You’ve seen M.2 cards in modern laptops already. If you’re buying an SSD today, it’s most likely an M.2 one. Many of our laptops contain M.2 WiFi cards, the consumer-oriented WWAN cards now come in ...

I have a Lenovo M75q-1 (model no: 114A) that was previously running Windows 11 Pro. I wanted to install Proxmox on it. I figured, what the hell, I'll update the BIOS first before I install Proxmox ...

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Today’s PCB design review is a board is from [Wificable]. iI’s a novel dual-SSD laptop adapter board! See, CPUs and chipsets often let you split wide PCIe links into multiple smaller width links. This ...

Sure, your Sony PlayStation 5 comes with a built-in 825-gigabyte solid state drive. (Seriously, why not 1 TB?!) But did you know it also has an expansion slot you can use to add extra storage? If not, ...

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 ...

Because of what SSDs are, solid-state drives (SSDs) are a core component of any modern PC, whether it’s a traditional SATA SSD or a more modern NVMe drive. Knowing the difference between these two ...