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M.2 slot roulette: Choosing the right SSD slot for optimal performance

Selecting the correct M.2 slot for your NVMe SSD is crucial for maximizing performance and avoiding potential damage to your ...

Raspberry Pi’s newest HAT holds an itty-bitty M.2 SSD

Raspberry Pi sells little add-on boards that fit on top of the tiny computer. This kind of board is called a hat. Pardon me, it’s HAT for “hardware on top.” C’mon, that’s freakin’ adorable. Anyway, ...
OMG! Ubuntu

Raspberry Pi’s New M.2 HAT+ Compact is an SSD Space Saver

If you're looking to add an SSD to your Raspberry Pi 5, the new $15 M.2 HAT+ Compact is a solid and smaller option to other ...
PC Magazine

Crucial T710 Review: This M.2 SSD Chills Out Aboard the Fastest Bus

August 15, 2025: In consultation with Micron, we made two changes to this review: We removed references to an unconfirmed 8TB version of the T710, and we updated the planned color (from RGB to purple) ...
Liliputing

Raspberry Pi 5’s newest add-on lets you squeeze an M.2 2230 SSD inside the official RPi 5 case

Like the original Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+, the new Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ (Compact) is a small board that connects to a Raspberry Pi 5’s FPC connector to give you an M.2 slot with support for SSDs or ...

M.2 adapter squeezes mini SSD into the official Raspi 5 housing

The M.2 HAT+ Compact for the Raspberry Pi piggybacks small 30 mm SSDs. The whole thing fits next to the official CPU cooler.
PC Magazine

WD Black SN8100 Review: This PCI Express 5.0 M.2 SSD Is the Fastest Yet

The WD Black SN8100 (starts at $179.99 for 1TB, $279.99 for 2TB as tested) is the first WD-branded PCI Express 5.0 solid-state drive (SSD) to come to market, but it was well worth the wait. The SN8100 ...

The latest Raspberry Pi is a computer in a satisfying mechanical keyboard

The Raspberry Pi 500 Plus is official, and it's a computer inside a mechanical keyboard. But it also brings a few other big ...
Electronics Weekly

Squeeze an M.2 SSD inside the Raspberry Pi 5 case

‘M.2 HAT+ Compact’, as it will be known, therefore allows a 30mm NVMe SSDs to be fitted inside the case, or other 30mm PCI ...
Neowin

Crucial's new P310 1TB Gen4 M.2 2280 NVMe SSD is priced just $70Crucial's new P310 1TB Gen4 M.2 2280 NVMe SSD is priced just $700 0

Back in September last year, Micron launched its new Crucial P310 SSD which was essentially a 2280 variant of the already existing 2230 version. The company claimed some big performance benefits with ...
PC Gamer

Modders are trying their hardest to add an NVMe SSD to the Switch 2, which is both impressive and something I'm not going to do

SSDs Best PCIe 5.0 SSD for gaming in 2025: the only Gen 5 drives I will allow in my PC SSDs Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the fastest and the best value solid state drives to perk up your PC SSDs Best ...
Hackaday

PCB Design Review: M.2 SSD Splitter

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 ...