The Asrock Rack M2_VGA is a GPU that fits in a tiny M.2 slot
Asrock Rack’s M2_VGA might be the cutest little “GPU” we’ve ever seen. Yes, it’s an entire graphics card made to slip into a tiny little M.2 slot on a motherboard. The card […]
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NVMe vs. M.2 vs. SATA SSD: What’s the difference?
Solid-state drives are universally faster than old-school hard-disk drives, but not all SSDs are the same. They come in different shapes and sizes, have different maximum speeds, and as you might guess, […]
Simple Steam Deck mod makes room for bigger M.2 SSDs
As a relatively tiny, portable gaming PC, the Steam Deck has some fairly rigid limitations in terms of hardware. As crazy “because I can” dreamers, modders are shattering those limitations as quickly […]
Third-party Steam Deck dock adds an M.2 slot
You still can’t buy the official Steam Deck Dock from Valve, presumably because the company is too busy making a bajillion actual Steam Decks. But, of course, where there are portable game […]
The first PCIe 5.0 M.2 SSD is available now
It seems like it’s taken forever for the latest and greatest storage standard to release an updated spec, but the wait is over. Gigabyte’s Aurous Gen5 SSDs, which appear to be the […]
This ingenious Asus RTX graphics card includes an M.2 SSD slot
On my somewhat cramped Micro-ATX motherboard, the M.2 slots for today’s teeny-tiny SSDs are between the PCIe slots…which means that the drives sit right under my graphics card. In terms of thermal […]
This toy race car hides an external M.2 enclosure
M.2 SSDs are amazingly fast and efficient. But if you haven’t built a desktop or upgraded a laptop recently, you might not know that they’re also freakin’ tiny. The 2280 standard, the […]
SATA, PCIe, and M.2: The slots on your motherboard, explained
It’s probably been a while since you’ve dealt with your computer’s motherboard. You don’t have to, as long as you simply sit at your PC or notebook and carry out everyday tasks. […]
Novelty M.2 card adds retro boot-up sound to your modern PC
Computers used to be a lot noisier than they are today. And I don’t just mean the whir of spinning hard disks and the rattle of fans—they used to boop and beep […]
Official Raspberry Pi M.2 SSD and adapter bundle now available
Sometimes it’s amazing what creators and modders can do with the humble Raspberry Pi. But no one would accuse the tiny, flexible system-on-a-chip of having an overabundance of storage, since in its […]
