How to know if an SSD is compatible with your motherboard

2 PCIe NVMe SSDs is the speed The SATA interface has a speed bottleneck at a 6Gbs transfer rate compared to the PCIe lane with a 16Gbs

2 drives are “keyed” at one end so as to prevent the end-user from inserting them in an incompatible socket PCIe NVMe drives are 'M' keyed SATA ones,

m2 slot types Securing Digital Evidence with Linux Tools Bruce Nikkel The NVME adapter , which is attached to the mainboard FC Figure 1-18 : A

m2 slot pc Intel has numerous desktop boards with the PCIe x1 Mini-Card slot that typically do not support mSATA SSD replaces the mSATA standard and Mini PCIe