Add an mSATA to a Pavilion e9250t

[Gnuwave]

There is a slot in this system that accepts a 16GB mSATA card (a SanDisk SDSA6DM-016G-1006), but it's not showing up in F10 Setup, nor in Device Manager.

Is there a jumper setting to enable this slot or am I trying to add a device that's not supported?

Thank you for your help.

[Grzwacz]

Greetings Gnuwave,

Welcome to the forum.

I am not an HP employee.

The motherboard supports mSATA if you have the slot. But you have to install firmware to enable the device. SanDisk should provide the firmware.

HP used (back in 2013) Conexant firmware to allow disk caching to speed up the PC.

You should go to a SATA SSD if you are now using a platter HDD and are looking for improved system responsiveness. Your PC's MB has four SATA ports so you can use the existing HDD as a data drive.

mSATA disk caching is old tech. mSATA was used because SATA SSDs were very expensive in 2013/2014.

You don't need mSATA. mSATA is a limiting technology which can only cache data up to the size of the storage device minus overhead.

Regards

[Gnuwave · Accepted solution]

I checked the SanDisk site; there are no drivers and there is no firmware. In fact, there is no support for this product at all.

Meanwhile, from what I've discovered online, the chipset and/or BIOS for this model doesn't support it anyway.

Agree with you on going the SSD route.