Well, all the commentors are right and Dell was wrong. The existing SSD in the E7450 is mSATA not M.2. Even though the M.2 drive I selected has a spec sheet that says compatible with E7450. Even though 3 Dell Tech Support guys said it would work. One Dell Sales agent said that I could remove the mSATA caddy and connect the M.2 in the space that was left that just doesn't seem right. Here's a picture of the guts of the E7450 showing the existing mSATA drive in the caddy and along side it the Dell M.2 PCIe NVME Gen 3x4 Class 40 2280 SSD. I am returning the M.2 to DELL now and getting an mSATA from Amazon because DELL Sales says they don't sell them and I should go to Amazon. Thanks to all who offered corrections, even though I didn't believe you at the time! Sorry. [IMAGE]
I'm upgrading the 128 Gb SSD in my E7450. Tech Support helped me identify and select "Dell M.2 PCIe NVME Gen 3x4 Class 40 2280 Solid State Drive - 512GB " as the device for my upgrade and I bought one. I want to put the old SSD into an external enclosure so I bought this ""NexStar SX M.2 (NGFF) SSD to USB 3.0 Enclosure". To test the new SSD, I put it in the enclosure and connected it to my other laptop. I tried USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports. Result is that the Windows 11 sees the device as connected and recognizes it as USB 3.0 SSD device, but it sees no disk so can't find anything to format. Several other ptn mgmt tools and disk mgmt tools also cannot find a disk to operate on. Please select from the following options and advise .... 1 - I got the wrong enclosure 2 - the SSD is non-functional 3 - None of the above
Replacement SSD seems bad (or is it me?)