Hello,
First of all, thanks for always being there over the years. I have used a ton of tips from the forum and thought I ought to finally sign up. The effort of maintaining this knowledgebase is very much appreciated.
Secondly, I think I have a somewhat annomolous version of a Tough book and need some guidance please.
The laptop in question is a Panasonic CF-54D1443KC Mk2. From what I can find in the manuals it should be a SATA based storage system, though it does have PCIe.
My conundrum is the M. 2 socket. Reading up on those, an "M" key is a PCI 4/ NVMe model. Mine says "M" right on it above the slot. It has 5 contacts up and 4 contacts down, 2280 form factor.
It works with a "B+M" keyed SATA M. 2 SSD but does not show any storage space when an "M" keyed NVMe SSD is inserted. Though, the diagnostics show an additional drive to test compared to the usual 1. It just shows as 0GB, which I assume is because there is not a partition on it yet and I cannot find a way to slipstream a driver for it in yet.
I have read every Panasonic manual on the Panasonic sites relating to any model CF-54 and only found a slight reference to a Flash Drive on-board storage device. Nothing explicitly states M. 2, NGFF, or NVMe.
I tried contacting Panasonic support but the USA division forwards me to the Canadian division but the Canadian division has yet to respond.
I would love to see higher transfer rates, even if I don't get the full 4 lane PCIe. Anything better than the 489 MBps I'm getting now would be a blessing.
Is there anyone at Tom's that can help me figure this out please?
First of all, thanks for always being there over the years. I have used a ton of tips from the forum and thought I ought to finally sign up. The effort of maintaining this knowledgebase is very much appreciated.
Secondly, I think I have a somewhat annomolous version of a Tough book and need some guidance please.
The laptop in question is a Panasonic CF-54D1443KC Mk2. From what I can find in the manuals it should be a SATA based storage system, though it does have PCIe.
My conundrum is the M. 2 socket. Reading up on those, an "M" key is a PCI 4/ NVMe model. Mine says "M" right on it above the slot. It has 5 contacts up and 4 contacts down, 2280 form factor.
It works with a "B+M" keyed SATA M. 2 SSD but does not show any storage space when an "M" keyed NVMe SSD is inserted. Though, the diagnostics show an additional drive to test compared to the usual 1. It just shows as 0GB, which I assume is because there is not a partition on it yet and I cannot find a way to slipstream a driver for it in yet.
I have read every Panasonic manual on the Panasonic sites relating to any model CF-54 and only found a slight reference to a Flash Drive on-board storage device. Nothing explicitly states M. 2, NGFF, or NVMe.
I tried contacting Panasonic support but the USA division forwards me to the Canadian division but the Canadian division has yet to respond.
I would love to see higher transfer rates, even if I don't get the full 4 lane PCIe. Anything better than the 489 MBps I'm getting now would be a blessing.
Is there anyone at Tom's that can help me figure this out please?