What is SATA? In short, it’s how almost everything storage-related connects to your motherboard. If you build your own PCs or owned a desktop or laptop in the past decade and a half, you can be ...

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There are also combination slots that can accommodate and control SATA SSDs. As soon as the M.2 slot is occupied by a SATA SSD, it switches from PCIe to SATA. The speed advantage of PCIe is thus lost.

Physically it looks like a USB long cable (about two feet long) with a weird connector at one end (that’s a SATA connector for those who didn’t know) and a USB 3.0 one at the other.

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The first thing we need to look at is the SSD's form factor. You'll see several different form factors available, including M.2 drives, 2.5-inch drives, and even mSATA, PCIe and U.2 SSDs. This ...

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