Az M.2 típusú meghajtók többsége 80 mm széles és 22 mm mély, azonban léteznek ennél rövidebb vagy hosszabb változatok is. Az egyszerűbb beazonosíthatóság érdekében az elnevezés időnként tartalmazza a méreteket is. Az előzőekben ismertetett mérettel például M.2 Type-2280 néven is találkozhat. M.2 SSD: A külsőre memória modulnak kinéző M.2 SSD meghajtók az elmúlt évek során alapelemei lettek a papírvékony, ultrahordozható notebookoknak, de sok asztali számítógépben is megtalálhatja őket. A felsőkategóriás alaplapokon már nem is számít meglepőnek, amikor M.2 csatlakozóból kettő vagy akár több is található. Random Read (4 KB, QD32) Up to 620,000 IOPS * Performance may vary based on system hardware & configuration

RPI/CPI Price Increase - Each year, your Pay Monthly airtime tariff will be adjusted according to Three's Fixed Annual Price Change (Three), the Retail Price Index (O2) or Consumer Price Index (EE, Vodafone) rate of inflation. Even in mSATA's heyday, though, a replacement was in the works. During development, it was known as NGFF, for "Next-Generation Form Factor." As it took shape, though, it took on its current, final name: M.2. The drives would be smaller, potentially more capacious, and, most important, not necessarily reliant on SATA. One last caveat to drop in before we get to our product recommendations surrounds Intel's SSD line. Intel for a while sold a family of M.2-based storage products under the brand name Optane, in two very distinct types of drive. Intel'sOptane SSDsare SSDs like any other, bootable drives that can serve as a stand-alone boot drive or as secondary storage. They were discontinued for consumers in 2021, but you may still see them around. (Incidentally, Intel ultimately sold its SSD business at the end of 2021 to SK Hynix, which has spun it off into a new Hynix subsidiary, Solidigm.)Power consumption (Idle) Max. 35 mW * Actual power consumption may vary depending on system hardware & configuration At the core, an SSD is just a thin circuit board studded with flash-memory and controller chips. Why not design around that? Thus the M.2 form factor was born. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. That's not a bad thing. Especially in the case of laptops, an older machine might supportonlyM.2 SATA-bus SSDs, and that will be the boundary of your upgrade path...end of story. As a result, the only reasons you'd upgrade the drive, in that situation, would be to get more capacity, or if the old one failed. A legnagyobb kapacitással rendelkező M.2 meghajtók 4 terabájtnyi adat tárolására alkalmasak. Ennél nagyobb tárhelyigény esetén használhat akár egyszerre több SSD meghajtót is, vagy választhat másik kialakítású típust.

An M.2 drive is a small form factor storage device, which directly interfaces with the motherboard. You can find M.2 drives in a variety of lengths with the most popular form factor being 80mm long. These drives can connect to a motherboard via one of two interfaces, SATA or NVMe. When choosing your M.2 drive, it is important to understand what type of drive your motherboard supports, as both SATA and NVMe drives feature different keying on their connectors. SATA drives have two indents into their connector, while NVMe feature a single indent.Az otthoni felhasználók számára szánt SSD-k kapacitása 120 GB-tól egészen 2 TB-ig terjed. Habár a tárhely kis mennyiségéből adódóan a 120 GB-os típusok a legolcsóbbak, ekkora kapacitás gyorsan szűkössé válhat, amikor már operációs rendszert és további programokat is szeretne rá telepíteni. Arról nem is beszélve, hogy egy adott SSD termékcsalád eltérő kapacitású modelljei közül mindig a legkisebb tárhelyű változat fog a legalacsonyabb írási- és olvasási sebességgel rendelkezni. South Korean memory-chip maker SK Hynix is a relative newcomer to the consumer solid-state drive market, but you would never know that based on its first offerings. The SK Hynix Platinum P41, a PCI Express 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD, is its best yet. It dominated our PCMark 10 and 3DMark Storage benchmark testing, setting several new records in the process. The P41 supports 256-bit AES hardware-based encryption. SK Hynix provides a clone utility tool, the SK Hynix System Migration Utility, for its SSDs, in addition to Easy Drive Manager software, which lets you see detailed information on drive health, run diagnostics, and erase the drive. And the P41 can be had for a very reasonable price in its 1TB and 2TB capacities. Who It's For