Even if you’re never going to design a M.2 card, now you know how to tell SATA and NVMe M.2 SSDs apart, and why pushing a B-key 4G card into your M-key SSD slot will not result in anything good.

I’ve also built a trove of M.2 key-to-key adapters for my friends’ usecases, such as one that lets you replace an A/E WiFi card with a M-key SSD, or vice-versa, and an adapter for Apple Xserve ...

M.2 SSDs for PCIe (x2 and x4) can be recognized by a cut-out — Key M. Variants with two cut-outs on the right and left (Keys B+M) usually only support PCIe x2 or SATA.

And perhaps the most important part is that you get a three-year warranty on this enclosure, which should provide some peace ...

If your only CPU-connected M.2 socket is right underneath your power-thirsty GPU, then by all means, install it in M.2_2 or _3, even if it goes through the chipset.

M.2 SSD in a laptop. Image used with permission by copyright holder The difference between 22mm and 25mm is small in terms of size, but it can potentially hold a lot of benefits for these future SSDs.

Currently, there are two M.2 SATA SSDs that standout from the rest. The Samsung 860 EVO M.2 and the Crucial MX500 M.2 show superior performance to other products on the market today.

WD_BLACK 500GB SN850 NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive - Gen4 PCIe, M.2 2280, 3D NAND, Up to 7,000 MB/s - WDS500G1X0E A high-speed SSD for the latest motherboards.

The SSD requires a PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot, and that will mean your PC's motherboard needs to be cutting edge and using one of AMD's latest Ryzen 7000 processors or Intel's 12th or 13th Gen CPUs, and ...