[SOLVED] Installing MX500 SSD on a laptop motherboard

[stan10]

Hey guys, what's the name of the wire used to connect the MX500 SSD to a laptop motherboard. I look up SATA cable but a bunch of different wires keep popping up.

 

[jay32267]

Hey guys, what's the name of the wire used to connect the MX500 SSD to a laptop motherboard. I look up SATA cable but a bunch of different wires keep popping up.

There should be two cables.
One is a data cable.
One is a power cable.

 

[stan10]

There should be two cables.
One is a data cable.
One is a power cable.

My crucial MX500 SSD didn't come with any cables so now I am looking for the actual name of the cable that allows me connect the SSD to my mother board as a second drive.

 

[USAFRet]

A laptop should have its own internal SATA connection. No 'cable' needed.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

look up that procedure on youtube for you model, i bet you will see a teardown on how to do it properly

 

[mdd1963]

Many (I'd say most) laptops have but one slot for a 2.5" HDD/SSD (newer ones might have room/provisions for an M.2 NVME/SATA port and a 2.5" SATA device, with the other sole SATA port occupied by a slimline DVD/BLueRay player/burner...

You'll know pretty quickly if there is room for mounting another 2.5" device in it, as that's a large area of blank space, and, the SATA power/data connectors will already be there waiting for the device to be slid into it and mounted.