We’ve started designing a PCIe card last week, an adapter from M.2 E-key to E-key, that adds an extra link to the E-key slot it carries – useful for fully utilizing a few rare but fancy E-key cards.

Specifications for two new interconnect technologies were released yesterday by the Peripheral Component Interconnect-Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG), the group said in a press release (download PDF) ...

Solid-state drives that adhere to the NVMe protocol are the fastest internal storage you can buy. Here's how to choose one with confidence, along with the top NVMe SSD picks from our deep-dive reviews ...

If you’re interested in upgraded performance and faster storage, it may be time to switch to a compact M.2 SSD. These speedy, stick-shaped solid-state drives are made for optimal data transfer, ...

Carefully check your motherboard’s PCIe capabilities and BIOS bifurcation settings for its x16 slot before buying the Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5. Those determine how many of the Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5’s four ...

PCI Express (PCIe) architecture is the ubiquitous Load/Store IO technology. Nonetheless, a host of myths and misunderstandings hold numerous engineers back from applying PCIe technology as broadly and ...

When PCI Express 5.0 SSDs hit the market in the spring of 2023, they promised unheard-of speeds for an internal SSD, but you needed a boutique desktop PC with the latest components or to build such a ...

In other words, if I already have a system with all six SATA ports taken up (1 SSD boot drive, 1 DVD-RW, and 4 HDDs), would I have to sacrifice any of those devices if I connected an NVMe to my M.2 ...

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As of now, the PCI Express 4.0 standard has been finalized and officially released. The new protocol promises twice the per-lane bandwidth of PCI Express 3.0, allowing a GPU or other accelerator to ...

Over the past few years, high-end PCs have come to be associated with PCI Express 5.0, the infrastructure that connects graphics cards and SSDs. That’s close to changing, as the PCI Special Interest ...