I’m planning on giving an older machine a small upgrade with an SSD, but since that machine does not have an m.2 port, I was thinking about buying the cheapest PCIe adapter I could find. Besides the obvious stuff like ports, PCIe gen and lane count, is there anything I should look out for? Specifically regarding Linux?

  • AnticorpEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That isn’t accurate. I used a PCIe adapter for an m.2 HDD on my wife’s computer and she’s getting 400% faster write speeds.

    • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      OP was speaking about “a small upgrade”, most probably in general performance. 400 MB/s write speed won’t make the OS itself any faster than with a normal SATA SSD.

      • AnticorpEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I said 400%, not 400MB/s. 4x faster is definitely a noticeable upgrade.