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Repurposing Surface Pro v1 SSD

 
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Feb 12, 2022 16:09 |  #1

I had an old Surface 1 Pro with a shattered screen sitting in the corner of my office that I wanted to dispose of, but couldn't even boot it up to wipe the drive due to the screen being destroyed.

After removing a ton of screws I managed to extract the 256GB mSATA SSD, and thought it would be a shame to throw it out if it's still in good shape.

I found an inexpensive mSATA to usb enclosure on Amazon for $20 CAD, and after taking a total of 1 minute to install the drive I was happy to see that it works fine! Now the only thing I need to do is reformat it :)

https://www.amazon.ca …tle_o00_s00?ie=​UTF8&psc=1 (external link)

$20 CAD for a 256GB SSD usb drive, even if it ends up being a bit slow, is hard to beat.


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