M.2 adapter

I need an enclosure for big size m.2 ssd that will be working 24/7. The bigger one (2) has well adhering heat sink and a bigger fan, that's why I think it would cool better but the smaller one (1) is more convenient, made completely out of aluminum and maybe this small fan would actually be...

I have a couple of questions about the ASUS Hyper M.2 Gen5 PCIE-to-M2 storage adapter card that I wasn't able to figure out from the spec sheet and documentation. This card has a 6-pin auxiliary power input socket (same as some graphics cards) and I can't figure out when you actually need to...

Hey Folks need some help. Im looking into getting a pcie adapter for more m.2s. i have 1 pcie slot 16 available. Does my motherboard support Bifurcation found https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08WP8Q8B7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 here? Looking into getting something like...

On Aliexpress, I found an adapter that allows you to connect an external graphics card using the M.2 (NVME) slot. My laptop has an older M.2 slot that supports SATA drives. I'm not sure if I can use this M.2 slot to connect an external graphics card. Can someone advise me...

I am having trouble where my NVMe M.2 SSD's which I was using in a Dell OEM M.2 PCIe x16 adapter. The adapter holds 4 NVMe M.2 Drives and were setup with bifurcation however were only pooled and not raided in a Dell system. Was working perfect however I wanted to put all of the drives in another...

I'm building a mini-ITX soon using the Gigabyte H310N LGA1151 motherboard (rev 1.0). In addition to having a PCIe x16 port and an M.2 NVME port, it also has a M.2 wifi board, specs listed as M.2 Socket 1 for Intel CNVI or PCIe WiFi cards. I haven't really been able to find much info about using...

I m planning to purchase Ryzen 7 2700x and was selected motherboard and came across many minute differentiations In slots configurations which made complicated to select a motherboard. As I am planning to build a pc for content creation. Video editing rendering and decided for Ryzen 7 2700x...

My old gigabyte amd phenom III am3 board got dead so I am planning for new build of ryzen 7 3700x and I used to do professional work of data recovery graphic designing vedio editing and website development I used to have multiple OS instance of windows xp 7 9 10 and linux or different work...

My old laptop is being replaced by a new tower that I built. I have Win10 OS installed on a brand new separate 500gb SSD. I am wanting to take my old M.2 2tb (which was in the old laptop) and install into the new build to continue to use the files for the new build. (There are no issues with the...

I currently have a surface studio (gen 1). It is a wonderful AIO computer with some outdated hardware. I have swapped the original ssd+hdd hybrid to pure sata ssd, which leaves an empty m.2 port. My current plan is to upgrade the pc to Wi-Fi 6 by using the empty m.2 key m port. There are several...

With the (almost) 5gb/s speeds of PCI-E Gen4 M.2 drives, I would love to use them for my system. The problem is I don't have an X570 System and don't fancy swapping out my entire CPU and Mobo for a drive. Looking at the specs, a PCI-E Gen3 x8 lane would mean the same speed as a Gen4 x4 lane...

I have a Macbook Pro 2019 and want to have an external storage for it. I will be using it for storage and copying files back and forth from it to the macbook. Is the Samsung T5 1TB enough for my use case or should I buy a Thunderbolt 3 M.2 SSD enclosure and pair it with a 970 EVO PLUS 1TB?

Hi everyone, I wanted to add some extra storage to my pc and remembered seeing videos about being able to install M.2 drives into motherboards that didn't have an M.2 slot via a PCIe adapter. After doing some research I found out that I possibly won't get the maximum read and write speeds...

Hello good folks of THF. I am in the market for a good m.2 wifi/bluetooth card to replace my PCIe adapter. I am replacing it as my new Graphics card is very beefy and will require that space. I have done some research and am curious about this m.2 card that may be a good replacement...

Hi I have a 6 year old ASUS Zenbook UX51VZ (or U500VZ - not sure why it has two names). It was born with two 128 GB SSDs in RAID0 configuration. I would like to upgrade the two SSDs to two times 256 GB or maybe even two times 512 GB. However, it seems the installed drives are not standard...

Hello Tom's Hardware I've recently swapped from a Dell Laptop to an old Asus desktop and i'm trying to move my SSD over to it. I've purchased an "M.2 to PCIE" Adaptor from Amazon and i've slotted my SSD into the desktop and it isn't appearing on the drives. I didn't expect this to work so after...

Hello, my current computer setup is the following: Asus Z170-K Intel I5 Skylake GTX 1080 32gb ddr4 ram 2x WD 1tb HDD 1x samsung 250g SSD I am attempting to add 2x m.2 970 Evo 500gb SSDs but i only have 1 m.2 slot i have purchased a low profile m.2 adapter to fit my 2nd (and only other non-x1...

I was trying to upgrade my (prebuilt) computer as much as I could without touching the motherboard (I am on Intel waiting for the new Ryzen 3000 to make the switch) and I got tired of the long loading times for different games. So I decided to prepare to buy an NVME SSD but I don't have a place...