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I know M.2 drives are faster - but my WD Black also run at least 20 degrees hotter - measured by the temp of the heat sink - than my WD Blue, which stays at room temperature. The speed gain seems ...

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 ...

That empty M.2 slot on your motherboard comes with a lot of potential. Apart from SSDs, it can take eGPU adapters, lane splitters, and a ton of other accessories that add more functionality than you ...

While most PC hardware seems to have gone up in price recently, SSDs are, thankfully, bucking that trend to some extent and thanks to price drops, PCIe 4.0 SSDs are particularly good value with plenty ...

The Maiyunda M1S is a small, low-power computer with an Intel Alder Lake-N processor, an aluminum body, and support for plenty of storage thanks to four M.2 2280 slots that can theoretically hold up ...

Has anyone any HANDS ON experience with the ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5 Card (PCIe 5.0/4.0) Supports Four NVMe M.2 (2242/2260/2280/22110) Devices up to 512 Gbps for AMD and Intel® Platform RAID Functions?

Buying an SSD feels simple these days. You pick a capacity, check the speed, compare prices, and move on. But there's one small technical detail that still trips people up—often after the SSD arrives ...

Today’s PCB design review is a board is from [Wificable]. iI’s a novel dual-SSD laptop adapter board! See, CPUs and chipsets often let you split wide PCIe links into multiple smaller width links. This ...

Carefully check your motherboard’s PCIe capabilities and BIOS bifurcation settings for its x16 slot before buying the Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5. Those determine how many of the Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5’s four ...

The WD Black SN8100 (starts at $179.99 for 1TB, $279.99 for 2TB as tested) is the first WD-branded PCI Express 5.0 solid-state drive (SSD) to come to market, but it was well worth the wait. The SN8100 ...