While the M.2 slot on motherboards is commonly used for SSDs and general storage expansion, they are a powerful resource to ...
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 ...
That extra storage you just installed is quietly killing your GPU performance ...
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 ...
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, ...
A compact PCIe expansion solution dubbed the Platypus adapter has been demonstrated, offering an unconventional way to ...
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.
In the first M.2 article, I’ve described real-world types and usecases of M.2 devices, so that you don’t get confused when dealing with various cards and ports available out there. I’ve also designed ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Rumours have been circulating for a while that AMD‘s 3rd Gen Ryzen platform will have PCIe 4.0 as the standard. This has been somewhat verified recently with the leak of an X570 chipset layout diagram ...