook drive should be usable in the old laptop. If you do not know for sure, then test for yourself. I think you may be confusing M.2, which almost nothing supports, with 2.5mm hard drive, which probably all laptops support.

 

[pandaturtle64]

First of all, I have a hard time believing that a 3 year old MacBook supported an M.2 drive. If the new drive that you installed to the MacBook was a SATA drive, then the former drive that you replaced must also be a SATA drive, unless you are using an entirely different bus (which I do not believe a 2012 MacBook supports). Therefore, if your "old laptop" also supports SATA drives (which I imagine it does), then the former MacBook drive should be usable in the old laptop. If you do not know for sure, then test for yourself. I think you may be confusing M.2, which almost nothing supports, with 2.5mm hard drive, which probably all laptops support.

My bad, I should have attached which SSD I'm referring to, which is Apple 2012 Pro Retina SSD this is the one I have. It looks like an M.2 but I'm not sure it's definitely not a 2.5 internal drive, it could be one of those apple proprietary drives. I replaced that one with an OWC Aura Pro 6G 480GB SSD. Also, from what you're saying, the apple SSD should work without an adapter or anything? plug directly into a SATA bus? I'll try when I get home
UPDATE So I finally got a chance to look at my SSD, it has 18pins on one side and 8 on the other, it seems to be mSATA but modified by apple, so sadly a proprietary drive )-: