They LIED to me! - DDR4 RAM to M.2 SSD Adapter #Helpful Post

you know I rarely if ever have a chance

to get bored because whenever I feel

like coming on all I need to do is fire

up a web browser and then descend into

what I call a related products black

hole until I find something so

mind-bendingly weird or stupid that I

know that I simply must have one so I

can try it out and share it with you

guys and because my websites of choice

for these descents are ones like Taobao

Aliexpress steel extreme and eBay it is

usually quite affordable and doesn't

take that long so without further ado I

present to you my latest find the ddr4

memory to end onto SSD drive adapter how

does it work well I'm gonna go out on a

limb and say probably not the way that

you'd expect but I'm sure what you were

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okay so what we've got here if the

product name is anything to go by is a

ddr2 NDOT to hard disk adapter card say

to the m dot 2 ND FF b key memory slot

SSD expansion card so what I gather from

all of that is that we are adapting a

ddr4 memory slot to an end dot 2 SSD

drive slot so I guess we should probably

go get one of each of those things and

give this a shot shall we okay so we've

got our test bench we've got our m2 SSD

and we've got our bizarre adapter so I'm

gonna go ahead and pull out one of my

memory sticks here and actually before

we put this in let's let's install an

SSD on it so they helpfully include this

screw driver oh oh we seem to have a

slight problem here houston this does

not fit in how about if we try it the

other way no what kind of looks like

it'll go in that still doesn't work so

what could be the problem here

I mean other than that this is

completely insane alright so we've

missed something here we did a bit of an

explainer on this a while back but I

don't blame me for not watching it it

was kind of boring but m dot 2 is just a

physical slot and it can actually accept

drives that use both the newer nvme

protocol and the older SATA type drives

so what we need is a SATA m dot to drive

with the correct keying for this type of

slot so now that we're equipped with

that let's try again shall we so here's

our WD blue you can see that aha

indeed this does install now

go ahead and grab our screws oh look at

that our free screwdriver easy fellow

it's even magnetic not very magnetic

mind you just a little magnetic okay so

there it is feels a little like complete

madness and maybe it is but hey isn't

that why we're all here let's fire it up

shall we

oh it's actually my first time using my

test bench in the new office I need to

turn on my UPS I need to plug in my UPS

hey there we go all right all right you

crazy little adapter show me your magic

reveal to me your secrets okay so as

we'd expect we're down to 24 gigs of RAM

because we did remove one of our 8 gig

sticks and as far as our storage drives

go we've got a whole lot of nothing

going on here

perhaps then that's why they included

this I think it was supposed to be red

but it actually ended up kind of pink

didn't it ah SATA cable in the package

so let's shut her down and plug this

baby in okay so now that we're just

using a SATA cable we'd expect it to

show up as a normal say to drive but the

thing is there's still nothing nada all

right so here's the thing there are

actually a lot of different ways that an

adapter can function so you know how if

you buy a travel adapter for your

electronic devices there are the bulky

ones that actually convert from 220

volts to 110 volts versus the simple

ones that just physically change the

shape of the prongs on your device to

fit into another socket

well those rely on the user to double

check if their device has a universal

input switching power supply kind of

like

this one so the same kind of rules apply

for computer adapters and there are a

number of different main kinds the first

one is what I call physical adapters and

these are very simple actually here I

can grab one right now this right here

is a USB type a 2 USB micro-b adapter

cable and while microbead does actually

this is fun fact have an extra conductor

in the tip it's only for sensing if a

device that would normally be the target

is supposed to act as a host so this

functionality was built for USB

on-the-go or OTG and allowed you to plug

accessories like network cards into

devices like phones and tablets for the

vast majority of use cases though that

extra pin lies dormant and all this

Cable does is run the same for

conductors power ground and then to data

wires to two different shaped plugs no

modifications to the signal whatsoever

are actually taking place the second

main kind of adapter is a little bit

more complicated I'm gonna call these

signal mode adapters for lack of a

better term these take some connector

and convert it into another one that is

totally different but natively supported

these types of adapters tend to be

relatively inexpensive still thanks to

the fact that the processing is being

done on the computer or the device side

the last main adapter I'm going to talk

about is what I will call a complete

adapter these take an entirely unrelated

signal and then actively convert it test

something else in real time an example

of this would be something like an HDMI

to VGA adapter HDMI has no legacy analog

mode of operation and a VGA display

device has zero understanding whatsoever

of digital signaling so these types of

adapters tend to be more expensive due

to the required processing power like

there will be chips inside they tend to

be

here for the same reason and they also

tend to be directional only working one

way so this one will take the HDMI port

on your laptop and convert it to a VGA

cable for that projector in the old

conference room but it would not go the

other way around it's also common for

these to require an external power

source in order to function depending on

what type of connection is being

converted and whether it has power pins

that can be utilized so back to the

topic at hand then this device was far

less interesting than I had initially

hoped right after I clicked on it the

geek in me would have absolutely loved

to see some kind of you know crazy way

to use a high-speed memory interface

with a standard SSD the issue is that

such a product would have to have been

designed from the ground up for that

type of access like intel's octane dims

that they actually I think just finally

started releasing because a normal

computer would have no idea what to do

with a storage device plugged into a

memory slot the interfaces are

absolutely nothing alike once I accepted

that my pipe dream wasn't happening I

decided I would still be pretty happy

with having my drive powered by the

memory slot with only a SATA data cable

required in order to get it working

which is to say that I was pretty

disappointed when I figured out what was

actually going on here and I kind of

wondered why they bothered to mount this

thing on a dim at all because if you

look closely near the pins here you'll

actually see that none of them are

connected to any traces on the printed

circuit board which means that we're

pretty much just wasting the gold

plating on these connectors and we could

have just as easily double taped this

thing to the side of another component

or left it hanging off of the cables

making this I would say somewhere in

between a type 1 and

type 2 adapter because we're pretty much

just taking these pins and converting

them it looks like we're doing a little

bit of something to it to these pins

over here the good news is that once

it's all hooked up correctly our drive

does indeed show up here's our 500 gig

drive and we can probably even boot to

it so MDOT to say to folks there it is

I'm just a little disappointed because I

had hoped there was a little bit more

exotic technology going on and this is

pretty much just a simple physical

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