News OWC Let's You Create Your Own U.2 SSD With an M.2 Drive

[Admin]

OWC's U2 ShuttleOne adapter transforms an M.2 SSD into a U.2 drive.

OWC Let's You Create Your Own U.2 SSD With an M.2 Drive : Read more

 

[bumrush]

'Let's"?

Let's not...

 

[bambinone]

I moved my second SSD from the bottom M.2 slot to the U.2 port (both connected through the X570 chipset) and here are the results:

On this board (Asus Pro WS X570-ACE) the bottom M.2 slot starts at x2 and gets cut down to x1 when the x1 expansion slot is in use. Quite an improvement! I used ICYDOCK's M.2-to-U.2 adapter/caddy but this OWC one looks nice too.

 

[thestryker]

Looks like a solid piece of hardware and the pricing seems surprisingly decent given it's OWC and I believe this is the only PCIe 4.0 compliant one on the market.

For me it'll be a debate between potential future PC use (current PC is PCIe 3.0) and the cheaper price of the ICYDOCK one. Been looking at getting a M.2 -> U.2 caddy so I can upgrade to NVMe storage without dropping a new heat source between my video card and CPU.