[SOLVED] What is a “1/2 Mini” slot good for?

[MdAyq0l]

After opening the back cover of my laptop, I found an empty slot with “1/2 Mini” written on the background. An image is here: https://www.computerbase.de/forum/t...wofuer-ein-1-2-mini-steckplatz-da-ist.1947376 .
Its size is roughly a half of an mSATA slot. What is such a slot good for; what do you insert there? The manual of my laptop says nothing about it. (For the single boys among you suffering from quarantine: no, “insert” doesn't mean what you are thinking... . )

 

[Math Geek]

that's usually a slot for something like a wifi/bluetooth card or other such support card.

i've seen gps modules and even an internal sd card holder!!
https://www.newegg.com/p/17Z-0053-00010

i think about the only thing it won't use is msata type cards. but they might have made that possible by now.

 

[MdAyq0l]

usually

I've just added the link to a photo and to the manual, if they help.

 

[Math Geek]

i say usually as in "that's what the slot is normally used for"

not that it has a second option unrelated. it's an expansion port like pcie slots on a mobo. most likely looking at the manual, that slot is probably there for an add-on cellular card but that's just a guess.

it's there and you can use it to add a feature if you wish or leave it alone if you don't need anything new not already there.

 

[1pikapikachu]

The answer was in the forum with the picture that you linked, but it was just in German XD

It's a PCI Express Mini Card also known as Mini PCI Express, Mini PCIe, Mini PCI-E, mPCIe, and PEM.

It can be used for a computer "add on" expansions.
Such as adding external serial, Fieldbus, CAN bus, LAN ethernet and SATA ports.

And I think potentially it can be used to install an SSD type thing, that allows expanding ur storage e.g extra 400GB (I'm not sure on that though.). The successor of a PCI Express Mini Card is an M.2 card.