With storage rising in price, making use of spare M.2 SSDs becomes ever more important. This accessory delivers Thunderbolt 5 ...
As motherboard manufacturers unveiled their new Intel 9 Series products one after another, we can see the proliferation of PCIe Gen2 x2 M.2 interface on Desktop motherboards very clearly. However, ...
Need an extra M2 SSD but cannot fir it? Well, Silverstone released "ECM21-E" that converts your PCI-Express 4.0 compatible M.2 SSD to PCI-Express x4 slot compatible. This product is a successor model ...
Earlier this month, we published a full review of the Samsung XP941 512GB M.2 2280 SSD that RamCity in Australia provided us. The XP941 is the world's first M.2 SSD to feature four PCIe 2.0 lanes.
All PCIe SSDs, no matter what the flavor, are expensive. Case in point: the M.2/AHCI/PCIe 2.0 Kingston HyperX Predator PCIe SSD, which has a towering MSRP of $764 for the 480GB version. Then I saw the ...
The new MSI PCIe Gen5 M.2 Expander-Z card arrives on a PCIe 5.0 x16 slot and could be one of the first PCIe 5.0-capable devices outside of NVIDIA's purported GeForce RTX 3090 Ti which should arrive in ...
I’ve designed a few M.2 adapters for my own and my friends’ use, and having found those designs online, people have asked me for custom-made adapters. One of these requests is quite specific – an ...
If you’re interested in upgraded performance and faster storage, it may be time to switch to a compact M.2 SSD. These speedy, stick-shaped solid-state drives are made for optimal data transfer, ...
You’ve seen M.2 cards in modern laptops already. If you’re buying an SSD today, it’s most likely an M.2 one. Many of our laptops contain M.2 WiFi cards, the consumer-oriented WWAN cards now come in ...
At CES earlier this year, M.2 and PCIe was definitely among the major talking points for SSD technology. Every SSD manufacturer had something to say and almost everyone had something to show as well.
Samsung is no stranger to M.2 form-factor SSDs. For several years it has marketed PCIe and even NVMe M.2 drives such as the SM951 to OEMs but never directly to consumers. A few third party OEMs sprang ...