[SOLVED] Can you swap Optane to a M.2 SATA SSD?

[Lil’bertz]

I found a laptop that has a 16gb optane installed. I was wondering if i can swap that optane to a ssd boot drive.
it looks like it is physically compatible but it may not.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Physically it is compatible. You can use nvme M.2 drive in there.
But it will require alteration of BIOS settings. Laptop BIOS usually is very limited. It may or may not support use of M.2 drive in regular (not optane cache) mode.