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.

Capacity: 500GB, 1TB, 2TB and 4TB | Connection: SATA | Read speed: 560 MB/s | Write speed: 510 MB/s You don’t have to look far to find the best SATA SSD: it's the Crucial MX500. With sequential ...

M.2, on the other hand, is actually a type of form factor. You can find both NVMe M.2 SSDs and SATA M.2 SSDs in the wild. Sometimes product advertisements or summaries use “M.2 SSD” to imply ...

[Click on image for larger view.] The case supports M.2 NGFF Key B or B+M SATA SSDs. The M.2 device can be a 2280, 2260, 2242, or 2230 form factor. The SSD uses an ASMedia Technologies ASM1153E ...