Okay.

mcc

MY CHILD… MY CHILD… WHY CAN I SEE YOUR INSIDES

mcc

*Opening the M.2 packaging* Ooh, that's so nice of them! They included a free stick of gum!

mcc

"So this here is called a 'Zero Insertion Force' socket" "Okay, how do I use it?" "Apply moderate force"

mcc

I can't it won't it won't go in a critical part of this plan was transferring my old M.2 to a USB enclosure. The instructions say only to insert it at 30 degrees and push it down. I can't figure out how it's supposed to go in. I can lightly lay it on top, but then it doesn't expose the screw hole to lock it in, and then I don't know if I did it wrong or if my drive is too tall somehow

mcc

BRAIN TRANSPLANT SUCCESSFUL… NOW MOVING TO INSERT SECONDARY BRAIN…

mcc

Wait HECK I just realized. There wasn't a heatsink on the original M.2 like there was in the Lenovo video! And I already used my one "gum" heat strip on the USB enclosure!!!!

There were "replacement" Tinkpad HD heatsink strips on Amazon, I almost bought one. I guess I should have!! Crap what do I do now. I don't think Canada Computers had the "chewing gum" heatstrips.

The new M.2 has like, a long sticker on it. I think the stickers are supposed to be thermally active. Maybe good enough?

mcc

I guess what happens is my new HD doesn't spread out heat quite as well as it could have and either it gets hot inside my laptop or my HD doesn't run as fast as it could because it notices it's getting warm and autothrottles. Or I order the heatstrip after and go back in later to add one? Crap. I don't want to have to open this thing up again, like, am I gonna lose another little plastic bracket every time I open it?

Everyone I talked to was ambivalent about whether I needed the heatsink…

mcc

…you know, now that I've got it open… I wonder what's supposed to go here.

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

@mcc M.2 4G/5G module. they're wider and shorter than a typical NVMe SSD hence the footprint.

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

@mcc here's one of the fancy new ones that does 5G on the mmWave bands.