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so I did an unboxing a while back of the Kingston SSDs now v+ 180 this is a 64 gig solid state drive and one of the things I pointed out was quite special about it is the fact that it's really small so if we compare it to a normal SSD that is a two and a half inch SSD well it's very small and I also noted in my unboxing that it uses a standard that I'm not familiar with for its SATA connection so this is called oh shoot I totally forget no micro SATA yes excellent and I grabbed this cable just so that I could show you guys if you ever need to pull data off a 1.8 inch SATA Drive and you want or you want it to let's say you randomly add at 1.8 inch SATA Drive like say for example me and you wanted to be able to test it on a desktop or or bench market or do whatever else he does you need to do you need to get one of these so right here is the micro SATA interface that is power and data so I'm going to go ahead and plug that in just like that okay and then what you have to do is you have to take a regular Saito plug off your power supply and plug it into the power so we have now powered up the drive okay no notable status change after you power the drive because it is an SSD and it doesn't make any noise and then finally you need to whoops if it doesn't slip under your test bench you need to plug the SATA connector into the motherboard alright and hopefully oh yeah that was fast look at that so we've already got it ready to use and alright we have to actually uh our I always forget most efficient way to do this computer managed dis management area and I am fumbling around some tech tip ok so we are going to initialize the disk and then we are going to make a new simple volume assign it to drive letter x4 extreme and then we can view the file so it was that simple that's all we had to do I kind of wish I had some files to copy to it or something but we can do that later anyway that is what is involved in adapting a micro SATA drive such as the Kingston SSDs be plus 180 to a regular SATA power and data interface don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more tech tips videos about my work and whatever else it is that I upload to this channel