That empty M.2 slot on your motherboard comes with a lot of potential. Apart from SSDs, it can take eGPU adapters, lane splitters, and a ton of other accessories that add more functionality than you ...

A person installing SAMSUNG 4TB M.2 PCIe Gen4 NVMe 990 PRO SSD on a motherboard - aileenchik/Shutterstock We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It's typical for a modern PC ...

When I first heard about the Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5, I had visions of the 4-slot NVMe 5.0 adapter card as an uber-affordable four-SSD RAID 0 array cranking out 50GBps of sustained throughput. Dream ...

A compact PCIe expansion solution dubbed the Platypus adapter has been demonstrated, offering an unconventional way to combine graphics and storage within a single PCIe slot. The adapter is designed ...

The Banana Pi BPI-M5 Pro is a single-board PC that measures 92 x 62mm (3.62″ x 2.44″) and features hardware that could make it an interesting option as a compact router, file server, media player, or ...

Typically, graphics cards use PCI Express x16 slots. That's a PCIe slot configured with sixteen individual data lanes. These data lanes are physical connections, and that's why an "x16" slot is so ...

The M.2 slot is usually used for solid-state storage devices. However, [bitluni] had another fun idea for how to use the interface. He built an M.2 compatible LED matrix that adds a little light to ...