There are many reasons why you may want to put a 2.5″ SATA drive in a 3.5″ bay or enclosure. You may have a spare 2.5″ drive lying around or you may have just bought a new 2.5″ SATA SSD that you want to connect to your desktop. Perhaps, you want to transfer certain files from …
Whether a 256 GB SSD is enough for you or not depends entirely upon your use case. 256 GB SSD is often found on pre-built PCs or laptops that are cheap and budget-friendly. If you are a student or an office user, a 256 GB SSD can actually be sufficient for you. However, if you …
When it comes to connecting hard drives to your PC, you need to have a good grasp of all the cables that are involved. There are generally 6 types of hard drive cables, two of these i.e. SATA DATA and SATA Power are common and you should be aware of the most. The rest of …
Many of you must already be familiar with what an SSD is and if you have a PC that is about half a decade or so old, then there are high chances that you may at least have had experience with a Gen 3 PCIe SSD. The newer consoles, including PS5, however, were released when …
Whether you want to troubleshoot your SSD, replace it, or unplug it, you would like to know where it is located in the first place. The exact location of an SSD varies from motherboard to motherboard and what kind of SSD you have. There are two kinds of SSDs, M.2 and SATA SSDs, and depending …
If you are building a new gaming PC or planning on buying a prebuilt rig, installing an SSD is almost certainly necessary. An SSD can drastically improve your quality of life on PC and your overall gaming experience. But of course, along with understanding what kind of SSD to buy for your gaming build, it …
The SSD jargon and technical details can confuse even the most seasoned PC builders. SSDs, PCIe, M.2, Gen3, Gen4, SATA, M-Key, etc., are but a few terms that can overwhelm a new SSD stick buyer. And the fact is that each of these details matters tremendously. These details not only matter when buying an SSD …
The SATA interface, one of the primary interfaces for connecting hard drives, has different versions—the most recent version being SATA 3. There is a vast difference between the different SATA interface/port versions regarding performance. So much so that SATA 3 ports on a motherboard are twice as fast as SATA 2 ports. Given this, people …
The number of hard drives a PC can have depends upon two factors. Firstly, it relies on the hard drive you wish to install, i.e., Hard Disk Drive or SSD. Secondly, it depends on your motherboard’s expansion capability, i.e., ports and slots. As such, there is no maximum number of hard drives a PC can …
The short answer to the question “can you put M.2 SSD in a PCIe slot?” is a yes. You can put an M.2 SSD in a PCIe slot. However, you CANNOT put the SSD into the PCIe slot directly. In other words, to plug an M.2 SSD into a PCIe slot, you must have an …