I’m waiting on a standoff kit to come in the mail, as this is my next troubleshooting step
I bought this SSD to fit into a thin client. I am new to stick drives so I think it’s correct that I can only insert it one way due to the M-key (my port only has one divider, unlike the memory stick).
I don’t have a standoff so the stick is in but at a slight angle.
The PC has no operating system yet so is it correct that a blank drive should show up in the BIOS at least? It shows the m.2 slot as being empty currently. Or is it potentially readable as is, but needs something on it to format it?
The plan is to chuck Debian on it to boot into, via a thumb drive, but I wanted to make sure it was at least installed correctly (I mean, it isn’t because it should have a standoff).
If when my standoff kit arrives, the drive still doesn’t show in the BIOS what would you recommend I do next?
EDIT: thank you so much for the advice so far! I added a standoff and I can now see 500Gb in the BIOS. Truthfully it might have already been recognised, there is a section for M.2 in the BIOS which was reading empty but it also lists primary hard drive and it’s showing up there. Now to install me some Debian
Check out this webpage and the pictures: https://www.atpinc.com/blog/what-is-m.2-M-B-BM-key-socket-3
I’m pretty sure you bought an M.2 SATA stick, not an mSATA stick.
You might need to double check that the M.2 slot of your motherboard supports SATA. It might be NVME only.
This is most likely the problem.
The manual says its sata
Thanks, yes sorry post title corrected. Mine is m.2 SATA, not mSATA. But it’s the correct style for my device.
Sounds like it is probably not seated properly so hopefully it will be recognised once the correct standoff is holding it at the right angle
Usually they insert at a slight angle (maybe 30 degrees or so) then once in they push down (easily, shouldn’t have resistance) and you put the little screw in to hold it down.