Urgent HELP please! Samsung msata 840-EVO SSD T-1

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Please Urgent help needed on msata Samsung 840-EVO SSD T-1

I ordered the Maximus VII Formula / Watch Dogs edition mother board. I also ordered the Samsung 840 T-1 EVO msata SSD drive. Can you install the EVO SSD card to the mPCI combo module that comes with the motherboard. In the slot where the SSD card I have there is a WI-FI card in there. I can pull the WI-FI card out and the EVO SSD card will fit in the slot but it sticks out about an inch and a half further than the WI-FI card I took out. Also the WI-FI card is held in by 2 screws at the end. There are no holes to fasten down the SSD card. Will this mother board recognize the SSD card if I use this slot and lets say put electrical tape on it to hold it?

My problem is that Newegg will not replace it with a different drive even though I just received it today by Federal Express.

Thanks for your help.

Jaye
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It looks like the answer is probably no. While mini-PCIe and mSATA share the same form factor, the two are not always electrically compatible; it depends on how the the slot was wired by the motherboard manufacturer. The specs for that motherboard do not list mSATA as a storage interface, just that it has a mini-PCIe slot listed under expansion slots.

In the past is was quite common to have mSATA slots on the motherboard (and listed in the specs), but now they've been superseded by M.2 slots, which aren't backwards compatible.

You can certainly still give it a go, and see if it would work (no harm in trying and all that), but I doubt it will. So, seeing as you can't replace the drive, what to do? Well, Newegg should accept a...
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It looks like the answer is probably no. While mini-PCIe and mSATA share the same form factor, the two are not always electrically compatible; it depends on how the the slot was wired by the motherboard manufacturer. The specs for that motherboard do not list mSATA as a storage interface, just that it has a mini-PCIe slot listed under expansion slots.

In the past is was quite common to have mSATA slots on the motherboard (and listed in the specs), but now they've been superseded by M.2 slots, which aren't backwards compatible.

You can certainly still give it a go, and see if it would work (no harm in trying and all that), but I doubt it will. So, seeing as you can't replace the drive, what to do? Well, Newegg should accept a return (as opposed to a request for replacement), but there may be a re-stocking fee and all that. An alternative would be an adapter card; something like this, that converts the mSATA to a normal SATA interface (you don't have to get that one, it's just there as an example).
 
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