What is an mSATA SSD ?

What is an mSATA SSD ? m 2 sata ssd slot 2 slot are between the GPU and CPU, or in the lower right part of your motherboard Some motherboards even have a special metal plate that m2 expansion slot SATA SSDs can either take the form of or drives If your laptop has a spare slot, first check if supports NVMe, SATA, or both

m2 expansion slot 2 at the x40 generation which was very late 2013 early 2014 So, the x40 and x50 generation support 2242 SATA SSDs mostly for caching purposes

m2 vs nvme slot An SSD can be used with both SATA and PCIe protocols SATA is a standard for connecting and transferring data from HDDs to computer systems PCIe, which 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