Is my WD Blue 250Gb M.2 a PCI drive?

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Nice forum but can’t really seem to find what I am looking for unfortunately. Will definitely be coming back ofthen though.

I have a StarTech M.2 SSD enclosure that I wanted to add this new WD 250Gb into to use as external storage / data backup and transfer. StarTech says that it cannot be, “Quote”; Not compatible with M.2 NVMe or AHCI PCI-Express SSDs. I am curious, is this SSD either of these?

The reason that I am asking is that it just shows a drive letter and No Media in Disk Management of Win 10.

Ideas or suggestions?

Thanks folks and Merry Christmas!

Frank

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You didn’t specify which drive you’re asking about. WD makes quite a few SSDs.

However, the tech specs of each drive are available here:

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Sorry about that but the Subject line is what I was asking about. Here is exactly what is on the SSD itself.

250Gb WD PC SSD SATA M.2 2280MDL: WDS250G1B0B-00AS40

I wish I knew what PC stands for since, like I said, the enclosure says Not compatable with M.2 NVMe or AHCI PCI-Express SSD’s.

Will try to chat with WD and see if they can tell me but am sure they will be just page flipper support folks but I may be wrong.

Thanks again.

Frank

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That’s a SATA drive, not NVMe nor PCI-E. So should be OK as your enclosure fits the M.2 2280 form factor.

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Thanks, thanks, thanks. That’s what I was thinking based on what I could find but just wanted some verification.

Now I’ve just got to figure out why it’s not working on any PC I try it on. Hmm…

It’ll show in Device Manager as Removable (I:) No Media on any computer so gonna get with StarTech and see if it could be some enclosure firmware or something since everything on the Windows side is working with both a USB-3 AND USB-C connector.

Thanks again for your update! I appreciate it.

Nice Holidays your way!

Frank