Adding USB + SD Expansion Card

[JungleSkunk]

I am a new Raspberry Pi builder and am interested in adding a USB + SD card expansion card to an upcoming project with a raspberry pi zero.

I am aware there are probably easier options but I have a bunch of these laptop expansion card on hand and would like to use them.

How hard would it be to attach and get running a card of this type? Attached is a photo.

Thanks for any possible guidance

[Navyscourge]

I am not sure how that card works; it is not clear from the photo what it is or how it connects to the laptop. Can you clarify this?

[JungleSkunk]

Thanks for the reply.

It is connected via what looks like a mini 12 pin connector, 2 rows of 8 pins.

The part number is 86249-001 or 6050A2154201 and was pulled from an HP business class laptop. I have a lot of these cards laying around and and building multiple pi zeros that need extra usb and sd slots for storage and peripherals ect.

[mikronauts]

Very unlikely to make it work easily.

Odds are it simply breaks out 2-4 USB channels from the motherboard.

If you can trace the circuit, and figure out all he signals on the connector, it may be possible, but I strongly suspect it will need a four port hub to drive it.

Thanks for the reply.

It is connected via what looks like a mini 12 pin connector, 2 rows of 8 pins.

The part number is 86249-001 or 6050A2154201 and was pulled from an HP business class laptop. I have a lot of these cards laying around and and building multiple pi zeros that need extra usb and sd slots for storage and peripherals ect.

[JungleSkunk]

This is a SD card and USB port in one expansion card and it has SMSC power chips on the expansion board itself so to say it only splits a usb signal is not correct.