Portege R500 - Question about SSD Connector

Hello,
Can somebody tell me what connector is on the SSD's of a R500?
It is NOT a standard ZIF connector...
I have a broken r500 laptop and would like to extract the data from it that is still on there.
Is there any convertor I can buy?
Thank you

As far as I know SSDs have the same connector as all other SATA HDDs used in notebooks.
You can buy external HDD case for SATA HDDs and connect your HDD to some other notebook as external one. So you will have access to your data.

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