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I have a BeeLink also and yeah they are throw aways.
Open the case up and in the bottom is an SSD.
If you can't put it in your computer you can get one of these SSD-to-USB adapters[^] to retrieve the data.
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I had my first real encounter with an M.2 disk a number of years ago, when a (non-computer-guy) friend asked med for help with some problems with his disk. I opened the case to see the model of the disk, intending to move it to another computer for testing. There was no disk there! At least none that I could see. I was extremely bewildered. Fortunately, the PC was so new that my friend still had the documentation that came with it, and I could read not only that the disk is an M.2, but also where I could find it on the mainboard. Oh, so that's what an M.2 looks like! I had heard mention of M.2, but had never looked up a picture of one, and would not have recognized it without the documentation.
At that time, I obviously didn't have an alternate M.2 reader, but we fixed the problem anyway - it turned out to not be related to the disk.
If you open the case in search of a SATA flash disk, you may not find it. I am not familiar with the machine referred to, and do not know whether to expect SATA or M.2 disk. From Amazon.com it looks as if some BeeLink models have SATA, others have M.2.
Note to OP: M.2 and SATA type flash disks are completely different animals; they need different kinds of adapters. If you buy an M.2 adapter: Some of them have USB-C connectors only. If you want to read the disk on an old PC lacking C sockets, you should make sure that the adapter has that option. Usually, you can expect significantly higher speed on the C socket.
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You open it up it either has an SSD or not. Never heard of the M.2 disks, I'll have to check it. Thanks for the heads up!
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Mike Hankey wrote: Never heard of the M.2 disks, I'll have to check it.
Do!
The performance is significantly higher than for SATA disks, especially if your mainboard provides PCIe 4.0 or even better, 5.0 - and the M.2 disk you buy match your PCIe version. But your mainboard must be prepared for it - running an external M.2 through a USB interface is like pearls before swine 
Don't be surprised if you motherboard has an M.2 socket! After I discovered that M.2 in my friend's computer, I went home to read the documentation for my old, 2015 vintage PC (i-5820K CPU). Lo and behold, it did have an M.2 socket as well, that I never noticed before! If Wikipedia tells the truth, M.2 was 10 years old last November. So you might be in luck. Having an M.2 system disk, I never notice neither boot up times or application startup times. (Of course it isn't immediate, but it no longer is of any concern.)
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Had no idea, my mobo has 2 slots.
Thanks for the heads up.
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Yup, I have an old Asrock mobo here still chugging along that I bought in 2014 (and it wasn't cutting edge then) and that has an M2 socket on board; it's running with a nice 1TB SSD as I type.
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m.2 was before NVMe. very standard
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Has never been more appropriate.
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As others have pointed out, your link is to standard RAM. Your data's on either an SSD, or an NVME drive. Depending on your specific Beelink model, you could have one or the other (and typically if they ship with an NVME drive, there's also an (empty) slot for an SSD.
Unrelated: I have around half a dozen of these Beelinks; one of them has been upgraded to 64GB of RAM and I use it to lighten the VM hosting load I have on my primary VM host (a traditional full tower). I'm tempted to get another one and also upgrade it to 64GB and retire my full-size tower.
And I agree, their cheapest ones are practically throwaway. I had one die on me (a low-end one) and just moved its drive to another one, and I was immediately back in business.
Prior to that, I went through two Intel NUCs. Both of those are dead - one never turned back on after a major, multi-day power failure, and the other ran way too hot and (I suspect) the CPU just burned out. Both NUCs tended to run hot, and IMO have poor thermal management. That's when I switched over to the Beelinks--I'd never go back to Intel. But then they exited that business, I suspect my experience with them was not unique...
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Quote: these things are throwaway
NO, keep it and will end up in a museum in about 30 years or so. 
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Quite possibly since all of the others are likely to have been thrown away.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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as others have said, your link is for RAM not storage.
I'm looking at the internals of this thing, and it would be a trivial matter to pull the SSD and copy the contents. Over the years, I have accumulated numerous devices that can access things like this. If you want to do it yourself, look for something like "USB 3.2 Gen 1 to M.2 SATA " that you can plug your m.2 into.
Some caveats:
- you say bricked. that might mean you lost the SSD. You are out of luck.
- Windows can get fussy accessing drives from other machines. Linux can usually circumvent issues like this.
Message me if you want to go deeper.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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modified 16-Apr-24 18:15pm.
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