Tag: M.2

TIL – 3rd party m.2 heat sinks are a thing

I guess it shouldn’t be that surprising that 3rd party m.2 heat sinks exist. Device designers have been using heat absorbers in cases like the NUC chassis for ages. It’s just never occurred to me that in a less constrained thermal environment that there would be any use for one, and if it were the m.2 would come with one… […]

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TinkerTry writes up a few M.2 NVMe PCIe adapters

No M.2 NVMe support built into your motherboard? No problem, check out one of adapters TinkerTry has played with. Such adapter cards pass signals from your M.2 NVMe device right through to your motherboards PCIe slot, with no speed degradation. You can see these simple wire traces in the close-look video that’s featured below, so there’s no special drivers needed. […]

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