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The laptop must have a 2280 M.2 slot, PCIe 3 x4.. some M.2 slots are SATA-only and others don't have the four lanes needed to take advantage of this drive's unusually fast speed (about 30 faster than a laptop hard disk). Newer upscale laptop motherboards have the right specs. Note: this will not connect to the SATA ports inside your laptop: a M.2 form factor slot is required. It can be formatted just as any other drive, BTW. I use mine inside a desktop Inspiron 3670 with amazing results.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.It can be formatted as a boot device BUT whether your machine will recognize it as such is determined by the machine’s BIOS (also it’s up to you to have a suitable boot image). If your question was just whether it could be used as a data-only device, that is what I did: I always reformat. You may want to research a utility called RUFUS. I find it invaluable for handling external storage.
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