I have a cheap and low powered laptop, a CODA Spirit, it ships with eMMC memory for the OS but it does have an m.2 slot available to add an SSD.
I'd like to upgrade to an SSD but not sure which type to get beyond it has an M.2 2280 slot.
Looking at drives there seem to be two choices a SATA drive or a much faster NVMe drive.
But which one to buy? Will the NVMe work and act as a boot drive?
Looking at the bios there is an option on the advanced tab 'NVMe Configuration' but what little specs are published suggest it's a SATA slot.
It is possible the bios would mention NVMe without the motherboard actually supporting it?
Would an NVMe drive be 'backwards compatible' with a SATA slot and still work but at slower speeds?
Or does anyone know what works in these laptops.
I'd like to upgrade to an SSD but not sure which type to get beyond it has an M.2 2280 slot.
Looking at drives there seem to be two choices a SATA drive or a much faster NVMe drive.
But which one to buy? Will the NVMe work and act as a boot drive?
Looking at the bios there is an option on the advanced tab 'NVMe Configuration' but what little specs are published suggest it's a SATA slot.
It is possible the bios would mention NVMe without the motherboard actually supporting it?
Would an NVMe drive be 'backwards compatible' with a SATA slot and still work but at slower speeds?
Or does anyone know what works in these laptops.