Both SSDs can hit over 7,000MB/sec read speed, require a PCIe 4.0 M.2 interface on your motherboard and are about as fast as you'll get without stepping up to a PCIe 5.0 SSD such as Crucial's T700 ...

Best 8 TB Not just the best M.2 SSD for gaming, but also the best 8 TB pick—with some caveats. It's huge, but it's also very expensive and not the best pick for a pure gaming drive thanks to ...

An M.2 SSD tends to generate more heat compared to a traditional 2.5-inch SATA SSD, thanks to its smaller form factor which can have components densely packed into a smaller space.

M.2 SSDs come in various lengths, such as 2280, 2260, 2242, and 2230. While they all fit the same port, different sizes are better suited for various devices, with some designed for smaller, more ...

This Lexar M.2 SSD offers up to 7,500MB/s read and 6,500MB/s write in an 2280 form factor package, and it is compatible with the PlayStation 5, making it the perfect upgrade.

An SSD, even a low-budget model, will easily manage double these speeds and above. In fact, our pick for the best SSD – Kingston's KC2500 – offers up to 3,500 MB/s read speeds and up to 2,900 ...

Today's fastest internal SSDs for consumers come in the super-small "gumstick" M.2 format. Here's how to buy the right M.2 SSD, along with deep-dive reviews of today's top models.

Whether you're building a PC or workstation that will see the SSD used heavily or a high-end NAS with M.2 SSD support, it's clear that WD has an impressive endurance rating for the cash.

Head to head We took six M.2 SSD drives for a spin. The state of the art was represented by these drives: The 256GB Samsung SM951 PCIe (AHCI) ($240; available for less at retailers like Amazon ...

It is fine for spinning disks, as it was designed for, but for any M.2 SSD, the cost difference of going from SATA to NVMe is negligible and the performance benefits are high.

Getting to know M.2 Pictured at the top of this article are four different M.2 cards. The one on the left is a combo Wi-Fi and Bluetooth card. The next one to the right is a Sandisk SSD that uses ...