Does any ssd card work? They don't sell ssd cards specific to a NUC.

[AlHill]

What is the model number of your NUC?

Doc

[MHave7]

DCCP847DYE

[n_scott_pearson]

The NUCs, in general, support both M.2 SATA SSDs and M.2 NVMe SSDs. The H (tall) NUCs also support a 2.5" SATA SSD. We need model number of the NUC for more specific answer.

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[MHave7]

DCCP847DYE

[n_scott_pearson]

That changes everything! That old thing could only support mSATA SSDs. mSATA SSDs are essentially a SATA SSD on a mini-PCIe card. They do not perform any better than standard 2.5" SATA SSDs (the common limitation is he (6Gb/s) SATA interface).

You should be able to use just about any mSATA drive in this NUC.

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[MHave7]

I have to get it from my dad. it is at his house. I was wondering, I was playing with this thing about 8 years ago and for a drive I was using a thumb drive. Now it wouldn't save anything (I think). If I were to get an external HD would that change anything or do I have to get an ssd?

[n_scott_pearson]

You can use any kind of USB drive. Flash disk, hard drive or SSD​; all should work just fine.

If you are in Visual BIOS, save files only to FAT32-formatted drive. No support for and other file systems (like NTFS) is supported.

H​ope this helps,

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[MHave7]

so the Linux file systems don't work? is that why it wouldn't remember the last state?

[n_scott_pearson]

You mean from within Visual BIOS? Correct; you cannot save anything on the EXT2, etc. Linux file systems. You can only save to FAT32-formatted media (flash drives. etc).

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