Want true next-gen SSD performance? Start with a compatible rig—and one of our top tested PCI Express 5.0 M.2 drives. Here's how to choose the right bleeding-edge SSD for your PC. Since 2004, I have ...

When PCI Express 5.0 SSDs hit the market in the spring of 2023, they promised unheard-of speeds for an internal SSD, but you needed a boutique desktop PC with the latest components or to build such a ...

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 ...

Imagine, for a moment, that you had a brand-new M.2 SSD rated for sequential transfers of over 15 GB/second. Obviously, it's the latest design, using four lanes of PCI Express 5.0 to achieve this ...

ASRock's new Hyper Quad M.2 PCIe 4.0 Expansion Card if you couldn't already tell from its name, can handle 4 x NVMe M.2 SSDs and cram them into a single PCIe 4.0 x16 slot. It supports M Key type ...

We’ve started designing a PCIe card last week, an adapter from M.2 E-key to E-key, that adds an extra link to the E-key slot it carries – useful for fully utilizing a few rare but fancy E-key cards.

As of now, the PCI Express 4.0 standard has been finalized and officially released. The new protocol promises twice the per-lane bandwidth of PCI Express 3.0, allowing a GPU or other accelerator to ...

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, ...

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PCI Express (PCIe) architecture is the ubiquitous Load/Store IO technology. Nonetheless, a host of myths and misunderstandings hold numerous engineers back from applying PCIe technology as broadly and ...

In other words, if I already have a system with all six SATA ports taken up (1 SSD boot drive, 1 DVD-RW, and 4 HDDs), would I have to sacrifice any of those devices if I connected an NVMe to my M.2 ...

Specifications for two new interconnect technologies were released yesterday by the Peripheral Component Interconnect-Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG), the group said in a press release (download PDF) ...