Msata slot?

[TehBrickster]

When I opened up my laptop (Acer Aspire 7551g) this morning to add another RAM card, I noticed an empty slot next to the RAM slots.
After some searching on the internet I found out that this is probably a mini pcie or msata slot. Is that right?

A picture of it can be found here http://www.insidemylaptop.com/images/Acer-Aspire-7551G/aspire-7551g-disassembly-13.jpg
It's the slot in the bottom right corner.

Can anyone confirm what kind of slot this is and, more importantly, maybe tell me what I can stick in it?

 

[Scott_D_Bowen]

mSSD for express caching most likely.

 

[TehBrickster]

Thanks for the reply. Now I'm very new to this stuff.

I use my laptop for casual gaming, some sound and video recording/editting.
Is there a hardware part that can be of any use to me in this slot?

 

[hytecgowthaman]

its for Adding extra hdd or ssd to get more space.

 

[TehBrickster]

So extra disk space is the only use for it?

 

[zdbc13]

SSD won't add much storage but caching will speed up boot and access times.

 

[TehBrickster]

Ok so I've got myself a Crucial m4 64GB, Sata 6Gb/s mSATA SSD. Put it in the right slot, started up my laptop, but it doesn't seem to recognize it.

Can someone help me out here?

 

[zdbc13]

Can you see it in BIOS?

 

[TehBrickster]

Nope I can't see it in my bios, that was the first thing I did.

However, I did some more research and found out that I'm actually dealing with a mini PCI express card slot. Which means mSATA cards won't even work here.

I saw a tutorial about connecting an external gpu to a laptop using this slot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktUw2VTFyX4
So that's something I'm gonna look into.

Thank you all for the helpfull comments!