Question Secure SATA M.2 to mSATA mounts?

[Anomaly_76]

I am aware that mSATA drives are obsolete, expensive when you can find them, and not nearly as useful.

However, this is an unusual situation. I recently ditched Win10 for TuxedoOS, and am not going back. But Corsair does not support Linux, and OpenRGB does not detect my controller, so a cheap sister machine is needed to retain iCue lighting control.

My 850W PSU can handle the load, my case is a networking cabinet with space on the back wall, and I've found a cheap suitable board / CPU setup. However, I noticed the board's mSATA mounts might be handy for securing my existing 2280 SATA M.2.

Are there brackets or adapters for this? Something like this 2230/2242/2260/2280 NGFF SATA M.2 adapter, but made to mount to mSATA studs.

If not, do magnetic mounts still exist for SSDs? I've seen some before but can't seem to find them now.

 

[USAFRet]

mSATA drives (and presumably the mount) are shorter (50.8mm) than your 2280 SATA M.2 (80mm).

 

[SkyNetRising]

Are there brackets or adapters for this? Something like this 2230/2242/2260/2280 NGFF SATA M.2 adapter, but made to mount to mSATA studs.

There are msata to sata adapters.

https://www.riitop.com/products/rii...ard-module-board-50x30mm-msata-ssd-compatible

 

[SkyNetRising]

There are also msata to M.2 Bkey adapters

https://www.reichelt.com/de/en/adapter-msata-to-m-2-key-b-slot-delock-64109-p293907.html

 

[Anomaly_76]

These adapt an mSATA drive to SATA. I'm looking to secure a standard SATA drive using mSATA mounting points, not the slot.

This is the closest thing I can find, but I'd like to find one like this that doesn't actually have an mSATA slot.

Probably no such bracket or adapter, but I thought I'd ask around if anyone had seen such a thing.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I'm looking to secure a standard SATA drive using mSATA mounting points, not the slot.

Sata drive connected to msata port?

Then msata to sata adapter:

https://www.huntoffice.ie/startechc...green-6-gbit-s-5-50-c-25-70-c-im-v933009.html

 

[Anomaly_76]

Sata drive connected to msata port?

Then msata to sata adapter:

https://www.huntoffice.ie/startechc...green-6-gbit-s-5-50-c-25-70-c-im-v933009.html

Not exactly. I would still be using the standard on-board SATA port for a boot drive, but since the SATA M.2 I have is currently on an NGFF adapter and would have to be mounted somehow (it would be going in a network cabinet converted to recording studio / PC case), I was hoping to find a way to secure the drive itself using the mSATA studs, without using the mSATA port.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I was hoping to find a way to secure the drive itself using the mSATA studs, without using the mSATA port.

So - you want to put M.2 sata drive into physical space of msata port without using msata port itself?
What? How would that even work?

Just use M.2 to sata adapter and install the drive like a regular 2.5" sata drive.

https://www.startech.com/en-gb/hdd/sat32m225

 

[Anomaly_76]

So - you want to put M.2 sata drive into physical space of msata port without using msata port itself?
What? How would that even work?

Just use M.2 to sata adapter and install the drive like a regular 2.5" sata drive.

https://www.startech.com/en-gb/hdd/sat32m225

I am not using a normal physical case, I am using a networking cabinet housing other equipment as well as the PC (dual systems), hence there is no physical drive bay, which is why I was hoping to find a way to use the motherboard's mSATA mounts to physically secure a standard SATA drive.