04-27-2020, 03:54 PM
OK, that came a couple days ago so I opened the PBP back up. As I understanding it from somewhere (wiki?) somebody's working on the howto for this. Sure wish I had one. I worked as an electronics technician for 20 years but I never saw this type of connector used with this type cable. The connector has teeth, which are usually for piercing insulation in ribbon cable with wires. Flex-cable like this usually has connectors that just open and shut like a clamp. Like the camera connectors in a Raspberry Pi.
Is this clamp open? I haven't changed it, but I didn't seem to be able to stick the cable in. Or should I take the white part off because this is just some position for shipping? This stuff is pretty tiny to be messing with at my age.
I assume to latch it closed I squeeze the white and black parts of the connector together on the cable. There are probably a couple things to snap outward on the ends to unlatch if I want to open it again. Or does the cable slide in under it?
One alternative to doing this I found is that NewEgg sells a bunch of NVMe to USB adapters so the SSD would go into a case and become a USB drive. https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=nvme+usb I already have a few hard drives in adapters like this, they're quite handy being able to plug them into whatever you want. I love the fact that the MTBF is 182 years on the drive, might pick up a few more.