{"id":48795,"date":"2026-04-12T18:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T18:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48795"},"modified":"2026-04-12T18:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T18:33:10","slug":"the-best-m-2-ssds-solid-state-drives-weve-tested-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48795","title":{"rendered":"The Best M.2 SSDs (Solid State Drives) We&#8217;ve Tested for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\n                    Deeper Dive: Our Top Tested Picks\n                <\/p>\n<div class=\"editors-note !my-12 border-l-8 border-l-red-400 py-2 pl-6\">\n<h2 class=\"flex items-center text-sm font-bold tracking-wide text-red-400\">\n            EDITORS&#8217; NOTE<br \/>\n            <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"inline-block size-4 ml-2 text-red-400 select-none transform -scale-x-100\" viewbox=\"0 0 512 512\"><!--!Font Awesome Free 6.6.0 by @fontawesome - https:\/\/fontawesome.com License - https:\/\/fontawesome.com\/license\/free Copyright 2024 Fonticons, Inc.--><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M441 58.9L453.1 71c9.4 9.4 9.4 24.6 0 33.9L424 134.1 377.9 88 407 58.9c9.4-9.4 24.6-9.4 33.9 0zM209.8 256.2L344 121.9 390.1 168 255.8 302.2c-2.9 2.9-6.5 5-10.4 6.1l-58.5 16.7 16.7-58.5c1.1-3.9 3.2-7.5 6.1-10.4zM373.1 25L175.8 222.2c-8.7 8.7-15 19.4-18.3 31.1l-28.6 100c-2.4 8.4-.1 17.4 6.1 23.6s15.2 8.5 23.6 6.1l100-28.6c11.8-3.4 22.5-9.7 31.1-18.3L487 138.9c28.1-28.1 28.1-73.7 0-101.8L474.9 25C446.8-3.1 401.2-3.1 373.1 25zM88 64C39.4 64 0 103.4 0 152L0 424c0 48.6 39.4 88 88 88l272 0c48.6 0 88-39.4 88-88l0-112c0-13.3-10.7-24-24-24s-24 10.7-24 24l0 112c0 22.1-17.9 40-40 40L88 464c-22.1 0-40-17.9-40-40l0-272c0-22.1 17.9-40 40-40l112 0c13.3 0 24-10.7 24-24s-10.7-24-24-24L88 64z\"\/><\/svg>        <\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-sm\">\n<p><em>April 12, 2026: With this update, our list of top recommended M.2 SSDs remains unchanged. The rest of our picks have been vetted for currency and availability. Note: Because of the ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/a-leading-supplier-warns-memory-shortage-to-last-until-2030\" target=\"_self\">memory shortage<\/a><\/em><em>, many of the SSDs mentioned here are currently much more expensive, in terms of street prices, than they were when we reviewed them. Since our previous update, we tested and evaluated seven new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/categories\/ssds\" target=\"_self\">SSDs<\/a><\/em><em> for inclusion in this roundup and other SSD roundups. We are currently testing SSDs in PC Labs from Corsair and Orico.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section aria-label=\"Roundup Product Cards\" x-data=\"productGallery\">\n<section class=\"roundup-product-card mx-auto !mb-16 max-w-3xl rounded-md p-6 shadow-box sm:!mb-32 sm:p-8\" id=\"best-pci-express-30-m2-ssd-for-most-users\" data-parent-group=\"roundup-product-card\" aria-label=\"Best PCI Express 3.0 M.2 SSD for Most Users\" x-data=\"{ intersectItem: $refs.intersectItem }\" x-ref=\"intersectItem\" x-intersect.once=\"window.trackGAImpressionEvents('Best_Product_Card', 'Crucial P3', intersectItem)\">\n<div class=\"mb-8 flex flex-col md:flex-row\">\n<div class=\"order-last w-full md:order-first md:w-1\/2\">\n<div class=\"swiper !flex flex-col gap-3\" id=\"product-gallery-best-pci-express-30-m2-ssd-for-most-users\">\n<div class=\"swiper-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"swiper-slide !flex flex-col gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex aspect-video items-center justify-center\">\n                    <button class=\"group relative w-full\" data-module=\"Best_Product_Card\" data-element=\"roundup-product-card-image\" data-item=\"image-inspect-1\" data-title=\"Crucial P3\" data-position=\"1\" aria-label=\"Inspect Enlarged Image 1 Of Crucial P3\" x-track-ga-click=\"\"><br \/>\n                        <span class=\"absolute left-3 top-3 z-10 rounded-lg border border-gray-300 bg-white bg-opacity-75 p-1 text-black transition-colors group-hover:bg-opacity-100 group-hover:text-red-400 group-active:text-red-500\" :class=\"{ 'text-red-400 bg-opacity-100': selectedProduct === 'best-pci-express-30-m2-ssd-for-most-users' }\"><br \/>\n                            <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"size-5\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\">\n    <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"m21 21-5.197-5.197m0 0A7.5 7.5 0 1 0 5.196 5.196a7.5 7.5 0 0 0 10.607 10.607ZM10.5 7.5v6m3-3h-6\"\/>\n<\/svg>                        <\/span><br \/>\n                        <br \/>\n                    <\/button>\n                <\/div>\n<p>                <small class=\"flex flex-col line-clamp-1 w-full sm:w-3\/4 md:w-2\/3\"><\/p>\n<p>                                                (Credit: Kyle Cobian)<br \/>\n                        <\/small>\n            <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><template x-teleport=\"body\" hidden=\"\"><\/p>\n<aside class=\"fixed inset-0 z-top flex justify-center md:mx-6 md:items-center\" aria-label=\"Crucial P3 Images Gallery Modal\" x-show=\"selectedProduct === 'best-pci-express-30-m2-ssd-for-most-users'\" x-trap.noscroll=\"selectedProduct === 'best-pci-express-30-m2-ssd-for-most-users'\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center gap-4 lg:relative lg:z-top\" x-on:click.outside=\"closeModal()\" x-on:keydown.escape=\"closeModal()\">\n                        <dialog class=\"relative mx-6 my-0 flex flex-col items-end gap-4 rounded-lg bg-white p-4 text-gray-700 lg:px-6\" :open=\"selectedProduct === 'best-pci-express-30-m2-ssd-for-most-users'\" :inert=\"selectedProduct !== 'best-pci-express-30-m2-ssd-for-most-users'\" x-ref=\"modal\"><br \/>\n                <button class=\"w-fit cursor-pointer text-gray-700 hover:text-red-400 focus:text-red-400 active:text-red-500 md:right-8 md:top-8\" aria-label=\"Close Crucial P3 Images Gallery Modal\" x-on:click=\"closeModal()\"><br \/>\n                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"inline-block size-5 transition-colors\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-prefix=\"fal\" data-icon=\"times\" viewbox=\"0 0 320 512\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M193.94 256 296.5 153.44l21.15-21.15c3.12-3.12 3.12-8.19 0-11.31l-22.63-22.63c-3.12-3.12-8.19-3.12-11.31 0L160 222.06 36.29 98.34c-3.12-3.12-8.19-3.12-11.31 0L2.34 120.97c-3.12 3.12-3.12 8.19 0 11.31L126.06 256 2.34 379.71c-3.12 3.12-3.12 8.19 0 11.31l22.63 22.63c3.12 3.12 8.19 3.12 11.31 0L160 289.94 262.56 392.5l21.15 21.15c3.12 3.12 8.19 3.12 11.31 0l22.63-22.63c3.12-3.12 3.12-8.19 0-11.31L193.94 256z\"\/><\/svg>                <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"swiper ease-out w-full max-w-[calc(100vw-5rem)] transition-opacity lg:max-w-3xl\" id=\"modal-gallery-best-pci-express-30-m2-ssd-for-most-users\" :class=\"isGalleryVisible ? 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'expand' : 'collapse'\" x-track-ga-click=\"\"><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"font-stretch-ultra-condensed text-xl font-semibold md:text-2xl\">Pros &amp; Cons<\/h4>\n<p>        <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col mb-8 gap-x-8 gap-y-6 sm:flex-row\" x-collapse=\"\" x-cloak=\"\" x-show=\"drawerOpen\">\n<ul class=\"!my-0 flex-1 space-y-3 !px-0 text-base font-semibold [&amp;&gt;li]:leading-normal\">\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Available in capacities up to 4TB&#13;<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Low cost per gigabyte for all models&#13;<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Includes link for Acronis True Image cloning software&#13;<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Good benchmark results for a PCI Express 3.0 drive<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"!my-0 flex-1 space-y-3 !px-0 text-base font-semibold [&amp;&gt;li]:leading-normal\">\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-red-400 shrink-0 size-4\" width=\"14\" height=\"2\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 2\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M13.6666 0.333313V1.66665H0.333252V0.333313H13.6666Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Relatively low write-durability (TBW) ratings&#13;<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-red-400 shrink-0 size-4\" width=\"14\" height=\"2\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 2\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M13.6666 0.333313V1.66665H0.333252V0.333313H13.6666Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Lacks 256-bit AES hardware-based encryption<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"border-b-1 border-t-1 border-gray-300 [&amp;+section]:border-t-0\" x-data=\"{ drawerOpen:  false  }\">\n        <button class=\"rich-text my-4 flex w-full items-center justify-between gap-x-4 text-left md:my-6 [&amp;&gt;*]:!m-0 [&amp;&gt;*]:w-fit [&amp;&gt;h4&gt;strong]:font-semibold\" data-module=\"Best_Product_Card\" data-element=\"product-card-dropdown\" data-title=\"Why We Picked It\" data-custom-object=\"roundup\" data-custom-template=\"roundup-page\" aria-label=\"Pros &amp; Cons\" aria-controls=\"pros-cons\" :data-custom-category=\"window.category\" :aria-expanded=\"drawerOpen\" :data-item=\"drawerOpen ? 'expand' : 'collapse'\" x-track-ga-click=\"\"><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"font-stretch-ultra-condensed text-xl font-semibold md:text-2xl\">Why We Picked It<\/h4>\n<p>        <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col mb-8 rich-text !mb-0\" x-collapse=\"\" x-cloak=\"\" x-show=\"drawerOpen\">\n<p>The Crucial P3 is a solid choice as a PCI Express 3.0 SSD to upgrade your system, providing good performance at such at a modest price. As the successor to the Crucial P2, the P3 offers higher capacities and much higher throughput speeds at a lower cost per gigabyte, thanks to Micron&#8217;s switch from TLC to QLC flash memory for this drive. The drawback is that the change lowers the P3&#8217;s write-durability rating, making it best for tasks that don&#8217;t consistently write huge amounts of data to the drive, day in and day out. The controller lacks a DRAM cache, which causes a performance hit on some SSDs, especially with large file transfers, but the P3 generally scored well in the PCMark 10 benchmarks.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"border-b-1 border-t-1 border-gray-300 [&amp;+section]:border-t-0\" x-data=\"{ drawerOpen:  false  }\">\n        <button class=\"rich-text my-4 flex w-full items-center justify-between gap-x-4 text-left md:my-6 [&amp;&gt;*]:!m-0 [&amp;&gt;*]:w-fit [&amp;&gt;h4&gt;strong]:font-semibold\" data-module=\"Best_Product_Card\" data-element=\"product-card-dropdown\" data-title=\"Who It's For\" data-custom-object=\"roundup\" data-custom-template=\"roundup-page\" aria-label=\"Pros &amp; Cons\" aria-controls=\"pros-cons\" :data-custom-category=\"window.category\" :aria-expanded=\"drawerOpen\" :data-item=\"drawerOpen ? 'expand' : 'collapse'\" x-track-ga-click=\"\"><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"font-stretch-ultra-condensed text-xl font-semibold md:text-2xl\">Who It&#8217;s For<\/h4>\n<p>        <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col mb-8 rich-text !mb-0\" x-collapse=\"\" x-cloak=\"\" x-show=\"drawerOpen\">\n<p><strong>Users with older PCs:<\/strong> The Crucial P3 provides good performance in a PCI Express 3.0 NVMe SSD. Its QLC NAND flash memory keeps the P3&#8217;s price down while allowing capacities up to 4TB. It&#8217;s a spot-on pick for upgrading older PCs that don&#8217;t support PCIe 4.0.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bargain hunters:<\/strong> The Crucial P3 is a cost-effective SSD option for users who don&#8217;t need the latest SSD speed, thanks to its PCI Express 3.0 interface and QLC NAND flash memory. Though it won&#8217;t set any speed records, it performed well for a PCIe 3.0 SSD in our benchmarks.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"border-b-1 border-t-1 border-gray-300 [&amp;+section]:border-t-0\" x-data=\"{ drawerOpen:  false  }\">\n        <button class=\"rich-text my-4 flex w-full items-center justify-between gap-x-4 text-left md:my-6 [&amp;&gt;*]:!m-0 [&amp;&gt;*]:w-fit [&amp;&gt;h4&gt;strong]:font-semibold\" data-module=\"Best_Product_Card\" data-element=\"product-card-dropdown\" data-title=\"Specs &amp; Configurations\" data-custom-object=\"roundup\" data-custom-template=\"roundup-page\" aria-label=\"Pros &amp; Cons\" aria-controls=\"pros-cons\" :data-custom-category=\"window.category\" :aria-expanded=\"drawerOpen\" :data-item=\"drawerOpen ? 'expand' : 'collapse'\" x-track-ga-click=\"\"><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"font-stretch-ultra-condensed text-xl font-semibold md:text-2xl\">Specs &amp; Configurations<\/h4>\n<p>        <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col mb-8 divide-y-1 divide-gray-300\" x-collapse=\"\" x-cloak=\"\" x-show=\"drawerOpen\">\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">Internal or External<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    Internal<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">Internal Form Factor<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    M.2 Type-2280<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">Interface (Computer Side)<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    M.2 Type-2280<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">Capacity (Tested)<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    2 TB<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">NAND Type<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    QLC<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">Controller Maker<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    Phison<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">Bus Type<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    PCI Express 3.0 x4<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">Rated Maximum Sequential Read<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    3500 MBps<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">Rated Maximum Sequential Write<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    3000 MBps<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">Terabytes Written (TBW) Rating<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    440 TBW<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">Warranty Length<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    5 years<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-4 text-center md:mb-8\">\n<p>Learn More<\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"mt-2 inline-block font-semibold leading-normal text-red-400 underline md:leading-loose\" data-module=\"Best_Product_Card\" data-element=\"Crucial P3\" 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'expand' : 'collapse'\" x-track-ga-click=\"\"><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"font-stretch-ultra-condensed text-xl font-semibold md:text-2xl\">Pros &amp; Cons<\/h4>\n<p>        <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col mb-8 gap-x-8 gap-y-6 sm:flex-row\" x-collapse=\"\" x-cloak=\"\" x-show=\"drawerOpen\">\n<ul class=\"!my-0 flex-1 space-y-3 !px-0 text-base font-semibold [&amp;&gt;li]:leading-normal\">\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Available in capacities up to 8TB, with or without a heatsink&#13;<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Exceeded both its sequential read and write speed ratings&#13;<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Aced PCMark and 3DMark storage tests<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"!my-0 flex-1 space-y-3 !px-0 text-base font-semibold [&amp;&gt;li]:leading-normal\">\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-red-400 shrink-0 size-4\" width=\"14\" height=\"2\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 2\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M13.6666 0.333313V1.66665H0.333252V0.333313H13.6666Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Lacks 256-bit AES hardware-based encryption<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"border-b-1 border-t-1 border-gray-300 [&amp;+section]:border-t-0\" x-data=\"{ drawerOpen:  false  }\">\n        <button class=\"rich-text my-4 flex w-full items-center justify-between gap-x-4 text-left md:my-6 [&amp;&gt;*]:!m-0 [&amp;&gt;*]:w-fit [&amp;&gt;h4&gt;strong]:font-semibold\" data-module=\"Best_Product_Card\" data-element=\"product-card-dropdown\" data-title=\"Why We Picked It\" data-custom-object=\"roundup\" data-custom-template=\"roundup-page\" aria-label=\"Pros &amp; Cons\" aria-controls=\"pros-cons\" :data-custom-category=\"window.category\" :aria-expanded=\"drawerOpen\" :data-item=\"drawerOpen ? 'expand' : 'collapse'\" x-track-ga-click=\"\"><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"font-stretch-ultra-condensed text-xl font-semibold md:text-2xl\">Why We Picked It<\/h4>\n<p>        <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col mb-8 rich-text !mb-0\" x-collapse=\"\" x-cloak=\"\" x-show=\"drawerOpen\">\n<p>The WD Black SN850X is an upgrade to Sandisk&#8217;s high-performance PCI Express 4.0 NVMe internal gaming SSD, the SN850. The SN850X improves on an already excellent drive by giving buyers the option for a 4TB version and an upgrade in flash memory technology that boosts sequential read and write speeds. It turned in improved benchmark results in both gaming and general storage tests (including a stellar score on the 3DMark Storage benchmark). You&#8217;ll definitely want to use a heatsink with this speedster; it&#8217;s available with or without one. About all it lacks is hardware-based security.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"border-b-1 border-t-1 border-gray-300 [&amp;+section]:border-t-0\" x-data=\"{ drawerOpen:  false  }\">\n        <button class=\"rich-text my-4 flex w-full items-center justify-between gap-x-4 text-left md:my-6 [&amp;&gt;*]:!m-0 [&amp;&gt;*]:w-fit [&amp;&gt;h4&gt;strong]:font-semibold\" data-module=\"Best_Product_Card\" data-element=\"product-card-dropdown\" data-title=\"Who It's For\" data-custom-object=\"roundup\" data-custom-template=\"roundup-page\" aria-label=\"Pros &amp; Cons\" aria-controls=\"pros-cons\" :data-custom-category=\"window.category\" :aria-expanded=\"drawerOpen\" :data-item=\"drawerOpen ? 'expand' : 'collapse'\" x-track-ga-click=\"\"><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"font-stretch-ultra-condensed text-xl font-semibold md:text-2xl\">Who It&#8217;s For<\/h4>\n<p>        <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col mb-8 rich-text !mb-0\" x-collapse=\"\" x-cloak=\"\" x-show=\"drawerOpen\">\n<p><strong>Upgraders seeking a balance of speed and capacity:<\/strong> The SN850X proves its mettle with impressive scores for a PCIe 4.0 SSD in both our general storage (PCMark 10 Overall Storage) and gaming-centric (3DMark Storage) benchmark tests. Now available in capacities up to 8TB, the SN850X can host a large media or game library.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gamers: <\/strong>The SN850X has real gaming prowess for a PCI Express 4.0 SSD. It tallied a sky-high score for a PCIe 4.0 stick on the 3DMark Storage benchmark, which aggregates a drive&#8217;s scores on various gaming-related tasks, such as installing and loading games, and saving their progress. It is available in 4TB and 8TB versions, enabling you to host a massive gaming library with room to spare.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"border-b-1 border-t-1 border-gray-300 [&amp;+section]:border-t-0\" x-data=\"{ drawerOpen:  false  }\">\n        <button class=\"rich-text my-4 flex w-full items-center justify-between gap-x-4 text-left md:my-6 [&amp;&gt;*]:!m-0 [&amp;&gt;*]:w-fit [&amp;&gt;h4&gt;strong]:font-semibold\" data-module=\"Best_Product_Card\" data-element=\"product-card-dropdown\" data-title=\"Specs &amp; Configurations\" data-custom-object=\"roundup\" data-custom-template=\"roundup-page\" aria-label=\"Pros &amp; Cons\" aria-controls=\"pros-cons\" :data-custom-category=\"window.category\" :aria-expanded=\"drawerOpen\" :data-item=\"drawerOpen ? 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sm:px-8\">NAND Type<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    TLC<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">Controller Maker<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    SanDisk<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">Bus Type<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    PCI Express 4.0<br \/>\n                           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Its lack of DRAM could affect its performance in sustained large-file transfers, but that won\u2019t be a problem for many users.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"border-b-1 border-t-1 border-gray-300 [&amp;+section]:border-t-0\" x-data=\"{ drawerOpen:  false  }\">\n        <button class=\"rich-text my-4 flex w-full items-center justify-between gap-x-4 text-left md:my-6 [&amp;&gt;*]:!m-0 [&amp;&gt;*]:w-fit [&amp;&gt;h4&gt;strong]:font-semibold\" data-module=\"Best_Product_Card\" data-element=\"product-card-dropdown\" data-title=\"Who It\u2019s For\" data-custom-object=\"roundup\" data-custom-template=\"roundup-page\" aria-label=\"Pros &amp; Cons\" aria-controls=\"pros-cons\" :data-custom-category=\"window.category\" :aria-expanded=\"drawerOpen\" :data-item=\"drawerOpen ? 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'expand' : 'collapse'\" x-track-ga-click=\"\"><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"font-stretch-ultra-condensed text-xl font-semibold md:text-2xl\">Pros &amp; Cons<\/h4>\n<p>        <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col mb-8 gap-x-8 gap-y-6 sm:flex-row\" x-collapse=\"\" x-cloak=\"\" x-show=\"drawerOpen\">\n<ul class=\"!my-0 flex-1 space-y-3 !px-0 text-base font-semibold [&amp;&gt;li]:leading-normal\">\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Available in both heatsink and non-heatsink versions&#13;<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Strong benchmark scores&#13;<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>High-quality software included&#13;<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Compatible with PlayStation 5<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"!my-0 flex-1 space-y-3 !px-0 text-base font-semibold [&amp;&gt;li]:leading-normal\">\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-red-400 shrink-0 size-4\" width=\"14\" height=\"2\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 2\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M13.6666 0.333313V1.66665H0.333252V0.333313H13.6666Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Fairly high cost per gigabyte<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"border-b-1 border-t-1 border-gray-300 [&amp;+section]:border-t-0\" x-data=\"{ drawerOpen:  false  }\">\n        <button class=\"rich-text my-4 flex w-full items-center justify-between gap-x-4 text-left md:my-6 [&amp;&gt;*]:!m-0 [&amp;&gt;*]:w-fit [&amp;&gt;h4&gt;strong]:font-semibold\" data-module=\"Best_Product_Card\" data-element=\"product-card-dropdown\" data-title=\"Why We Picked It\" data-custom-object=\"roundup\" data-custom-template=\"roundup-page\" aria-label=\"Pros &amp; Cons\" aria-controls=\"pros-cons\" :data-custom-category=\"window.category\" :aria-expanded=\"drawerOpen\" :data-item=\"drawerOpen ? 'expand' : 'collapse'\" x-track-ga-click=\"\"><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"font-stretch-ultra-condensed text-xl font-semibold md:text-2xl\">Why We Picked It<\/h4>\n<p>        <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col mb-8 rich-text !mb-0\" x-collapse=\"\" x-cloak=\"\" x-show=\"drawerOpen\">\n<p>The Crucial T500 is a step up from the company&#8217;s P5 Plus, with a memory and processor upgrade and a boost in throughput speed. The T500 performed superbly against other elite PCI Express 4.0 SSDs in our benchmark testing, posting excellent results in both general storage and gaming tests. Micron offers versions of the 1TB and 2TB stick with an integrated heatsink, which adds just $10 to the bare drive&#8217;s price at either capacity. 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'expand' : 'collapse'\" x-track-ga-click=\"\"><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"font-stretch-ultra-condensed text-xl font-semibold md:text-2xl\">Pros &amp; Cons<\/h4>\n<p>        <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col mb-8 gap-x-8 gap-y-6 sm:flex-row\" x-collapse=\"\" x-cloak=\"\" x-show=\"drawerOpen\">\n<ul class=\"!my-0 flex-1 space-y-3 !px-0 text-base font-semibold [&amp;&gt;li]:leading-normal\">\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Available in capacities up to 8TB&#13;<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>High durability rating&#13;<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Modestly priced at lower capacities&#13;<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Excellent PCMark 10 Overall score<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"!my-0 flex-1 space-y-3 !px-0 text-base font-semibold [&amp;&gt;li]:leading-normal\">\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-red-400 shrink-0 size-4\" width=\"14\" height=\"2\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 2\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M13.6666 0.333313V1.66665H0.333252V0.333313H13.6666Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Cost per gigabyte is much higher for the 8TB version&#13;<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-red-400 shrink-0 size-4\" width=\"14\" height=\"2\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 2\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M13.6666 0.333313V1.66665H0.333252V0.333313H13.6666Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Low 4K (random) write and small-file copy scores<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"border-b-1 border-t-1 border-gray-300 [&amp;+section]:border-t-0\" x-data=\"{ drawerOpen:  false  }\">\n        <button class=\"rich-text my-4 flex w-full items-center justify-between gap-x-4 text-left md:my-6 [&amp;&gt;*]:!m-0 [&amp;&gt;*]:w-fit [&amp;&gt;h4&gt;strong]:font-semibold\" data-module=\"Best_Product_Card\" data-element=\"product-card-dropdown\" data-title=\"Why We Picked It\" data-custom-object=\"roundup\" data-custom-template=\"roundup-page\" aria-label=\"Pros &amp; Cons\" aria-controls=\"pros-cons\" :data-custom-category=\"window.category\" :aria-expanded=\"drawerOpen\" :data-item=\"drawerOpen ? 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Its durability rating is among the highest we have seen on an M.2 SSD.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"border-b-1 border-t-1 border-gray-300 [&amp;+section]:border-t-0\" x-data=\"{ drawerOpen:  false  }\">\n        <button class=\"rich-text my-4 flex w-full items-center justify-between gap-x-4 text-left md:my-6 [&amp;&gt;*]:!m-0 [&amp;&gt;*]:w-fit [&amp;&gt;h4&gt;strong]:font-semibold\" data-module=\"Best_Product_Card\" data-element=\"product-card-dropdown\" data-title=\"Who It's For\" data-custom-object=\"roundup\" data-custom-template=\"roundup-page\" aria-label=\"Pros &amp; Cons\" aria-controls=\"pros-cons\" :data-custom-category=\"window.category\" :aria-expanded=\"drawerOpen\" :data-item=\"drawerOpen ? 'expand' : 'collapse'\" x-track-ga-click=\"\"><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"font-stretch-ultra-condensed text-xl font-semibold md:text-2xl\">Who It&#8217;s For<\/h4>\n<p>        <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col mb-8 rich-text !mb-0\" x-collapse=\"\" x-cloak=\"\" x-show=\"drawerOpen\">\n<p><strong>Upgraders: <\/strong>Whether it&#8217;s general performance, capacity, or both that you&#8217;re looking for, the TeamGroup MP44 has your back. It achieved a great score in the PCMark 10 Overall benchmark, which measures an SSD&#8217;s performance in a range of everyday storage tasks, for a PCI Express 4.0 SSD.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Capacity hounds:<\/strong> While many SSD makers have claimed that they have an 8TB version of their M.2 SSD in the works, Teamgroup is one of the few that has actually delivered. (Look out also for the 8TB version of the WD Black SN850X when it&#8217;s on sale.) This makes it a good fit for both content creators and users who want more space for a game or media library. While we love the fact that the TeamGroup MP44 is available in capacities up to 8TB, the cost per gigabyte at that capacity makes it best for well-heeled shoppers with a lot of data to store. 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It doesn&#8217;t quite merit the SSD 980 Pro&#8217;s Editors&#8217; Choice award, as other recent internal SSDs have outpaced it in our gaming benchmarks. However, its overall capability makes this Samsung a versatile drive well-suited for creative tasks.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"border-b-1 border-t-1 border-gray-300 [&amp;+section]:border-t-0\" x-data=\"{ drawerOpen:  false  }\">\n        <button class=\"rich-text my-4 flex w-full items-center justify-between gap-x-4 text-left md:my-6 [&amp;&gt;*]:!m-0 [&amp;&gt;*]:w-fit [&amp;&gt;h4&gt;strong]:font-semibold\" data-module=\"Best_Product_Card\" data-element=\"product-card-dropdown\" data-title=\"Who It's For\" data-custom-object=\"roundup\" data-custom-template=\"roundup-page\" aria-label=\"Pros &amp; Cons\" aria-controls=\"pros-cons\" :data-custom-category=\"window.category\" :aria-expanded=\"drawerOpen\" :data-item=\"drawerOpen ? 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'expand' : 'collapse'\" x-track-ga-click=\"\"><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"font-stretch-ultra-condensed text-xl font-semibold md:text-2xl\">Pros &amp; Cons<\/h4>\n<p>        <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col mb-8 gap-x-8 gap-y-6 sm:flex-row\" x-collapse=\"\" x-cloak=\"\" x-show=\"drawerOpen\">\n<ul class=\"!my-0 flex-1 space-y-3 !px-0 text-base font-semibold [&amp;&gt;li]:leading-normal\">\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Slightly exceeds its blistering rated speeds&#13;<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Good all-around benchmark performance&#13;<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>256-bit AES hardware-based encryption&#13;<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Includes free cloning-software download&#13;<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>PlayStation 5 compatible<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"!my-0 flex-1 space-y-3 !px-0 text-base font-semibold [&amp;&gt;li]:leading-normal\">\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-red-400 shrink-0 size-4\" width=\"14\" height=\"2\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 2\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M13.6666 0.333313V1.66665H0.333252V0.333313H13.6666Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Ships with graphene-embedded foam heat spreader rather than aluminum heatsink<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"border-b-1 border-t-1 border-gray-300 [&amp;+section]:border-t-0\" x-data=\"{ drawerOpen:  false  }\">\n        <button class=\"rich-text my-4 flex w-full items-center justify-between gap-x-4 text-left md:my-6 [&amp;&gt;*]:!m-0 [&amp;&gt;*]:w-fit [&amp;&gt;h4&gt;strong]:font-semibold\" data-module=\"Best_Product_Card\" data-element=\"product-card-dropdown\" data-title=\"Why We Picked It\" data-custom-object=\"roundup\" data-custom-template=\"roundup-page\" aria-label=\"Pros &amp; Cons\" aria-controls=\"pros-cons\" :data-custom-category=\"window.category\" :aria-expanded=\"drawerOpen\" :data-item=\"drawerOpen ? 'expand' : 'collapse'\" x-track-ga-click=\"\"><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"font-stretch-ultra-condensed text-xl font-semibold md:text-2xl\">Why We Picked It<\/h4>\n<p>        <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col mb-8 rich-text !mb-0\" x-collapse=\"\" x-cloak=\"\" x-show=\"drawerOpen\">\n<p>The Acer Predator GM7000, the first PCI Express 4.0 NVMe SSD in the company&#8217;s Predator line, is every bit as lethal as its gaming laptop and monitor brandmates. In addition to compatibility with a desktop or laptop computer, the GM7000 easily meets Sony&#8217;s specs for use as a secondary drive for the PlayStation 5; Acer offers an optional aluminum heatsink that is compact enough for PS5 use. <\/p>\n<p>In PC use, it tallied some of the faster throughput speeds we have seen in a single consumer-grade PCI Express 4.0 SSD, and it performed well in both our general storage and gaming benchmark tests. The Predator offers 256-bit AES encryption and includes a download card for a free custom version of Acronis True Image data cloning and backup software. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"border-b-1 border-t-1 border-gray-300 [&amp;+section]:border-t-0\" x-data=\"{ drawerOpen:  false  }\">\n        <button class=\"rich-text my-4 flex w-full items-center justify-between gap-x-4 text-left md:my-6 [&amp;&gt;*]:!m-0 [&amp;&gt;*]:w-fit [&amp;&gt;h4&gt;strong]:font-semibold\" data-module=\"Best_Product_Card\" data-element=\"product-card-dropdown\" data-title=\"Who It's For\" data-custom-object=\"roundup\" data-custom-template=\"roundup-page\" aria-label=\"Pros &amp; Cons\" aria-controls=\"pros-cons\" :data-custom-category=\"window.category\" :aria-expanded=\"drawerOpen\" :data-item=\"drawerOpen ? 'expand' : 'collapse'\" x-track-ga-click=\"\"><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"font-stretch-ultra-condensed text-xl font-semibold md:text-2xl\">Who It&#8217;s For<\/h4>\n<p>        <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col mb-8 rich-text !mb-0\" x-collapse=\"\" x-cloak=\"\" x-show=\"drawerOpen\">\n<p><strong>PS5 gamers: <\/strong>The GM7000 meets Sony&#8217;s specifications for use as a secondary drive for a PlayStation 5. It comes with a graphene heat spreader, and Acer also offers an aluminum heatsink that is compact enough for use with the PS5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Upgraders:<\/strong> The Acer Predator GM7000 is a versatile and feature-rich high-performance PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, making it a great choice for upgrading a PS5, a laptop, or a desktop computer. It has some of the fastest throughput speeds we have seen in a single consumer-grade PCIe 4.0 SSD.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"border-b-1 border-t-1 border-gray-300 [&amp;+section]:border-t-0\" x-data=\"{ drawerOpen:  false  }\">\n        <button class=\"rich-text my-4 flex w-full items-center justify-between gap-x-4 text-left md:my-6 [&amp;&gt;*]:!m-0 [&amp;&gt;*]:w-fit [&amp;&gt;h4&gt;strong]:font-semibold\" data-module=\"Best_Product_Card\" data-element=\"product-card-dropdown\" data-title=\"Specs &amp; Configurations\" data-custom-object=\"roundup\" data-custom-template=\"roundup-page\" aria-label=\"Pros &amp; Cons\" aria-controls=\"pros-cons\" :data-custom-category=\"window.category\" :aria-expanded=\"drawerOpen\" :data-item=\"drawerOpen ? 'expand' : 'collapse'\" x-track-ga-click=\"\"><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"font-stretch-ultra-condensed text-xl font-semibold md:text-2xl\">Specs &amp; Configurations<\/h4>\n<p>        <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col mb-8 divide-y-1 divide-gray-300\" x-collapse=\"\" x-cloak=\"\" x-show=\"drawerOpen\">\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">Internal or External<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    Internal<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">Internal Form Factor<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    M.2 Type-2280<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">Interface (Computer Side)<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    M.2 Type-2280<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">Capacity (Tested)<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    2 TB<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">NAND Type<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    TLC<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">Controller Maker<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    InnoGrit<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">Bus Type<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    PCI Express 4.0<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">Rated Maximum Sequential Read<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    7400 MBps<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">Rated Maximum Sequential Write<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    6700 MBps<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">Terabytes Written (TBW) Rating<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    1200 TBW<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"hyphens flex-1 break-words px-4 font-semibold sm:px-8\">Warranty Length<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"flex-1 sm:flex-[2]\"><br \/>\n                                                                    5 years<br \/>\n                                                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-4 text-center md:mb-8\">\n<p>Learn More<\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"mt-2 inline-block font-semibold leading-normal text-red-400 underline md:leading-loose\" data-module=\"Best_Product_Card\" data-element=\"Acer Predator GM7000\" 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'expand' : 'collapse'\" x-track-ga-click=\"\"><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"font-stretch-ultra-condensed text-xl font-semibold md:text-2xl\">Pros &amp; Cons<\/h4>\n<p>        <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col mb-8 gap-x-8 gap-y-6 sm:flex-row\" x-collapse=\"\" x-cloak=\"\" x-show=\"drawerOpen\">\n<ul class=\"!my-0 flex-1 space-y-3 !px-0 text-base font-semibold [&amp;&gt;li]:leading-normal\">\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Exceeded its Crystal DiskMark sequential read and write speed ratings&#13;<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Excellent 4K read benchmark results&#13;<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 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class=\"pt-1 text-green-400 shrink-0 size-5\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M7.66659 6.33331H13.6666V7.66665H7.66659V13.6666H6.33325V7.66665H0.333252V6.33331H6.33325V0.333313H7.66659V6.33331Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Includes downloads for Acronis True Image and Sandisk Dashboard software<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"!my-0 flex-1 space-y-3 !px-0 text-base font-semibold [&amp;&gt;li]:leading-normal\">\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-red-400 shrink-0 size-4\" width=\"14\" height=\"2\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 2\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M13.6666 0.333313V1.66665H0.333252V0.333313H13.6666Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Relatively low TBW (durability) rating&#13;<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-red-400 shrink-0 size-4\" width=\"14\" height=\"2\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 2\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M13.6666 0.333313V1.66665H0.333252V0.333313H13.6666Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Low 4K write test results&#13;<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-red-400 shrink-0 size-4\" width=\"14\" height=\"2\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 2\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M13.6666 0.333313V1.66665H0.333252V0.333313H13.6666Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Lacks heat spreader or heatsink&#13;<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<li class=\"flex items-baseline gap-x-3\">\n                                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"pt-1 text-red-400 shrink-0 size-4\" width=\"14\" height=\"2\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 2\" fill=\"currentColor\">\n    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M13.6666 0.333313V1.66665H0.333252V0.333313H13.6666Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                                    <span>Doesn&#8217;t support hardware-based encryption<\/span>\n                                <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"border-b-1 border-t-1 border-gray-300 [&amp;+section]:border-t-0\" x-data=\"{ drawerOpen:  false  }\">\n        <button class=\"rich-text my-4 flex w-full items-center justify-between gap-x-4 text-left md:my-6 [&amp;&gt;*]:!m-0 [&amp;&gt;*]:w-fit 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'expand' : 'collapse'\" x-track-ga-click=\"\"><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"font-stretch-ultra-condensed text-xl font-semibold md:text-2xl\">Why We Picked It<\/h4>\n<p>        <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col mb-8 rich-text !mb-0\" x-collapse=\"\" x-cloak=\"\" x-show=\"drawerOpen\">\n<p>Sandisk&#8217;s WD Blue SN5100, a DRAM-less PCIe 4.0 internal SSD with QLC NAND flash memory, demonstrated strong performance in most of our benchmarks, particularly in our general storage and gaming-centric tests. It comes with a free download of Acronis backup and migration software. It&#8217;s also designed for energy efficiency (but ships without a heatsink or heat spreader). It&#8217;s well worth considering if the price is right.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"border-b-1 border-t-1 border-gray-300 [&amp;+section]:border-t-0\" x-data=\"{ drawerOpen:  false  }\">\n        <button class=\"rich-text my-4 flex w-full items-center justify-between gap-x-4 text-left md:my-6 [&amp;&gt;*]:!m-0 [&amp;&gt;*]:w-fit [&amp;&gt;h4&gt;strong]:font-semibold\" data-module=\"Best_Product_Card\" data-element=\"product-card-dropdown\" data-title=\"Who It's For\" data-custom-object=\"roundup\" data-custom-template=\"roundup-page\" aria-label=\"Pros &amp; Cons\" aria-controls=\"pros-cons\" :data-custom-category=\"window.category\" :aria-expanded=\"drawerOpen\" :data-item=\"drawerOpen ? 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articleids=\\&quot;367479,363077,368665,358846,368565,362944,366044,368796,367506,368206\\&quot; attributeids=\\&quot;2899,634,31,637\\&quot; unlinktitle=\\&quot;true\\&quot; hideprice=\\&quot;true\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Finding the Best M.2 SSD Drive&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Under the hoods of the newest, skinniest &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-laptops\\&quot;&gt;laptops&lt;\\\/a&gt; (and in the hollows of the latest desktop-PC motherboards), solid-state storage is undergoing a transformation. Even if you're a close observer of all things tech, it's understandable if you didn't even realize it was happening.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;That's because the whole idea is to make the storage hardware itself close to invisible. Solid-state drives (SSDs) are migrating from the slab-like shapes of familiar hard drives into little sticks of memory that offer much the same capacities. And, in some cases, they're picking up speed along the way.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The traditional SSD that you buy and install in a &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-desktop-computers\\&quot;&gt;desktop PC&lt;\\\/a&gt;, or in place of a hard drive in a laptop, uses what's known as the \\&quot;2.5-inch drive\\&quot; form factor. (In actuality, the drives are about 2.75 inches wide.) These SSDs have the same dimensions that laptop-style hard drives do. SSD makers adopted this standard size to make SSDs compatible with existing laptop designs. (They could configure laptops with the choice of a hard drive or an SSD without any retooling.) Desktop PCs, meanwhile, could accommodate SSDs of this size with little fuss. You could mount them in a 3.5-inch drive bay using a simple bracket. Over time, too, desktop PC chassis have evolved to gain their own bays and mounting points for 2.5-inch drives.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;div&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;\\\/div&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;However, from an engineering point of view, SSDs didn't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;\\\/em&gt; to be that big.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The enclosure an SSD comes in has a lot of dead space inside. It's designed in that 2.5-inch size and shape to make the drive fit into those existing bays. So when mobile-device designers, challenged with slimming down laptops and tablets, reassessed this issue, the consensus was clear: The bulky 2.5-inch form factor, eventually, would have to go.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;At the core, an SSD is just a thin circuit board studded with flash-memory and controller chips. Why not design around that&lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_184 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Style replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;184\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;184\\&quot;&gt;?&lt;\\\/g&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe width=\\&quot;300\\&quot; height=\\&quot;150\\&quot; style=\\&quot;width: 100%; height: 100%;\\&quot; allowfullscreen=\\&quot;allowfullscreen\\&quot; frameborder=\\&quot;0\\&quot; src=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/mashable.com\\\/videos\\\/blueprint:Qml4bbOV0q\\\/embed\\\/?player=pcmag&amp;autoplay=true&amp;mute=true\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/iframe&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;&lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_184 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Style replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;184\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;184\\&quot;&gt;In&lt;\\\/g&gt; the Beginning, There Was mSATA...&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The first attempt was a new form factor called mini-SATA, or mSATA. The boiled-down essence of an SSD with the shell removed, &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_205 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;205\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;205\\&quot;&gt;an mSATA&lt;\\\/g&gt; drive is a bare, rectangular circuit board. (Most &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_203 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;203\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;203\\&quot;&gt;mSATA&lt;\\\/g&gt; drives relevant to upgraders measure about 1x2 inches.) mSATA drives fit into a special slot in a laptop's logic board or on a PC motherboard. As the name suggests, the slot is a conduit to the Serial ATA bus in the system. The interface on the drive end is an edge connector on the PCB, as opposed to the usual SATA cabling. The mSATA drive also draws all the power it needs through the slot.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;560954\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;By being reliant on SATA, mSATA drives gained all of the advantages and limitations of that interface, including the &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_206 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;206\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;206\\&quot;&gt;upper speed&lt;\\\/g&gt; limit of SATA 3.0, the latest revision of Serial ATA. That's not a bad thing, mind you. mSATA was also unusual in that it piggybacked on an existing connector, known as Mini-PCI, often used for installing small onboard components such as compact Wi-Fi cards.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, mSATA drives still linger on the market, primarily because some laptop models adopted the form factor a few years back, and residual demand exists as capacity upgrades. But it's definitely a fading form factor, and mSATA saw little adoption on desktop systems.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Even in mSATA's heyday, though, a replacement was in the works. During development, it was known by the prosaic name NGFF, for \\&quot;Next-Generation Form Factor,\\&quot; which still lingers. As it took shape, though, it took on its current, final name: M.2. The drives would be smaller, potentially more capacious, and, most important, not necessarily reliant on SATA.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;M.2: The Form Factor vs. the Bus&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;M.2 drives are as utilitarian as upgrades come: They look like sticks of gum studded with NAND modules and a controller chip. (\\&quot;NAND\\&quot; is the generic term for the flash-memory chips that make up the actual storage on the SSD; the term refers, technically, to the type of logic gates used in the underlying memory structure. See our primer &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/news\\\/buying-a-solid-state-drive-20-terms-you-need-to-know\\&quot;&gt;Buying an SSD: 20 Terms You Need to Know&lt;\\\/a&gt; for more SSD lingo explained.)&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;635962\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/span&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The key thing to remember about M.2 is that it is a form factor, a shape. The bus\u2014the data pathway over which the data travels to and from an M.2 drive\u2014is distinct from M.2 itself and can vary. And it can make all the difference.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;But first, the shape issue. Any M.2 drive you are looking at will be labeled with a four- or five-digit number as part of its specifications or model name. It's a measurement, in millimeters: The first two numbers define the drive's width, the second two the length.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The market has settled on 22mm wide as the standard for desktop and laptop implementations; the aftermarket drives available and the accessible slots we've seen have all been that width. The most common lengths we've seen are 80mm (\\&quot;M.2-2280\\&quot;) and 60mm (\\&quot;M.2-2260\\&quot;). The lengthier the drive, the more NAND chips you can tend to stuff on it (plus, M.2 drives can be single- or double-sided), though know that length isn't an absolute measure of capacity.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;560956\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, why does length matter? Fit, especially in the case of laptops. Most desktop motherboards with M.2 slots have screw-mounting points for several lengths of &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_194 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;194\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;194\\&quot;&gt;M.2&lt;\\\/g&gt; drive (usually, 80mm, 60mm, and 42mm), so length hasn't been an issue there. But it's a different matter in a laptop with a user-accessible M.2 slot. The bay may be space-limited to M.2 drives of a certain size. You'll want to check the space available before you shop.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;As we mentioned, M.2 drive length isn't always an indicator of drive capacity, but there &lt;em&gt;are&lt;\\\/em&gt; limits to NAND-chip density and how many memory modules engineers can stuff onto a PCB of a given size. As a result, most of the M.2 drives we've seen to date have topped out at 2TB. The typical capacity waypoints are 120GB or 128GB; 240GB, 250GB, or 256GB; 480GB, 500GB, or 512GB; 960GB or 1TB; and 2TB. (Smaller-capacity 32GB and 64GB M.2 SSDs are also available for use in embedded applications or for SSD caching, but these will be of only marginal interest to upgraders or PC builders.) Pricing on these drives ranges anywhere from 10 to 75 cents per gigabyte, and the biggest factor affecting price is the bus type of the drive.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, to reiterate an important point: A drive may come in the M.2 form factor, but that says nothing about the bus that it makes use of. Determining that is just as important as making sure it fits.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;The Bus-Interface Issue&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;This is the trickiest part of an M.2 upgrade. Most of the early M.2 drives were really just ordinary SATA drives stripped down to their fundamentals: a bare circuit board with a different physical &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_212 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;212\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;212\\&quot;&gt;connector,&lt;\\\/g&gt; but at heart the same drives as their 2.5-inch bigger brothers. Some of them still are. You won't see &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_211 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;211\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;211\\&quot;&gt;substantially&lt;\\\/g&gt; better performance with these M.2 SATA drives versus their 2.5-inch SATA equivalents, because ultimately your data is traveling along the exact same inner pathways inside the computer once it leaves the drive.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;That's not a bad thing. Especially in the case of laptops, a machine might support &lt;em&gt;only&lt;\\\/em&gt; M.2 SATA-bus SSDs, and that will be the boundary of your upgrade path...end of story. As a result, the only reason you'd upgrade the drive, in that situation, would be to get more capacity.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;More and more nowadays, though, lean, premium laptops can make use of PCI Express-bus M.2 SSDs. (Most new desktop motherboards with M.2 slots also support PCI Express M.2 SSDs.) With these, you may see a substantive increase in performance in benchmark testing, but in most real-world usage, they'll just feel like a fast, premium SATA SSD.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;637996\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The earliest versions of these M.2 PCI Express SSDs made use of the PCI Express Gen 2.0 x2 interface, which defines a throughput ceiling that's higher than SATA 3.0's, but not enormously so. That's changed. Most new, high-end M.2 drives, nowadays, support what's called PCI Express Gen 3.0 x4, paired with a technology called Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) to propel performance even further, especially with heavy, deeply queued workloads.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Beyond that is PCI Express 4.0. At this writing, we'd just gotten in the first PCI Express 4.0-compatible drives for testing, with read and write speeds rated as high as 5,000MBps. These drives are likely a peek at the future, but for the moment PCI Express 4.0 is supported only on desktop systems employing the AMD X570 (mainstream Ryzen) and AMD TRX40 (Ryzen Threadripper) chipsets.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Meet NVMe: The Speed Booster&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;NVMe is another technical &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_199 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;199\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;199\\&quot;&gt;hurdle,&lt;\\\/g&gt; because systems and motherboards need board-level support for these drives to be bootable. Most late-model motherboards now support PCI Express 3.0 x4 NVMe M.2 drives, but older boards are not guaranteed to support booting from an NVMe-based drive. Outside of new motherboards, these high-bandwidth, NVMe-capable connectors are only found in some recent laptops. Also note that in some cases, a laptop may support a PCI Express NVMe drive, but it may be soldered to the motherboard and thus not upgradable. So, if you're thinking of upgrading a recent laptop or convertible, be sure to consult your manual very closely before buying one of these drives.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;637989\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Among M.2 drives, PCI Express x4 M.2 drives that support NVMe are increasingly the norm among aftermarket purchases. We've tested a growing number, led by Samsung's field-leading and pioneering SSD Pro and SSD EVO families. Ever since those Samsung drives pioneered the way, though, we've also seen fine NVMe-capable models from ADATA, Plextor, WD, and many others.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;These are indeed impressively fast drives, leaving the fastest SATA-based drives well behind. But know that they are more relevant for PC builders or folks upgrading very recent systems rather than older PCs, which may not have an M.2 slot, or may have an M.2 slot but not one that supports PCI Express and\\\/or NVMe\u2014only SATA-based M.2. So, as we said in the previous paragraph, make sure that your system supports this kind of drive &lt;em&gt;before&lt;\\\/em&gt; picking one up. You don't want to bring home one of the fastest consumer drives available, only to find your system won't boot with it installed.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Basic Compatibility, Card-Based M.2, and Optane Memory&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Okay, back from Planet NVMe. Today, the real choice if you're M.2-shopping will be between basic SATA and PCI Express M.2 drives, and for most users, those options will be dictated simply by what your motherboard or laptop can accept. A careful browse of support forums or a call to the vendor's support line should unravel the M.2 bus-compatibility details. On the desktop side of the aisle, many recent M.2-equipped mobos support both kinds.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;If you're looking to upgrade a desktop but your PC's motherboard doesn't have an M.2 slot at all, one incidental option is what we call an \\&quot;M.2 drive on a card.\\&quot; We've seen solutions like this from storage stalwarts like Plextor and Kingston. Asus also offers an M.2 \\&quot;carrier card\\&quot; like these makers use. In essence, these products put your M.2 drive on a PCI Express expansion card and let you tap their speed through the PCI Express slots in a PC that lacks an M.2 slot. Some such cards support multiple M.2 drives, too. A few of the latest high-end AMD motherboards supporting PCI Express 4.0 even bundle such cards, supporting two or four M.2 drives, to supplement onboard M.2 slots.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;610249\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;We actually like these because often, you get a heat sink on the M.2 drive. Some PCI Express-bus M.2 SSDs can run hot under sustained read\\\/write tasks and throttle their speed. That said, unless you're running a server or something similar, where a drive is constantly getting hammered, that's usually not something you have to worry about. That's because many of these drives are so fast, they get their transfer duties done before they have a chance to get all that hot.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;One last caveat to drop in before we get to our product recommendations surrounds Intel's SSD line. Intel sells a family of M.2-based storage products under the brand name Optane. Know that there are two very distinct types of drives here, which may look identical. Intel's &lt;em&gt;Optane SSDs&lt;\\\/em&gt; are SSDs like any other, bootable drives that can serve as a stand-alone boot drive or as secondary storage.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Intel's &lt;em&gt;Optane Memory&lt;\\\/em&gt;, however, is a different animal. This is an M.2-format module that &lt;em&gt;looks&lt;\\\/em&gt; like an SSD, but serves as an accelerating cache for another drive, usually a hard drive. Again, these are not the same thing; if you're buying an Optane drive, make sure you know what you are buying. You can read a lot more about &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/review\\\/360897\\\/intel-optane-memory-32gb\\&quot;&gt;Optane Memory in our deep-dive review&lt;\\\/a&gt; of the first generation.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;573142\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;M.2 Upgrades and Boot Drives: What to Look For&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the cutting edge! You're shopping for a kind of drive that most folks don't even realize exists. As a result, you need to pay attention to several factors that may not be documented very well while you shop. Let's recap.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check the physical size.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; Make sure the width and especially the length (expressed in millimeters) will work in the space available for the drive. (This is mainly an issue with laptops.) Most will be 22mm wide, but the length varies: 42mm, 60mm, 80mm, 110mm are the most common sizes.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;632941\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Know which bus you're on.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; In a laptop-upgrade scenario, you're almost certainly swapping out one M.2 drive for another, with the intent of gaining capacity. Make sure you know the specifications of the drive coming out of your system\u2014and whether it's reliant on the SATA or PCI Express bus\u2014so you can install the same, presumably roomier kind going in.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;For a desktop, it's a bit trickier. Some motherboard M.2 slots support either SATA-bus or PCI Express-bus M.2 drives on the same slot. Others support only SATA M.2 drives, &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_221 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;221\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;221\\&quot;&gt;still&lt;\\\/g&gt; others support only PCI Express M.2 drives. (And, in the case of PCI Express M.2, not all motherboards support PCIe x4 or NVMe!) You need to know what your board is optimized to use and buy accordingly. All else being equal, PCI Express should give you a speed boost over a SATA model, but for everyday tasks, a SATA SSD will serve just as well, and be indistinguishable in most cases from a PCI Express one.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Also, with the very latest drives, look for PCI Express 4.0 support. You'll want to have a compliant late-model AMD motherboard if you buy one of those.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check for bootability.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; If you're installing an M.2 in a desktop board for the first time, verify with the board maker that an M.2 SSD of the bus type you are considering will be bootable. Though unlikely, a BIOS upgrade may be necessary.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Compare the cost per gig.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; Cost per gigabyte is the main yardstick whereby you can price-compare similar M.2 drives from different makers. Expect to pay more for PCI Express bus models, all else being equal, but the cost differences are narrowing. Divide the price (in dollars) by the capacity of the drive (in gigabytes) to get the cost per gig. For example, a 500GB drive that's selling for $99 works out to about 20 cents per gigabyte. Use this as a &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_224 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling\\&quot; id=\\&quot;224\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;224\\&quot;&gt;value&lt;\\\/g&gt; yardstick.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Ready for Our Recommendations?&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Below are the top M.2 solid-state drives that we've reviewed. You can also check out our roundups of the &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-internal-ssds\\&quot;&gt;best external SSDs&lt;\\\/a&gt;, as well as the &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/roundup\\\/294184\\\/the-best-external-hard-drives-for-mac\\&quot;&gt;best external hard drives for Mac&lt;\\\/a&gt;, and the overall &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-external-hard-drives\\&quot;&gt;best external hard drives&lt;\\\/a&gt;.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffroundupbottom title=\\&quot;Best M.2 Solid-State Drives Featured in This Roundup:\\&quot; 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Even if you're a close observer of all things tech, it's understandable if you didn't even realize it was happening.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;That's because the whole idea is to make the storage hardware itself close to invisible. Solid-state drives (SSDs) are migrating from the slab-like shapes of familiar hard drives into little sticks of memory that offer much the same capacities. And, in some cases, they're picking up speed along the way.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The traditional SSD that you buy and install in a &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-desktop-computers\\&quot;&gt;desktop PC&lt;\\\/a&gt;, or in place of a hard drive in a laptop, uses what's known as the \\&quot;2.5-inch drive\\&quot; form factor. (In actuality, the drives are about 2.75 inches wide.) These SSDs have the same dimensions that laptop-style hard drives do. SSD makers adopted this standard size to make SSDs compatible with existing laptop designs. (They could configure laptops with the choice of a hard drive or an SSD without any retooling.) Desktop PCs, meanwhile, could accommodate SSDs of this size with little fuss. You could mount them in a 3.5-inch drive bay using a simple bracket. Over time, too, desktop PC chassis have evolved to gain their own bays and mounting points for 2.5-inch drives.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;div&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;\\\/div&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;However, from an engineering point of view, SSDs didn't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;\\\/em&gt; to be that big.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The enclosure an SSD comes in has a lot of dead space inside. It's designed in that 2.5-inch size and shape to make the drive fit into those existing bays. 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The mSATA drive also draws all the power it needs through the slot.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;560954\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;By being reliant on SATA, mSATA drives gained all of the advantages and limitations of that interface, including the &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_206 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;206\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;206\\&quot;&gt;upper speed&lt;\\\/g&gt; limit of SATA 3.0, the latest revision of Serial ATA. That's not a bad thing, mind you. mSATA was also unusual in that it piggybacked on an existing connector, known as Mini-PCI, often used for installing small onboard components such as compact Wi-Fi cards.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, mSATA drives still linger on the market, primarily because some laptop models adopted the form factor a few years back, and residual demand exists as capacity upgrades. But it's definitely a fading form factor, and mSATA saw little adoption on desktop systems.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Even in mSATA's heyday, though, a replacement was in the works. During development, it was known by the prosaic name NGFF, for \\&quot;Next-Generation Form Factor,\\&quot; which still lingers. As it took shape, though, it took on its current, final name: M.2. The drives would be smaller, potentially more capacious, and, most important, not necessarily reliant on SATA.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;M.2: The Form Factor vs. the Bus&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;M.2 drives are as utilitarian as upgrades come: They look like sticks of gum studded with NAND modules and a controller chip. (\\&quot;NAND\\&quot; is the generic term for the flash-memory chips that make up the actual storage on the SSD; the term refers, technically, to the type of logic gates used in the underlying memory structure. See our primer &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/news\\\/buying-a-solid-state-drive-20-terms-you-need-to-know\\&quot;&gt;Buying an SSD: 20 Terms You Need to Know&lt;\\\/a&gt; for more SSD lingo explained.)&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;635962\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/span&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The key thing to remember about M.2 is that it is a form factor, a shape. The bus\u2014the data pathway over which the data travels to and from an M.2 drive\u2014is distinct from M.2 itself and can vary. And it can make all the difference.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;But first, the shape issue. Any M.2 drive you are looking at will be labeled with a four- or five-digit number as part of its specifications or model name. It's a measurement, in millimeters: The first two numbers define the drive's width, the second two the length.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The market has settled on 22mm wide as the standard for desktop and laptop implementations; the aftermarket drives available and the accessible slots we've seen have all been that width. The most common lengths we've seen are 80mm (\\&quot;M.2-2280\\&quot;) and 60mm (\\&quot;M.2-2260\\&quot;). The lengthier the drive, the more NAND chips you can tend to stuff on it (plus, M.2 drives can be single- or double-sided), though know that length isn't an absolute measure of capacity.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;560956\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, why does length matter? Fit, especially in the case of laptops. Most desktop motherboards with M.2 slots have screw-mounting points for several lengths of &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_194 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;194\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;194\\&quot;&gt;M.2&lt;\\\/g&gt; drive (usually, 80mm, 60mm, and 42mm), so length hasn't been an issue there. But it's a different matter in a laptop with a user-accessible M.2 slot. The bay may be space-limited to M.2 drives of a certain size. You'll want to check the space available before you shop.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;As we mentioned, M.2 drive length isn't always an indicator of drive capacity, but there &lt;em&gt;are&lt;\\\/em&gt; limits to NAND-chip density and how many memory modules engineers can stuff onto a PCB of a given size. As a result, most of the M.2 drives we've seen to date have topped out at 2TB. The typical capacity waypoints are 120GB or 128GB; 240GB, 250GB, or 256GB; 480GB, 500GB, or 512GB; 960GB or 1TB; and 2TB. (Smaller-capacity 32GB and 64GB M.2 SSDs are also available for use in embedded applications or for SSD caching, but these will be of only marginal interest to upgraders or PC builders.) Pricing on these drives ranges anywhere from 10 to 75 cents per gigabyte, and the biggest factor affecting price is the bus type of the drive.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, to reiterate an important point: A drive may come in the M.2 form factor, but that says nothing about the bus that it makes use of. Determining that is just as important as making sure it fits.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;The Bus-Interface Issue&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;This is the trickiest part of an M.2 upgrade. Most of the early M.2 drives were really just ordinary SATA drives stripped down to their fundamentals: a bare circuit board with a different physical &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_212 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;212\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;212\\&quot;&gt;connector,&lt;\\\/g&gt; but at heart the same drives as their 2.5-inch bigger brothers. Some of them still are. You won't see &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_211 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;211\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;211\\&quot;&gt;substantially&lt;\\\/g&gt; better performance with these M.2 SATA drives versus their 2.5-inch SATA equivalents, because ultimately your data is traveling along the exact same inner pathways inside the computer once it leaves the drive.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;That's not a bad thing. Especially in the case of laptops, a machine might support &lt;em&gt;only&lt;\\\/em&gt; M.2 SATA-bus SSDs, and that will be the boundary of your upgrade path...end of story. As a result, the only reason you'd upgrade the drive, in that situation, would be to get more capacity.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;More and more nowadays, though, lean, premium laptops can make use of PCI Express-bus M.2 SSDs. (Most new desktop motherboards with M.2 slots also support PCI Express M.2 SSDs.) With these, you may see a substantive increase in performance in benchmark testing, but in most real-world usage, they'll just feel like a fast, premium SATA SSD.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;637996\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The earliest versions of these M.2 PCI Express SSDs made use of the PCI Express Gen 2.0 x2 interface, which defines a throughput ceiling that's higher than SATA 3.0's, but not enormously so. That's changed. Most new, high-end M.2 drives, nowadays, support what's called PCI Express Gen 3.0 x4, paired with a technology called Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) to propel performance even further, especially with heavy, deeply queued workloads.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Beyond that is PCI Express 4.0. At this writing, we'd just gotten in the first PCI Express 4.0-compatible drives for testing, with read and write speeds rated as high as 5,000MBps. These drives are likely a peek at the future, but for the moment PCI Express 4.0 is supported only on desktop systems employing the AMD X570 (mainstream Ryzen) and AMD TRX40 (Ryzen Threadripper) chipsets.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Meet NVMe: The Speed Booster&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;NVMe is another technical &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_199 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;199\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;199\\&quot;&gt;hurdle,&lt;\\\/g&gt; because systems and motherboards need board-level support for these drives to be bootable. Most late-model motherboards now support PCI Express 3.0 x4 NVMe M.2 drives, but older boards are not guaranteed to support booting from an NVMe-based drive. Outside of new motherboards, these high-bandwidth, NVMe-capable connectors are only found in some recent laptops. Also note that in some cases, a laptop may support a PCI Express NVMe drive, but it may be soldered to the motherboard and thus not upgradable. So, if you're thinking of upgrading a recent laptop or convertible, be sure to consult your manual very closely before buying one of these drives.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;637989\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Among M.2 drives, PCI Express x4 M.2 drives that support NVMe are increasingly the norm among aftermarket purchases. We've tested a growing number, led by Samsung's field-leading and pioneering SSD Pro and SSD EVO families. Ever since those Samsung drives pioneered the way, though, we've also seen fine NVMe-capable models from ADATA, Plextor, WD, and many others.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;These are indeed impressively fast drives, leaving the fastest SATA-based drives well behind. But know that they are more relevant for PC builders or folks upgrading very recent systems rather than older PCs, which may not have an M.2 slot, or may have an M.2 slot but not one that supports PCI Express and\\\/or NVMe\u2014only SATA-based M.2. So, as we said in the previous paragraph, make sure that your system supports this kind of drive &lt;em&gt;before&lt;\\\/em&gt; picking one up. You don't want to bring home one of the fastest consumer drives available, only to find your system won't boot with it installed.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Basic Compatibility, Card-Based M.2, and Optane Memory&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Okay, back from Planet NVMe. Today, the real choice if you're M.2-shopping will be between basic SATA and PCI Express M.2 drives, and for most users, those options will be dictated simply by what your motherboard or laptop can accept. A careful browse of support forums or a call to the vendor's support line should unravel the M.2 bus-compatibility details. On the desktop side of the aisle, many recent M.2-equipped mobos support both kinds.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;If you're looking to upgrade a desktop but your PC's motherboard doesn't have an M.2 slot at all, one incidental option is what we call an \\&quot;M.2 drive on a card.\\&quot; We've seen solutions like this from storage stalwarts like Plextor and Kingston. Asus also offers an M.2 \\&quot;carrier card\\&quot; like these makers use. In essence, these products put your M.2 drive on a PCI Express expansion card and let you tap their speed through the PCI Express slots in a PC that lacks an M.2 slot. Some such cards support multiple M.2 drives, too. A few of the latest high-end AMD motherboards supporting PCI Express 4.0 even bundle such cards, supporting two or four M.2 drives, to supplement onboard M.2 slots.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;610249\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;We actually like these because often, you get a heat sink on the M.2 drive. Some PCI Express-bus M.2 SSDs can run hot under sustained read\\\/write tasks and throttle their speed. That said, unless you're running a server or something similar, where a drive is constantly getting hammered, that's usually not something you have to worry about. That's because many of these drives are so fast, they get their transfer duties done before they have a chance to get all that hot.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;One last caveat to drop in before we get to our product recommendations surrounds Intel's SSD line. Intel sells a family of M.2-based storage products under the brand name Optane. Know that there are two very distinct types of drives here, which may look identical. Intel's &lt;em&gt;Optane SSDs&lt;\\\/em&gt; are SSDs like any other, bootable drives that can serve as a stand-alone boot drive or as secondary storage.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Intel's &lt;em&gt;Optane Memory&lt;\\\/em&gt;, however, is a different animal. This is an M.2-format module that &lt;em&gt;looks&lt;\\\/em&gt; like an SSD, but serves as an accelerating cache for another drive, usually a hard drive. Again, these are not the same thing; if you're buying an Optane drive, make sure you know what you are buying. You can read a lot more about &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/review\\\/360897\\\/intel-optane-memory-32gb\\&quot;&gt;Optane Memory in our deep-dive review&lt;\\\/a&gt; of the first generation.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;573142\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;M.2 Upgrades and Boot Drives: What to Look For&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the cutting edge! You're shopping for a kind of drive that most folks don't even realize exists. As a result, you need to pay attention to several factors that may not be documented very well while you shop. Let's recap.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check the physical size.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; Make sure the width and especially the length (expressed in millimeters) will work in the space available for the drive. (This is mainly an issue with laptops.) Most will be 22mm wide, but the length varies: 42mm, 60mm, 80mm, 110mm are the most common sizes.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;632941\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Know which bus you're on.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; In a laptop-upgrade scenario, you're almost certainly swapping out one M.2 drive for another, with the intent of gaining capacity. Make sure you know the specifications of the drive coming out of your system\u2014and whether it's reliant on the SATA or PCI Express bus\u2014so you can install the same, presumably roomier kind going in.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;For a desktop, it's a bit trickier. Some motherboard M.2 slots support either SATA-bus or PCI Express-bus M.2 drives on the same slot. Others support only SATA M.2 drives, &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_221 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;221\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;221\\&quot;&gt;still&lt;\\\/g&gt; others support only PCI Express M.2 drives. (And, in the case of PCI Express M.2, not all motherboards support PCIe x4 or NVMe!) You need to know what your board is optimized to use and buy accordingly. All else being equal, PCI Express should give you a speed boost over a SATA model, but for everyday tasks, a SATA SSD will serve just as well, and be indistinguishable in most cases from a PCI Express one.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Also, with the very latest drives, look for PCI Express 4.0 support. You'll want to have a compliant late-model AMD motherboard if you buy one of those.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check for bootability.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; If you're installing an M.2 in a desktop board for the first time, verify with the board maker that an M.2 SSD of the bus type you are considering will be bootable. Though unlikely, a BIOS upgrade may be necessary.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Compare the cost per gig.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; Cost per gigabyte is the main yardstick whereby you can price-compare similar M.2 drives from different makers. Expect to pay more for PCI Express bus models, all else being equal, but the cost differences are narrowing. Divide the price (in dollars) by the capacity of the drive (in gigabytes) to get the cost per gig. For example, a 500GB drive that's selling for $99 works out to about 20 cents per gigabyte. Use this as a &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_224 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling\\&quot; id=\\&quot;224\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;224\\&quot;&gt;value&lt;\\\/g&gt; yardstick.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Ready for Our Recommendations?&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Below are the top M.2 solid-state drives that we've reviewed. You can also check out our roundups of the &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-internal-ssds\\&quot;&gt;best external SSDs&lt;\\\/a&gt;, as well as the &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/roundup\\\/294184\\\/the-best-external-hard-drives-for-mac\\&quot;&gt;best external hard drives for Mac&lt;\\\/a&gt;, and the overall &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-external-hard-drives\\&quot;&gt;best external hard drives&lt;\\\/a&gt;.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffroundupbottom title=\\&quot;Best M.2 Solid-State Drives Featured in This Roundup:\\&quot; 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Even if you're a close observer of all things tech, it's understandable if you didn't even realize it was happening.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;That's because the whole idea is to make the storage hardware itself close to invisible. Solid-state drives (SSDs) are migrating from the slab-like shapes of familiar hard drives into little sticks of memory that offer much the same capacities. And, in some cases, they're picking up speed along the way.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The traditional SSD that you buy and install in a &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-desktop-computers\\&quot;&gt;desktop PC&lt;\\\/a&gt;, or in place of a hard drive in a laptop, uses what's known as the \\&quot;2.5-inch drive\\&quot; form factor. (In actuality, the drives are about 2.75 inches wide.) These SSDs have the same dimensions that laptop-style hard drives do. SSD makers adopted this standard size to make SSDs compatible with existing laptop designs. (They could configure laptops with the choice of a hard drive or an SSD without any retooling.) Desktop PCs, meanwhile, could accommodate SSDs of this size with little fuss. You could mount them in a 3.5-inch drive bay using a simple bracket. Over time, too, desktop PC chassis have evolved to gain their own bays and mounting points for 2.5-inch drives.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;div&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;\\\/div&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;However, from an engineering point of view, SSDs didn't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;\\\/em&gt; to be that big.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The enclosure an SSD comes in has a lot of dead space inside. It's designed in that 2.5-inch size and shape to make the drive fit into those existing bays. 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The boiled-down essence of an SSD with the shell removed, &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_205 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;205\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;205\\&quot;&gt;an mSATA&lt;\\\/g&gt; drive is a bare, rectangular circuit board. (Most &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_203 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;203\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;203\\&quot;&gt;mSATA&lt;\\\/g&gt; drives relevant to upgraders measure about 1x2 inches.) mSATA drives fit into a special slot in a laptop's logic board or on a PC motherboard. As the name suggests, the slot is a conduit to the Serial ATA bus in the system. The interface on the drive end is an edge connector on the PCB, as opposed to the usual SATA cabling. The mSATA drive also draws all the power it needs through the slot.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;560954\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;By being reliant on SATA, mSATA drives gained all of the advantages and limitations of that interface, including the &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_206 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;206\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;206\\&quot;&gt;upper speed&lt;\\\/g&gt; limit of SATA 3.0, the latest revision of Serial ATA. That's not a bad thing, mind you. mSATA was also unusual in that it piggybacked on an existing connector, known as Mini-PCI, often used for installing small onboard components such as compact Wi-Fi cards.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, mSATA drives still linger on the market, primarily because some laptop models adopted the form factor a few years back, and residual demand exists as capacity upgrades. But it's definitely a fading form factor, and mSATA saw little adoption on desktop systems.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Even in mSATA's heyday, though, a replacement was in the works. During development, it was known by the prosaic name NGFF, for \\&quot;Next-Generation Form Factor,\\&quot; which still lingers. As it took shape, though, it took on its current, final name: M.2. The drives would be smaller, potentially more capacious, and, most important, not necessarily reliant on SATA.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;M.2: The Form Factor vs. the Bus&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;M.2 drives are as utilitarian as upgrades come: They look like sticks of gum studded with NAND modules and a controller chip. (\\&quot;NAND\\&quot; is the generic term for the flash-memory chips that make up the actual storage on the SSD; the term refers, technically, to the type of logic gates used in the underlying memory structure. See our primer &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/news\\\/buying-a-solid-state-drive-20-terms-you-need-to-know\\&quot;&gt;Buying an SSD: 20 Terms You Need to Know&lt;\\\/a&gt; for more SSD lingo explained.)&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;635962\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/span&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The key thing to remember about M.2 is that it is a form factor, a shape. The bus\u2014the data pathway over which the data travels to and from an M.2 drive\u2014is distinct from M.2 itself and can vary. And it can make all the difference.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;But first, the shape issue. Any M.2 drive you are looking at will be labeled with a four- or five-digit number as part of its specifications or model name. It's a measurement, in millimeters: The first two numbers define the drive's width, the second two the length.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The market has settled on 22mm wide as the standard for desktop and laptop implementations; the aftermarket drives available and the accessible slots we've seen have all been that width. The most common lengths we've seen are 80mm (\\&quot;M.2-2280\\&quot;) and 60mm (\\&quot;M.2-2260\\&quot;). The lengthier the drive, the more NAND chips you can tend to stuff on it (plus, M.2 drives can be single- or double-sided), though know that length isn't an absolute measure of capacity.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;560956\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, why does length matter? Fit, especially in the case of laptops. Most desktop motherboards with M.2 slots have screw-mounting points for several lengths of &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_194 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;194\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;194\\&quot;&gt;M.2&lt;\\\/g&gt; drive (usually, 80mm, 60mm, and 42mm), so length hasn't been an issue there. But it's a different matter in a laptop with a user-accessible M.2 slot. The bay may be space-limited to M.2 drives of a certain size. You'll want to check the space available before you shop.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;As we mentioned, M.2 drive length isn't always an indicator of drive capacity, but there &lt;em&gt;are&lt;\\\/em&gt; limits to NAND-chip density and how many memory modules engineers can stuff onto a PCB of a given size. As a result, most of the M.2 drives we've seen to date have topped out at 2TB. The typical capacity waypoints are 120GB or 128GB; 240GB, 250GB, or 256GB; 480GB, 500GB, or 512GB; 960GB or 1TB; and 2TB. (Smaller-capacity 32GB and 64GB M.2 SSDs are also available for use in embedded applications or for SSD caching, but these will be of only marginal interest to upgraders or PC builders.) Pricing on these drives ranges anywhere from 10 to 75 cents per gigabyte, and the biggest factor affecting price is the bus type of the drive.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, to reiterate an important point: A drive may come in the M.2 form factor, but that says nothing about the bus that it makes use of. Determining that is just as important as making sure it fits.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;The Bus-Interface Issue&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;This is the trickiest part of an M.2 upgrade. Most of the early M.2 drives were really just ordinary SATA drives stripped down to their fundamentals: a bare circuit board with a different physical &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_212 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;212\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;212\\&quot;&gt;connector,&lt;\\\/g&gt; but at heart the same drives as their 2.5-inch bigger brothers. Some of them still are. You won't see &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_211 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;211\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;211\\&quot;&gt;substantially&lt;\\\/g&gt; better performance with these M.2 SATA drives versus their 2.5-inch SATA equivalents, because ultimately your data is traveling along the exact same inner pathways inside the computer once it leaves the drive.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;That's not a bad thing. Especially in the case of laptops, a machine might support &lt;em&gt;only&lt;\\\/em&gt; M.2 SATA-bus SSDs, and that will be the boundary of your upgrade path...end of story. As a result, the only reason you'd upgrade the drive, in that situation, would be to get more capacity.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;More and more nowadays, though, lean, premium laptops can make use of PCI Express-bus M.2 SSDs. (Most new desktop motherboards with M.2 slots also support PCI Express M.2 SSDs.) With these, you may see a substantive increase in performance in benchmark testing, but in most real-world usage, they'll just feel like a fast, premium SATA SSD.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;637996\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The earliest versions of these M.2 PCI Express SSDs made use of the PCI Express Gen 2.0 x2 interface, which defines a throughput ceiling that's higher than SATA 3.0's, but not enormously so. That's changed. Most new, high-end M.2 drives, nowadays, support what's called PCI Express Gen 3.0 x4, paired with a technology called Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) to propel performance even further, especially with heavy, deeply queued workloads.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Beyond that is PCI Express 4.0. At this writing, we'd just gotten in the first PCI Express 4.0-compatible drives for testing, with read and write speeds rated as high as 5,000MBps. These drives are likely a peek at the future, but for the moment PCI Express 4.0 is supported only on desktop systems employing the AMD X570 (mainstream Ryzen) and AMD TRX40 (Ryzen Threadripper) chipsets.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Meet NVMe: The Speed Booster&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;NVMe is another technical &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_199 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;199\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;199\\&quot;&gt;hurdle,&lt;\\\/g&gt; because systems and motherboards need board-level support for these drives to be bootable. Most late-model motherboards now support PCI Express 3.0 x4 NVMe M.2 drives, but older boards are not guaranteed to support booting from an NVMe-based drive. Outside of new motherboards, these high-bandwidth, NVMe-capable connectors are only found in some recent laptops. Also note that in some cases, a laptop may support a PCI Express NVMe drive, but it may be soldered to the motherboard and thus not upgradable. So, if you're thinking of upgrading a recent laptop or convertible, be sure to consult your manual very closely before buying one of these drives.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;637989\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Among M.2 drives, PCI Express x4 M.2 drives that support NVMe are increasingly the norm among aftermarket purchases. We've tested a growing number, led by Samsung's field-leading and pioneering SSD Pro and SSD EVO families. Ever since those Samsung drives pioneered the way, though, we've also seen fine NVMe-capable models from ADATA, Plextor, WD, and many others.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;These are indeed impressively fast drives, leaving the fastest SATA-based drives well behind. But know that they are more relevant for PC builders or folks upgrading very recent systems rather than older PCs, which may not have an M.2 slot, or may have an M.2 slot but not one that supports PCI Express and\\\/or NVMe\u2014only SATA-based M.2. So, as we said in the previous paragraph, make sure that your system supports this kind of drive &lt;em&gt;before&lt;\\\/em&gt; picking one up. You don't want to bring home one of the fastest consumer drives available, only to find your system won't boot with it installed.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Basic Compatibility, Card-Based M.2, and Optane Memory&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Okay, back from Planet NVMe. Today, the real choice if you're M.2-shopping will be between basic SATA and PCI Express M.2 drives, and for most users, those options will be dictated simply by what your motherboard or laptop can accept. A careful browse of support forums or a call to the vendor's support line should unravel the M.2 bus-compatibility details. On the desktop side of the aisle, many recent M.2-equipped mobos support both kinds.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;If you're looking to upgrade a desktop but your PC's motherboard doesn't have an M.2 slot at all, one incidental option is what we call an \\&quot;M.2 drive on a card.\\&quot; We've seen solutions like this from storage stalwarts like Plextor and Kingston. Asus also offers an M.2 \\&quot;carrier card\\&quot; like these makers use. In essence, these products put your M.2 drive on a PCI Express expansion card and let you tap their speed through the PCI Express slots in a PC that lacks an M.2 slot. Some such cards support multiple M.2 drives, too. A few of the latest high-end AMD motherboards supporting PCI Express 4.0 even bundle such cards, supporting two or four M.2 drives, to supplement onboard M.2 slots.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;610249\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;We actually like these because often, you get a heat sink on the M.2 drive. Some PCI Express-bus M.2 SSDs can run hot under sustained read\\\/write tasks and throttle their speed. That said, unless you're running a server or something similar, where a drive is constantly getting hammered, that's usually not something you have to worry about. That's because many of these drives are so fast, they get their transfer duties done before they have a chance to get all that hot.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;One last caveat to drop in before we get to our product recommendations surrounds Intel's SSD line. Intel sells a family of M.2-based storage products under the brand name Optane. Know that there are two very distinct types of drives here, which may look identical. Intel's &lt;em&gt;Optane SSDs&lt;\\\/em&gt; are SSDs like any other, bootable drives that can serve as a stand-alone boot drive or as secondary storage.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Intel's &lt;em&gt;Optane Memory&lt;\\\/em&gt;, however, is a different animal. This is an M.2-format module that &lt;em&gt;looks&lt;\\\/em&gt; like an SSD, but serves as an accelerating cache for another drive, usually a hard drive. Again, these are not the same thing; if you're buying an Optane drive, make sure you know what you are buying. You can read a lot more about &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/review\\\/360897\\\/intel-optane-memory-32gb\\&quot;&gt;Optane Memory in our deep-dive review&lt;\\\/a&gt; of the first generation.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;573142\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;M.2 Upgrades and Boot Drives: What to Look For&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the cutting edge! You're shopping for a kind of drive that most folks don't even realize exists. As a result, you need to pay attention to several factors that may not be documented very well while you shop. Let's recap.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check the physical size.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; Make sure the width and especially the length (expressed in millimeters) will work in the space available for the drive. (This is mainly an issue with laptops.) Most will be 22mm wide, but the length varies: 42mm, 60mm, 80mm, 110mm are the most common sizes.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;632941\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Know which bus you're on.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; In a laptop-upgrade scenario, you're almost certainly swapping out one M.2 drive for another, with the intent of gaining capacity. Make sure you know the specifications of the drive coming out of your system\u2014and whether it's reliant on the SATA or PCI Express bus\u2014so you can install the same, presumably roomier kind going in.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;For a desktop, it's a bit trickier. Some motherboard M.2 slots support either SATA-bus or PCI Express-bus M.2 drives on the same slot. Others support only SATA M.2 drives, &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_221 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;221\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;221\\&quot;&gt;still&lt;\\\/g&gt; others support only PCI Express M.2 drives. (And, in the case of PCI Express M.2, not all motherboards support PCIe x4 or NVMe!) You need to know what your board is optimized to use and buy accordingly. All else being equal, PCI Express should give you a speed boost over a SATA model, but for everyday tasks, a SATA SSD will serve just as well, and be indistinguishable in most cases from a PCI Express one.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Also, with the very latest drives, look for PCI Express 4.0 support. You'll want to have a compliant late-model AMD motherboard if you buy one of those.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check for bootability.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; If you're installing an M.2 in a desktop board for the first time, verify with the board maker that an M.2 SSD of the bus type you are considering will be bootable. Though unlikely, a BIOS upgrade may be necessary.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Compare the cost per gig.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; Cost per gigabyte is the main yardstick whereby you can price-compare similar M.2 drives from different makers. Expect to pay more for PCI Express bus models, all else being equal, but the cost differences are narrowing. Divide the price (in dollars) by the capacity of the drive (in gigabytes) to get the cost per gig. For example, a 500GB drive that's selling for $99 works out to about 20 cents per gigabyte. Use this as a &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_224 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling\\&quot; id=\\&quot;224\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;224\\&quot;&gt;value&lt;\\\/g&gt; yardstick.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Ready for Our Recommendations?&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Below are the top M.2 solid-state drives that we've reviewed. You can also check out our roundups of the &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-internal-ssds\\&quot;&gt;best external SSDs&lt;\\\/a&gt;, as well as the &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/roundup\\\/294184\\\/the-best-external-hard-drives-for-mac\\&quot;&gt;best external hard drives for Mac&lt;\\\/a&gt;, and the overall &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-external-hard-drives\\&quot;&gt;best external hard drives&lt;\\\/a&gt;.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffroundupbottom title=\\&quot;Best M.2 Solid-State Drives Featured in This Roundup:\\&quot; 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Even if you're a close observer of all things tech, it's understandable if you didn't even realize it was happening.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;That's because the whole idea is to make the storage hardware itself close to invisible. Solid-state drives (SSDs) are migrating from the slab-like shapes of familiar hard drives into little sticks of memory that offer much the same capacities. And, in some cases, they're picking up speed along the way.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The traditional SSD that you buy and install in a &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-desktop-computers\\&quot;&gt;desktop PC&lt;\\\/a&gt;, or in place of a hard drive in a laptop, uses what's known as the \\&quot;2.5-inch drive\\&quot; form factor. (In actuality, the drives are about 2.75 inches wide.) These SSDs have the same dimensions that laptop-style hard drives do. SSD makers adopted this standard size to make SSDs compatible with existing laptop designs. (They could configure laptops with the choice of a hard drive or an SSD without any retooling.) Desktop PCs, meanwhile, could accommodate SSDs of this size with little fuss. You could mount them in a 3.5-inch drive bay using a simple bracket. Over time, too, desktop PC chassis have evolved to gain their own bays and mounting points for 2.5-inch drives.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;div&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;\\\/div&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;However, from an engineering point of view, SSDs didn't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;\\\/em&gt; to be that big.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The enclosure an SSD comes in has a lot of dead space inside. It's designed in that 2.5-inch size and shape to make the drive fit into those existing bays. So when mobile-device designers, challenged with slimming down laptops and tablets, reassessed this issue, the consensus was clear: The bulky 2.5-inch form factor, eventually, would have to go.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;At the core, an SSD is just a thin circuit board studded with flash-memory and controller chips. Why not design around that&lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_184 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Style replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;184\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;184\\&quot;&gt;?&lt;\\\/g&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe width=\\&quot;300\\&quot; height=\\&quot;150\\&quot; style=\\&quot;width: 100%; height: 100%;\\&quot; allowfullscreen=\\&quot;allowfullscreen\\&quot; frameborder=\\&quot;0\\&quot; src=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/mashable.com\\\/videos\\\/blueprint:Qml4bbOV0q\\\/embed\\\/?player=pcmag&amp;autoplay=true&amp;mute=true\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/iframe&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;&lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_184 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Style replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;184\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;184\\&quot;&gt;In&lt;\\\/g&gt; the Beginning, There Was mSATA...&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The first attempt was a new form factor called mini-SATA, or mSATA. The boiled-down essence of an SSD with the shell removed, &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_205 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;205\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;205\\&quot;&gt;an mSATA&lt;\\\/g&gt; drive is a bare, rectangular circuit board. (Most &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_203 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;203\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;203\\&quot;&gt;mSATA&lt;\\\/g&gt; drives relevant to upgraders measure about 1x2 inches.) mSATA drives fit into a special slot in a laptop's logic board or on a PC motherboard. As the name suggests, the slot is a conduit to the Serial ATA bus in the system. The interface on the drive end is an edge connector on the PCB, as opposed to the usual SATA cabling. The mSATA drive also draws all the power it needs through the slot.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;560954\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;By being reliant on SATA, mSATA drives gained all of the advantages and limitations of that interface, including the &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_206 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;206\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;206\\&quot;&gt;upper speed&lt;\\\/g&gt; limit of SATA 3.0, the latest revision of Serial ATA. That's not a bad thing, mind you. mSATA was also unusual in that it piggybacked on an existing connector, known as Mini-PCI, often used for installing small onboard components such as compact Wi-Fi cards.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, mSATA drives still linger on the market, primarily because some laptop models adopted the form factor a few years back, and residual demand exists as capacity upgrades. But it's definitely a fading form factor, and mSATA saw little adoption on desktop systems.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Even in mSATA's heyday, though, a replacement was in the works. During development, it was known by the prosaic name NGFF, for \\&quot;Next-Generation Form Factor,\\&quot; which still lingers. As it took shape, though, it took on its current, final name: M.2. The drives would be smaller, potentially more capacious, and, most important, not necessarily reliant on SATA.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;M.2: The Form Factor vs. the Bus&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;M.2 drives are as utilitarian as upgrades come: They look like sticks of gum studded with NAND modules and a controller chip. (\\&quot;NAND\\&quot; is the generic term for the flash-memory chips that make up the actual storage on the SSD; the term refers, technically, to the type of logic gates used in the underlying memory structure. See our primer &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/news\\\/buying-a-solid-state-drive-20-terms-you-need-to-know\\&quot;&gt;Buying an SSD: 20 Terms You Need to Know&lt;\\\/a&gt; for more SSD lingo explained.)&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;635962\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/span&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The key thing to remember about M.2 is that it is a form factor, a shape. The bus\u2014the data pathway over which the data travels to and from an M.2 drive\u2014is distinct from M.2 itself and can vary. And it can make all the difference.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;But first, the shape issue. Any M.2 drive you are looking at will be labeled with a four- or five-digit number as part of its specifications or model name. It's a measurement, in millimeters: The first two numbers define the drive's width, the second two the length.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The market has settled on 22mm wide as the standard for desktop and laptop implementations; the aftermarket drives available and the accessible slots we've seen have all been that width. The most common lengths we've seen are 80mm (\\&quot;M.2-2280\\&quot;) and 60mm (\\&quot;M.2-2260\\&quot;). The lengthier the drive, the more NAND chips you can tend to stuff on it (plus, M.2 drives can be single- or double-sided), though know that length isn't an absolute measure of capacity.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;560956\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, why does length matter? Fit, especially in the case of laptops. Most desktop motherboards with M.2 slots have screw-mounting points for several lengths of &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_194 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;194\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;194\\&quot;&gt;M.2&lt;\\\/g&gt; drive (usually, 80mm, 60mm, and 42mm), so length hasn't been an issue there. But it's a different matter in a laptop with a user-accessible M.2 slot. The bay may be space-limited to M.2 drives of a certain size. You'll want to check the space available before you shop.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;As we mentioned, M.2 drive length isn't always an indicator of drive capacity, but there &lt;em&gt;are&lt;\\\/em&gt; limits to NAND-chip density and how many memory modules engineers can stuff onto a PCB of a given size. As a result, most of the M.2 drives we've seen to date have topped out at 2TB. The typical capacity waypoints are 120GB or 128GB; 240GB, 250GB, or 256GB; 480GB, 500GB, or 512GB; 960GB or 1TB; and 2TB. (Smaller-capacity 32GB and 64GB M.2 SSDs are also available for use in embedded applications or for SSD caching, but these will be of only marginal interest to upgraders or PC builders.) Pricing on these drives ranges anywhere from 10 to 75 cents per gigabyte, and the biggest factor affecting price is the bus type of the drive.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, to reiterate an important point: A drive may come in the M.2 form factor, but that says nothing about the bus that it makes use of. Determining that is just as important as making sure it fits.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;The Bus-Interface Issue&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;This is the trickiest part of an M.2 upgrade. Most of the early M.2 drives were really just ordinary SATA drives stripped down to their fundamentals: a bare circuit board with a different physical &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_212 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;212\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;212\\&quot;&gt;connector,&lt;\\\/g&gt; but at heart the same drives as their 2.5-inch bigger brothers. Some of them still are. You won't see &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_211 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;211\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;211\\&quot;&gt;substantially&lt;\\\/g&gt; better performance with these M.2 SATA drives versus their 2.5-inch SATA equivalents, because ultimately your data is traveling along the exact same inner pathways inside the computer once it leaves the drive.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;That's not a bad thing. Especially in the case of laptops, a machine might support &lt;em&gt;only&lt;\\\/em&gt; M.2 SATA-bus SSDs, and that will be the boundary of your upgrade path...end of story. As a result, the only reason you'd upgrade the drive, in that situation, would be to get more capacity.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;More and more nowadays, though, lean, premium laptops can make use of PCI Express-bus M.2 SSDs. (Most new desktop motherboards with M.2 slots also support PCI Express M.2 SSDs.) With these, you may see a substantive increase in performance in benchmark testing, but in most real-world usage, they'll just feel like a fast, premium SATA SSD.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;637996\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The earliest versions of these M.2 PCI Express SSDs made use of the PCI Express Gen 2.0 x2 interface, which defines a throughput ceiling that's higher than SATA 3.0's, but not enormously so. That's changed. Most new, high-end M.2 drives, nowadays, support what's called PCI Express Gen 3.0 x4, paired with a technology called Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) to propel performance even further, especially with heavy, deeply queued workloads.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Beyond that is PCI Express 4.0. At this writing, we'd just gotten in the first PCI Express 4.0-compatible drives for testing, with read and write speeds rated as high as 5,000MBps. These drives are likely a peek at the future, but for the moment PCI Express 4.0 is supported only on desktop systems employing the AMD X570 (mainstream Ryzen) and AMD TRX40 (Ryzen Threadripper) chipsets.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Meet NVMe: The Speed Booster&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;NVMe is another technical &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_199 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;199\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;199\\&quot;&gt;hurdle,&lt;\\\/g&gt; because systems and motherboards need board-level support for these drives to be bootable. Most late-model motherboards now support PCI Express 3.0 x4 NVMe M.2 drives, but older boards are not guaranteed to support booting from an NVMe-based drive. Outside of new motherboards, these high-bandwidth, NVMe-capable connectors are only found in some recent laptops. Also note that in some cases, a laptop may support a PCI Express NVMe drive, but it may be soldered to the motherboard and thus not upgradable. So, if you're thinking of upgrading a recent laptop or convertible, be sure to consult your manual very closely before buying one of these drives.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;637989\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Among M.2 drives, PCI Express x4 M.2 drives that support NVMe are increasingly the norm among aftermarket purchases. We've tested a growing number, led by Samsung's field-leading and pioneering SSD Pro and SSD EVO families. Ever since those Samsung drives pioneered the way, though, we've also seen fine NVMe-capable models from ADATA, Plextor, WD, and many others.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;These are indeed impressively fast drives, leaving the fastest SATA-based drives well behind. But know that they are more relevant for PC builders or folks upgrading very recent systems rather than older PCs, which may not have an M.2 slot, or may have an M.2 slot but not one that supports PCI Express and\\\/or NVMe\u2014only SATA-based M.2. So, as we said in the previous paragraph, make sure that your system supports this kind of drive &lt;em&gt;before&lt;\\\/em&gt; picking one up. You don't want to bring home one of the fastest consumer drives available, only to find your system won't boot with it installed.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Basic Compatibility, Card-Based M.2, and Optane Memory&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Okay, back from Planet NVMe. Today, the real choice if you're M.2-shopping will be between basic SATA and PCI Express M.2 drives, and for most users, those options will be dictated simply by what your motherboard or laptop can accept. A careful browse of support forums or a call to the vendor's support line should unravel the M.2 bus-compatibility details. On the desktop side of the aisle, many recent M.2-equipped mobos support both kinds.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;If you're looking to upgrade a desktop but your PC's motherboard doesn't have an M.2 slot at all, one incidental option is what we call an \\&quot;M.2 drive on a card.\\&quot; We've seen solutions like this from storage stalwarts like Plextor and Kingston. Asus also offers an M.2 \\&quot;carrier card\\&quot; like these makers use. In essence, these products put your M.2 drive on a PCI Express expansion card and let you tap their speed through the PCI Express slots in a PC that lacks an M.2 slot. Some such cards support multiple M.2 drives, too. A few of the latest high-end AMD motherboards supporting PCI Express 4.0 even bundle such cards, supporting two or four M.2 drives, to supplement onboard M.2 slots.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;610249\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;We actually like these because often, you get a heat sink on the M.2 drive. Some PCI Express-bus M.2 SSDs can run hot under sustained read\\\/write tasks and throttle their speed. That said, unless you're running a server or something similar, where a drive is constantly getting hammered, that's usually not something you have to worry about. That's because many of these drives are so fast, they get their transfer duties done before they have a chance to get all that hot.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;One last caveat to drop in before we get to our product recommendations surrounds Intel's SSD line. Intel sells a family of M.2-based storage products under the brand name Optane. Know that there are two very distinct types of drives here, which may look identical. Intel's &lt;em&gt;Optane SSDs&lt;\\\/em&gt; are SSDs like any other, bootable drives that can serve as a stand-alone boot drive or as secondary storage.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Intel's &lt;em&gt;Optane Memory&lt;\\\/em&gt;, however, is a different animal. This is an M.2-format module that &lt;em&gt;looks&lt;\\\/em&gt; like an SSD, but serves as an accelerating cache for another drive, usually a hard drive. Again, these are not the same thing; if you're buying an Optane drive, make sure you know what you are buying. You can read a lot more about &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/review\\\/360897\\\/intel-optane-memory-32gb\\&quot;&gt;Optane Memory in our deep-dive review&lt;\\\/a&gt; of the first generation.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;573142\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;M.2 Upgrades and Boot Drives: What to Look For&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the cutting edge! You're shopping for a kind of drive that most folks don't even realize exists. As a result, you need to pay attention to several factors that may not be documented very well while you shop. Let's recap.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check the physical size.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; Make sure the width and especially the length (expressed in millimeters) will work in the space available for the drive. (This is mainly an issue with laptops.) Most will be 22mm wide, but the length varies: 42mm, 60mm, 80mm, 110mm are the most common sizes.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;632941\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Know which bus you're on.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; In a laptop-upgrade scenario, you're almost certainly swapping out one M.2 drive for another, with the intent of gaining capacity. Make sure you know the specifications of the drive coming out of your system\u2014and whether it's reliant on the SATA or PCI Express bus\u2014so you can install the same, presumably roomier kind going in.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;For a desktop, it's a bit trickier. Some motherboard M.2 slots support either SATA-bus or PCI Express-bus M.2 drives on the same slot. Others support only SATA M.2 drives, &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_221 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;221\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;221\\&quot;&gt;still&lt;\\\/g&gt; others support only PCI Express M.2 drives. (And, in the case of PCI Express M.2, not all motherboards support PCIe x4 or NVMe!) You need to know what your board is optimized to use and buy accordingly. All else being equal, PCI Express should give you a speed boost over a SATA model, but for everyday tasks, a SATA SSD will serve just as well, and be indistinguishable in most cases from a PCI Express one.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Also, with the very latest drives, look for PCI Express 4.0 support. You'll want to have a compliant late-model AMD motherboard if you buy one of those.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check for bootability.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; If you're installing an M.2 in a desktop board for the first time, verify with the board maker that an M.2 SSD of the bus type you are considering will be bootable. Though unlikely, a BIOS upgrade may be necessary.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Compare the cost per gig.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; Cost per gigabyte is the main yardstick whereby you can price-compare similar M.2 drives from different makers. Expect to pay more for PCI Express bus models, all else being equal, but the cost differences are narrowing. Divide the price (in dollars) by the capacity of the drive (in gigabytes) to get the cost per gig. For example, a 500GB drive that's selling for $99 works out to about 20 cents per gigabyte. Use this as a &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_224 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling\\&quot; id=\\&quot;224\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;224\\&quot;&gt;value&lt;\\\/g&gt; yardstick.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Ready for Our Recommendations?&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Below are the top M.2 solid-state drives that we've reviewed. You can also check out our roundups of the &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-internal-ssds\\&quot;&gt;best external SSDs&lt;\\\/a&gt;, as well as the &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/roundup\\\/294184\\\/the-best-external-hard-drives-for-mac\\&quot;&gt;best external hard drives for Mac&lt;\\\/a&gt;, and the overall &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-external-hard-drives\\&quot;&gt;best external hard drives&lt;\\\/a&gt;.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffroundupbottom title=\\&quot;Best M.2 Solid-State Drives Featured in This Roundup:\\&quot; 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articleids=\\&quot;367479,363077,368665,358846,368565,362944,366044,368796,367506,368206\\&quot; attributeids=\\&quot;2899,634,31,637\\&quot; unlinktitle=\\&quot;true\\&quot; hideprice=\\&quot;true\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Finding the Best M.2 SSD Drive&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Under the hoods of the newest, skinniest &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-laptops\\&quot;&gt;laptops&lt;\\\/a&gt; (and in the hollows of the latest desktop-PC motherboards), solid-state storage is undergoing a transformation. Even if you're a close observer of all things tech, it's understandable if you didn't even realize it was happening.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;That's because the whole idea is to make the storage hardware itself close to invisible. Solid-state drives (SSDs) are migrating from the slab-like shapes of familiar hard drives into little sticks of memory that offer much the same capacities. And, in some cases, they're picking up speed along the way.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The traditional SSD that you buy and install in a &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-desktop-computers\\&quot;&gt;desktop PC&lt;\\\/a&gt;, or in place of a hard drive in a laptop, uses what's known as the \\&quot;2.5-inch drive\\&quot; form factor. (In actuality, the drives are about 2.75 inches wide.) These SSDs have the same dimensions that laptop-style hard drives do. SSD makers adopted this standard size to make SSDs compatible with existing laptop designs. (They could configure laptops with the choice of a hard drive or an SSD without any retooling.) Desktop PCs, meanwhile, could accommodate SSDs of this size with little fuss. You could mount them in a 3.5-inch drive bay using a simple bracket. Over time, too, desktop PC chassis have evolved to gain their own bays and mounting points for 2.5-inch drives.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;div&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;\\\/div&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;However, from an engineering point of view, SSDs didn't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;\\\/em&gt; to be that big.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The enclosure an SSD comes in has a lot of dead space inside. It's designed in that 2.5-inch size and shape to make the drive fit into those existing bays. So when mobile-device designers, challenged with slimming down laptops and tablets, reassessed this issue, the consensus was clear: The bulky 2.5-inch form factor, eventually, would have to go.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;At the core, an SSD is just a thin circuit board studded with flash-memory and controller chips. Why not design around that&lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_184 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Style replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;184\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;184\\&quot;&gt;?&lt;\\\/g&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe width=\\&quot;300\\&quot; height=\\&quot;150\\&quot; style=\\&quot;width: 100%; height: 100%;\\&quot; allowfullscreen=\\&quot;allowfullscreen\\&quot; frameborder=\\&quot;0\\&quot; src=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/mashable.com\\\/videos\\\/blueprint:Qml4bbOV0q\\\/embed\\\/?player=pcmag&amp;autoplay=true&amp;mute=true\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/iframe&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;&lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_184 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Style replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;184\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;184\\&quot;&gt;In&lt;\\\/g&gt; the Beginning, There Was mSATA...&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The first attempt was a new form factor called mini-SATA, or mSATA. The boiled-down essence of an SSD with the shell removed, &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_205 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;205\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;205\\&quot;&gt;an mSATA&lt;\\\/g&gt; drive is a bare, rectangular circuit board. (Most &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_203 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;203\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;203\\&quot;&gt;mSATA&lt;\\\/g&gt; drives relevant to upgraders measure about 1x2 inches.) mSATA drives fit into a special slot in a laptop's logic board or on a PC motherboard. As the name suggests, the slot is a conduit to the Serial ATA bus in the system. The interface on the drive end is an edge connector on the PCB, as opposed to the usual SATA cabling. The mSATA drive also draws all the power it needs through the slot.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;560954\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;By being reliant on SATA, mSATA drives gained all of the advantages and limitations of that interface, including the &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_206 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;206\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;206\\&quot;&gt;upper speed&lt;\\\/g&gt; limit of SATA 3.0, the latest revision of Serial ATA. That's not a bad thing, mind you. mSATA was also unusual in that it piggybacked on an existing connector, known as Mini-PCI, often used for installing small onboard components such as compact Wi-Fi cards.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, mSATA drives still linger on the market, primarily because some laptop models adopted the form factor a few years back, and residual demand exists as capacity upgrades. But it's definitely a fading form factor, and mSATA saw little adoption on desktop systems.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Even in mSATA's heyday, though, a replacement was in the works. During development, it was known by the prosaic name NGFF, for \\&quot;Next-Generation Form Factor,\\&quot; which still lingers. As it took shape, though, it took on its current, final name: M.2. The drives would be smaller, potentially more capacious, and, most important, not necessarily reliant on SATA.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;M.2: The Form Factor vs. the Bus&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;M.2 drives are as utilitarian as upgrades come: They look like sticks of gum studded with NAND modules and a controller chip. (\\&quot;NAND\\&quot; is the generic term for the flash-memory chips that make up the actual storage on the SSD; the term refers, technically, to the type of logic gates used in the underlying memory structure. See our primer &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/news\\\/buying-a-solid-state-drive-20-terms-you-need-to-know\\&quot;&gt;Buying an SSD: 20 Terms You Need to Know&lt;\\\/a&gt; for more SSD lingo explained.)&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;635962\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/span&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The key thing to remember about M.2 is that it is a form factor, a shape. The bus\u2014the data pathway over which the data travels to and from an M.2 drive\u2014is distinct from M.2 itself and can vary. And it can make all the difference.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;But first, the shape issue. Any M.2 drive you are looking at will be labeled with a four- or five-digit number as part of its specifications or model name. It's a measurement, in millimeters: The first two numbers define the drive's width, the second two the length.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The market has settled on 22mm wide as the standard for desktop and laptop implementations; the aftermarket drives available and the accessible slots we've seen have all been that width. The most common lengths we've seen are 80mm (\\&quot;M.2-2280\\&quot;) and 60mm (\\&quot;M.2-2260\\&quot;). The lengthier the drive, the more NAND chips you can tend to stuff on it (plus, M.2 drives can be single- or double-sided), though know that length isn't an absolute measure of capacity.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;560956\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, why does length matter? Fit, especially in the case of laptops. Most desktop motherboards with M.2 slots have screw-mounting points for several lengths of &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_194 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;194\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;194\\&quot;&gt;M.2&lt;\\\/g&gt; drive (usually, 80mm, 60mm, and 42mm), so length hasn't been an issue there. But it's a different matter in a laptop with a user-accessible M.2 slot. The bay may be space-limited to M.2 drives of a certain size. You'll want to check the space available before you shop.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;As we mentioned, M.2 drive length isn't always an indicator of drive capacity, but there &lt;em&gt;are&lt;\\\/em&gt; limits to NAND-chip density and how many memory modules engineers can stuff onto a PCB of a given size. As a result, most of the M.2 drives we've seen to date have topped out at 2TB. The typical capacity waypoints are 120GB or 128GB; 240GB, 250GB, or 256GB; 480GB, 500GB, or 512GB; 960GB or 1TB; and 2TB. (Smaller-capacity 32GB and 64GB M.2 SSDs are also available for use in embedded applications or for SSD caching, but these will be of only marginal interest to upgraders or PC builders.) Pricing on these drives ranges anywhere from 10 to 75 cents per gigabyte, and the biggest factor affecting price is the bus type of the drive.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, to reiterate an important point: A drive may come in the M.2 form factor, but that says nothing about the bus that it makes use of. Determining that is just as important as making sure it fits.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;The Bus-Interface Issue&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;This is the trickiest part of an M.2 upgrade. Most of the early M.2 drives were really just ordinary SATA drives stripped down to their fundamentals: a bare circuit board with a different physical &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_212 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;212\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;212\\&quot;&gt;connector,&lt;\\\/g&gt; but at heart the same drives as their 2.5-inch bigger brothers. Some of them still are. You won't see &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_211 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;211\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;211\\&quot;&gt;substantially&lt;\\\/g&gt; better performance with these M.2 SATA drives versus their 2.5-inch SATA equivalents, because ultimately your data is traveling along the exact same inner pathways inside the computer once it leaves the drive.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;That's not a bad thing. Especially in the case of laptops, a machine might support &lt;em&gt;only&lt;\\\/em&gt; M.2 SATA-bus SSDs, and that will be the boundary of your upgrade path...end of story. As a result, the only reason you'd upgrade the drive, in that situation, would be to get more capacity.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;More and more nowadays, though, lean, premium laptops can make use of PCI Express-bus M.2 SSDs. (Most new desktop motherboards with M.2 slots also support PCI Express M.2 SSDs.) With these, you may see a substantive increase in performance in benchmark testing, but in most real-world usage, they'll just feel like a fast, premium SATA SSD.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;637996\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The earliest versions of these M.2 PCI Express SSDs made use of the PCI Express Gen 2.0 x2 interface, which defines a throughput ceiling that's higher than SATA 3.0's, but not enormously so. That's changed. Most new, high-end M.2 drives, nowadays, support what's called PCI Express Gen 3.0 x4, paired with a technology called Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) to propel performance even further, especially with heavy, deeply queued workloads.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Beyond that is PCI Express 4.0. At this writing, we'd just gotten in the first PCI Express 4.0-compatible drives for testing, with read and write speeds rated as high as 5,000MBps. These drives are likely a peek at the future, but for the moment PCI Express 4.0 is supported only on desktop systems employing the AMD X570 (mainstream Ryzen) and AMD TRX40 (Ryzen Threadripper) chipsets.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Meet NVMe: The Speed Booster&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;NVMe is another technical &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_199 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;199\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;199\\&quot;&gt;hurdle,&lt;\\\/g&gt; because systems and motherboards need board-level support for these drives to be bootable. Most late-model motherboards now support PCI Express 3.0 x4 NVMe M.2 drives, but older boards are not guaranteed to support booting from an NVMe-based drive. Outside of new motherboards, these high-bandwidth, NVMe-capable connectors are only found in some recent laptops. Also note that in some cases, a laptop may support a PCI Express NVMe drive, but it may be soldered to the motherboard and thus not upgradable. So, if you're thinking of upgrading a recent laptop or convertible, be sure to consult your manual very closely before buying one of these drives.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;637989\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Among M.2 drives, PCI Express x4 M.2 drives that support NVMe are increasingly the norm among aftermarket purchases. We've tested a growing number, led by Samsung's field-leading and pioneering SSD Pro and SSD EVO families. Ever since those Samsung drives pioneered the way, though, we've also seen fine NVMe-capable models from ADATA, Plextor, WD, and many others.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;These are indeed impressively fast drives, leaving the fastest SATA-based drives well behind. But know that they are more relevant for PC builders or folks upgrading very recent systems rather than older PCs, which may not have an M.2 slot, or may have an M.2 slot but not one that supports PCI Express and\\\/or NVMe\u2014only SATA-based M.2. So, as we said in the previous paragraph, make sure that your system supports this kind of drive &lt;em&gt;before&lt;\\\/em&gt; picking one up. You don't want to bring home one of the fastest consumer drives available, only to find your system won't boot with it installed.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Basic Compatibility, Card-Based M.2, and Optane Memory&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Okay, back from Planet NVMe. Today, the real choice if you're M.2-shopping will be between basic SATA and PCI Express M.2 drives, and for most users, those options will be dictated simply by what your motherboard or laptop can accept. A careful browse of support forums or a call to the vendor's support line should unravel the M.2 bus-compatibility details. On the desktop side of the aisle, many recent M.2-equipped mobos support both kinds.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;If you're looking to upgrade a desktop but your PC's motherboard doesn't have an M.2 slot at all, one incidental option is what we call an \\&quot;M.2 drive on a card.\\&quot; We've seen solutions like this from storage stalwarts like Plextor and Kingston. Asus also offers an M.2 \\&quot;carrier card\\&quot; like these makers use. In essence, these products put your M.2 drive on a PCI Express expansion card and let you tap their speed through the PCI Express slots in a PC that lacks an M.2 slot. Some such cards support multiple M.2 drives, too. A few of the latest high-end AMD motherboards supporting PCI Express 4.0 even bundle such cards, supporting two or four M.2 drives, to supplement onboard M.2 slots.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;610249\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;We actually like these because often, you get a heat sink on the M.2 drive. Some PCI Express-bus M.2 SSDs can run hot under sustained read\\\/write tasks and throttle their speed. That said, unless you're running a server or something similar, where a drive is constantly getting hammered, that's usually not something you have to worry about. That's because many of these drives are so fast, they get their transfer duties done before they have a chance to get all that hot.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;One last caveat to drop in before we get to our product recommendations surrounds Intel's SSD line. Intel sells a family of M.2-based storage products under the brand name Optane. Know that there are two very distinct types of drives here, which may look identical. Intel's &lt;em&gt;Optane SSDs&lt;\\\/em&gt; are SSDs like any other, bootable drives that can serve as a stand-alone boot drive or as secondary storage.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Intel's &lt;em&gt;Optane Memory&lt;\\\/em&gt;, however, is a different animal. This is an M.2-format module that &lt;em&gt;looks&lt;\\\/em&gt; like an SSD, but serves as an accelerating cache for another drive, usually a hard drive. Again, these are not the same thing; if you're buying an Optane drive, make sure you know what you are buying. You can read a lot more about &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/review\\\/360897\\\/intel-optane-memory-32gb\\&quot;&gt;Optane Memory in our deep-dive review&lt;\\\/a&gt; of the first generation.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;573142\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;M.2 Upgrades and Boot Drives: What to Look For&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the cutting edge! You're shopping for a kind of drive that most folks don't even realize exists. As a result, you need to pay attention to several factors that may not be documented very well while you shop. Let's recap.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check the physical size.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; Make sure the width and especially the length (expressed in millimeters) will work in the space available for the drive. (This is mainly an issue with laptops.) Most will be 22mm wide, but the length varies: 42mm, 60mm, 80mm, 110mm are the most common sizes.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;632941\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Know which bus you're on.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; In a laptop-upgrade scenario, you're almost certainly swapping out one M.2 drive for another, with the intent of gaining capacity. Make sure you know the specifications of the drive coming out of your system\u2014and whether it's reliant on the SATA or PCI Express bus\u2014so you can install the same, presumably roomier kind going in.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;For a desktop, it's a bit trickier. Some motherboard M.2 slots support either SATA-bus or PCI Express-bus M.2 drives on the same slot. Others support only SATA M.2 drives, &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_221 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;221\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;221\\&quot;&gt;still&lt;\\\/g&gt; others support only PCI Express M.2 drives. (And, in the case of PCI Express M.2, not all motherboards support PCIe x4 or NVMe!) You need to know what your board is optimized to use and buy accordingly. All else being equal, PCI Express should give you a speed boost over a SATA model, but for everyday tasks, a SATA SSD will serve just as well, and be indistinguishable in most cases from a PCI Express one.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Also, with the very latest drives, look for PCI Express 4.0 support. You'll want to have a compliant late-model AMD motherboard if you buy one of those.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check for bootability.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; If you're installing an M.2 in a desktop board for the first time, verify with the board maker that an M.2 SSD of the bus type you are considering will be bootable. Though unlikely, a BIOS upgrade may be necessary.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Compare the cost per gig.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; Cost per gigabyte is the main yardstick whereby you can price-compare similar M.2 drives from different makers. Expect to pay more for PCI Express bus models, all else being equal, but the cost differences are narrowing. Divide the price (in dollars) by the capacity of the drive (in gigabytes) to get the cost per gig. For example, a 500GB drive that's selling for $99 works out to about 20 cents per gigabyte. Use this as a &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_224 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling\\&quot; id=\\&quot;224\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;224\\&quot;&gt;value&lt;\\\/g&gt; yardstick.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Ready for Our Recommendations?&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Below are the top M.2 solid-state drives that we've reviewed. You can also check out our roundups of the &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-internal-ssds\\&quot;&gt;best external SSDs&lt;\\\/a&gt;, as well as the &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/roundup\\\/294184\\\/the-best-external-hard-drives-for-mac\\&quot;&gt;best external hard drives for Mac&lt;\\\/a&gt;, and the overall &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-external-hard-drives\\&quot;&gt;best external hard drives&lt;\\\/a&gt;.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffroundupbottom title=\\&quot;Best M.2 Solid-State Drives Featured in This Roundup:\\&quot; 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articleids=\\&quot;367479,363077,368665,358846,368565,362944,366044,368796,367506,368206\\&quot; attributeids=\\&quot;2899,634,31,637\\&quot; unlinktitle=\\&quot;true\\&quot; hideprice=\\&quot;true\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Finding the Best M.2 SSD Drive&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Under the hoods of the newest, skinniest &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-laptops\\&quot;&gt;laptops&lt;\\\/a&gt; (and in the hollows of the latest desktop-PC motherboards), solid-state storage is undergoing a transformation. Even if you're a close observer of all things tech, it's understandable if you didn't even realize it was happening.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;That's because the whole idea is to make the storage hardware itself close to invisible. Solid-state drives (SSDs) are migrating from the slab-like shapes of familiar hard drives into little sticks of memory that offer much the same capacities. And, in some cases, they're picking up speed along the way.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The traditional SSD that you buy and install in a &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-desktop-computers\\&quot;&gt;desktop PC&lt;\\\/a&gt;, or in place of a hard drive in a laptop, uses what's known as the \\&quot;2.5-inch drive\\&quot; form factor. (In actuality, the drives are about 2.75 inches wide.) These SSDs have the same dimensions that laptop-style hard drives do. SSD makers adopted this standard size to make SSDs compatible with existing laptop designs. (They could configure laptops with the choice of a hard drive or an SSD without any retooling.) Desktop PCs, meanwhile, could accommodate SSDs of this size with little fuss. You could mount them in a 3.5-inch drive bay using a simple bracket. Over time, too, desktop PC chassis have evolved to gain their own bays and mounting points for 2.5-inch drives.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;div&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;\\\/div&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;However, from an engineering point of view, SSDs didn't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;\\\/em&gt; to be that big.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The enclosure an SSD comes in has a lot of dead space inside. It's designed in that 2.5-inch size and shape to make the drive fit into those existing bays. So when mobile-device designers, challenged with slimming down laptops and tablets, reassessed this issue, the consensus was clear: The bulky 2.5-inch form factor, eventually, would have to go.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;At the core, an SSD is just a thin circuit board studded with flash-memory and controller chips. Why not design around that&lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_184 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Style replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;184\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;184\\&quot;&gt;?&lt;\\\/g&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe width=\\&quot;300\\&quot; height=\\&quot;150\\&quot; style=\\&quot;width: 100%; height: 100%;\\&quot; allowfullscreen=\\&quot;allowfullscreen\\&quot; frameborder=\\&quot;0\\&quot; src=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/mashable.com\\\/videos\\\/blueprint:Qml4bbOV0q\\\/embed\\\/?player=pcmag&amp;autoplay=true&amp;mute=true\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/iframe&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;&lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_184 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Style replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;184\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;184\\&quot;&gt;In&lt;\\\/g&gt; the Beginning, There Was mSATA...&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The first attempt was a new form factor called mini-SATA, or mSATA. The boiled-down essence of an SSD with the shell removed, &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_205 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;205\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;205\\&quot;&gt;an mSATA&lt;\\\/g&gt; drive is a bare, rectangular circuit board. (Most &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_203 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;203\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;203\\&quot;&gt;mSATA&lt;\\\/g&gt; drives relevant to upgraders measure about 1x2 inches.) mSATA drives fit into a special slot in a laptop's logic board or on a PC motherboard. As the name suggests, the slot is a conduit to the Serial ATA bus in the system. The interface on the drive end is an edge connector on the PCB, as opposed to the usual SATA cabling. The mSATA drive also draws all the power it needs through the slot.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;560954\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;By being reliant on SATA, mSATA drives gained all of the advantages and limitations of that interface, including the &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_206 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;206\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;206\\&quot;&gt;upper speed&lt;\\\/g&gt; limit of SATA 3.0, the latest revision of Serial ATA. That's not a bad thing, mind you. mSATA was also unusual in that it piggybacked on an existing connector, known as Mini-PCI, often used for installing small onboard components such as compact Wi-Fi cards.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, mSATA drives still linger on the market, primarily because some laptop models adopted the form factor a few years back, and residual demand exists as capacity upgrades. But it's definitely a fading form factor, and mSATA saw little adoption on desktop systems.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Even in mSATA's heyday, though, a replacement was in the works. During development, it was known by the prosaic name NGFF, for \\&quot;Next-Generation Form Factor,\\&quot; which still lingers. As it took shape, though, it took on its current, final name: M.2. The drives would be smaller, potentially more capacious, and, most important, not necessarily reliant on SATA.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;M.2: The Form Factor vs. the Bus&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;M.2 drives are as utilitarian as upgrades come: They look like sticks of gum studded with NAND modules and a controller chip. (\\&quot;NAND\\&quot; is the generic term for the flash-memory chips that make up the actual storage on the SSD; the term refers, technically, to the type of logic gates used in the underlying memory structure. See our primer &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/news\\\/buying-a-solid-state-drive-20-terms-you-need-to-know\\&quot;&gt;Buying an SSD: 20 Terms You Need to Know&lt;\\\/a&gt; for more SSD lingo explained.)&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;635962\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/span&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The key thing to remember about M.2 is that it is a form factor, a shape. The bus\u2014the data pathway over which the data travels to and from an M.2 drive\u2014is distinct from M.2 itself and can vary. And it can make all the difference.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;But first, the shape issue. Any M.2 drive you are looking at will be labeled with a four- or five-digit number as part of its specifications or model name. It's a measurement, in millimeters: The first two numbers define the drive's width, the second two the length.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The market has settled on 22mm wide as the standard for desktop and laptop implementations; the aftermarket drives available and the accessible slots we've seen have all been that width. The most common lengths we've seen are 80mm (\\&quot;M.2-2280\\&quot;) and 60mm (\\&quot;M.2-2260\\&quot;). The lengthier the drive, the more NAND chips you can tend to stuff on it (plus, M.2 drives can be single- or double-sided), though know that length isn't an absolute measure of capacity.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;560956\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, why does length matter? Fit, especially in the case of laptops. Most desktop motherboards with M.2 slots have screw-mounting points for several lengths of &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_194 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;194\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;194\\&quot;&gt;M.2&lt;\\\/g&gt; drive (usually, 80mm, 60mm, and 42mm), so length hasn't been an issue there. But it's a different matter in a laptop with a user-accessible M.2 slot. The bay may be space-limited to M.2 drives of a certain size. You'll want to check the space available before you shop.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;As we mentioned, M.2 drive length isn't always an indicator of drive capacity, but there &lt;em&gt;are&lt;\\\/em&gt; limits to NAND-chip density and how many memory modules engineers can stuff onto a PCB of a given size. As a result, most of the M.2 drives we've seen to date have topped out at 2TB. The typical capacity waypoints are 120GB or 128GB; 240GB, 250GB, or 256GB; 480GB, 500GB, or 512GB; 960GB or 1TB; and 2TB. (Smaller-capacity 32GB and 64GB M.2 SSDs are also available for use in embedded applications or for SSD caching, but these will be of only marginal interest to upgraders or PC builders.) Pricing on these drives ranges anywhere from 10 to 75 cents per gigabyte, and the biggest factor affecting price is the bus type of the drive.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, to reiterate an important point: A drive may come in the M.2 form factor, but that says nothing about the bus that it makes use of. Determining that is just as important as making sure it fits.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;The Bus-Interface Issue&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;This is the trickiest part of an M.2 upgrade. Most of the early M.2 drives were really just ordinary SATA drives stripped down to their fundamentals: a bare circuit board with a different physical &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_212 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;212\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;212\\&quot;&gt;connector,&lt;\\\/g&gt; but at heart the same drives as their 2.5-inch bigger brothers. Some of them still are. You won't see &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_211 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;211\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;211\\&quot;&gt;substantially&lt;\\\/g&gt; better performance with these M.2 SATA drives versus their 2.5-inch SATA equivalents, because ultimately your data is traveling along the exact same inner pathways inside the computer once it leaves the drive.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;That's not a bad thing. Especially in the case of laptops, a machine might support &lt;em&gt;only&lt;\\\/em&gt; M.2 SATA-bus SSDs, and that will be the boundary of your upgrade path...end of story. As a result, the only reason you'd upgrade the drive, in that situation, would be to get more capacity.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;More and more nowadays, though, lean, premium laptops can make use of PCI Express-bus M.2 SSDs. (Most new desktop motherboards with M.2 slots also support PCI Express M.2 SSDs.) With these, you may see a substantive increase in performance in benchmark testing, but in most real-world usage, they'll just feel like a fast, premium SATA SSD.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;637996\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The earliest versions of these M.2 PCI Express SSDs made use of the PCI Express Gen 2.0 x2 interface, which defines a throughput ceiling that's higher than SATA 3.0's, but not enormously so. That's changed. Most new, high-end M.2 drives, nowadays, support what's called PCI Express Gen 3.0 x4, paired with a technology called Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) to propel performance even further, especially with heavy, deeply queued workloads.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Beyond that is PCI Express 4.0. At this writing, we'd just gotten in the first PCI Express 4.0-compatible drives for testing, with read and write speeds rated as high as 5,000MBps. These drives are likely a peek at the future, but for the moment PCI Express 4.0 is supported only on desktop systems employing the AMD X570 (mainstream Ryzen) and AMD TRX40 (Ryzen Threadripper) chipsets.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Meet NVMe: The Speed Booster&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;NVMe is another technical &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_199 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;199\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;199\\&quot;&gt;hurdle,&lt;\\\/g&gt; because systems and motherboards need board-level support for these drives to be bootable. Most late-model motherboards now support PCI Express 3.0 x4 NVMe M.2 drives, but older boards are not guaranteed to support booting from an NVMe-based drive. Outside of new motherboards, these high-bandwidth, NVMe-capable connectors are only found in some recent laptops. Also note that in some cases, a laptop may support a PCI Express NVMe drive, but it may be soldered to the motherboard and thus not upgradable. So, if you're thinking of upgrading a recent laptop or convertible, be sure to consult your manual very closely before buying one of these drives.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;637989\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Among M.2 drives, PCI Express x4 M.2 drives that support NVMe are increasingly the norm among aftermarket purchases. We've tested a growing number, led by Samsung's field-leading and pioneering SSD Pro and SSD EVO families. Ever since those Samsung drives pioneered the way, though, we've also seen fine NVMe-capable models from ADATA, Plextor, WD, and many others.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;These are indeed impressively fast drives, leaving the fastest SATA-based drives well behind. But know that they are more relevant for PC builders or folks upgrading very recent systems rather than older PCs, which may not have an M.2 slot, or may have an M.2 slot but not one that supports PCI Express and\\\/or NVMe\u2014only SATA-based M.2. So, as we said in the previous paragraph, make sure that your system supports this kind of drive &lt;em&gt;before&lt;\\\/em&gt; picking one up. You don't want to bring home one of the fastest consumer drives available, only to find your system won't boot with it installed.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Basic Compatibility, Card-Based M.2, and Optane Memory&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Okay, back from Planet NVMe. Today, the real choice if you're M.2-shopping will be between basic SATA and PCI Express M.2 drives, and for most users, those options will be dictated simply by what your motherboard or laptop can accept. A careful browse of support forums or a call to the vendor's support line should unravel the M.2 bus-compatibility details. On the desktop side of the aisle, many recent M.2-equipped mobos support both kinds.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;If you're looking to upgrade a desktop but your PC's motherboard doesn't have an M.2 slot at all, one incidental option is what we call an \\&quot;M.2 drive on a card.\\&quot; We've seen solutions like this from storage stalwarts like Plextor and Kingston. Asus also offers an M.2 \\&quot;carrier card\\&quot; like these makers use. In essence, these products put your M.2 drive on a PCI Express expansion card and let you tap their speed through the PCI Express slots in a PC that lacks an M.2 slot. Some such cards support multiple M.2 drives, too. A few of the latest high-end AMD motherboards supporting PCI Express 4.0 even bundle such cards, supporting two or four M.2 drives, to supplement onboard M.2 slots.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;610249\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;We actually like these because often, you get a heat sink on the M.2 drive. Some PCI Express-bus M.2 SSDs can run hot under sustained read\\\/write tasks and throttle their speed. That said, unless you're running a server or something similar, where a drive is constantly getting hammered, that's usually not something you have to worry about. That's because many of these drives are so fast, they get their transfer duties done before they have a chance to get all that hot.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;One last caveat to drop in before we get to our product recommendations surrounds Intel's SSD line. Intel sells a family of M.2-based storage products under the brand name Optane. Know that there are two very distinct types of drives here, which may look identical. Intel's &lt;em&gt;Optane SSDs&lt;\\\/em&gt; are SSDs like any other, bootable drives that can serve as a stand-alone boot drive or as secondary storage.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Intel's &lt;em&gt;Optane Memory&lt;\\\/em&gt;, however, is a different animal. This is an M.2-format module that &lt;em&gt;looks&lt;\\\/em&gt; like an SSD, but serves as an accelerating cache for another drive, usually a hard drive. Again, these are not the same thing; if you're buying an Optane drive, make sure you know what you are buying. You can read a lot more about &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/review\\\/360897\\\/intel-optane-memory-32gb\\&quot;&gt;Optane Memory in our deep-dive review&lt;\\\/a&gt; of the first generation.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;573142\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;M.2 Upgrades and Boot Drives: What to Look For&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the cutting edge! You're shopping for a kind of drive that most folks don't even realize exists. As a result, you need to pay attention to several factors that may not be documented very well while you shop. Let's recap.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check the physical size.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; Make sure the width and especially the length (expressed in millimeters) will work in the space available for the drive. (This is mainly an issue with laptops.) Most will be 22mm wide, but the length varies: 42mm, 60mm, 80mm, 110mm are the most common sizes.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;632941\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Know which bus you're on.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; In a laptop-upgrade scenario, you're almost certainly swapping out one M.2 drive for another, with the intent of gaining capacity. Make sure you know the specifications of the drive coming out of your system\u2014and whether it's reliant on the SATA or PCI Express bus\u2014so you can install the same, presumably roomier kind going in.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;For a desktop, it's a bit trickier. Some motherboard M.2 slots support either SATA-bus or PCI Express-bus M.2 drives on the same slot. Others support only SATA M.2 drives, &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_221 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;221\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;221\\&quot;&gt;still&lt;\\\/g&gt; others support only PCI Express M.2 drives. (And, in the case of PCI Express M.2, not all motherboards support PCIe x4 or NVMe!) You need to know what your board is optimized to use and buy accordingly. All else being equal, PCI Express should give you a speed boost over a SATA model, but for everyday tasks, a SATA SSD will serve just as well, and be indistinguishable in most cases from a PCI Express one.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Also, with the very latest drives, look for PCI Express 4.0 support. You'll want to have a compliant late-model AMD motherboard if you buy one of those.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check for bootability.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; If you're installing an M.2 in a desktop board for the first time, verify with the board maker that an M.2 SSD of the bus type you are considering will be bootable. Though unlikely, a BIOS upgrade may be necessary.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Compare the cost per gig.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; Cost per gigabyte is the main yardstick whereby you can price-compare similar M.2 drives from different makers. Expect to pay more for PCI Express bus models, all else being equal, but the cost differences are narrowing. Divide the price (in dollars) by the capacity of the drive (in gigabytes) to get the cost per gig. For example, a 500GB drive that's selling for $99 works out to about 20 cents per gigabyte. Use this as a &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_224 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling\\&quot; id=\\&quot;224\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;224\\&quot;&gt;value&lt;\\\/g&gt; yardstick.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Ready for Our Recommendations?&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Below are the top M.2 solid-state drives that we've reviewed. You can also check out our roundups of the &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-internal-ssds\\&quot;&gt;best external SSDs&lt;\\\/a&gt;, as well as the &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/roundup\\\/294184\\\/the-best-external-hard-drives-for-mac\\&quot;&gt;best external hard drives for Mac&lt;\\\/a&gt;, and the overall &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-external-hard-drives\\&quot;&gt;best external hard drives&lt;\\\/a&gt;.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffroundupbottom title=\\&quot;Best M.2 Solid-State Drives Featured in This Roundup:\\&quot; 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articleids=\\&quot;367479,363077,368665,358846,368565,362944,366044,368796,367506,368206\\&quot; attributeids=\\&quot;2899,634,31,637\\&quot; unlinktitle=\\&quot;true\\&quot; hideprice=\\&quot;true\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Finding the Best M.2 SSD Drive&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Under the hoods of the newest, skinniest &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-laptops\\&quot;&gt;laptops&lt;\\\/a&gt; (and in the hollows of the latest desktop-PC motherboards), solid-state storage is undergoing a transformation. Even if you're a close observer of all things tech, it's understandable if you didn't even realize it was happening.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;That's because the whole idea is to make the storage hardware itself close to invisible. Solid-state drives (SSDs) are migrating from the slab-like shapes of familiar hard drives into little sticks of memory that offer much the same capacities. And, in some cases, they're picking up speed along the way.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The traditional SSD that you buy and install in a &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-desktop-computers\\&quot;&gt;desktop PC&lt;\\\/a&gt;, or in place of a hard drive in a laptop, uses what's known as the \\&quot;2.5-inch drive\\&quot; form factor. (In actuality, the drives are about 2.75 inches wide.) These SSDs have the same dimensions that laptop-style hard drives do. SSD makers adopted this standard size to make SSDs compatible with existing laptop designs. (They could configure laptops with the choice of a hard drive or an SSD without any retooling.) Desktop PCs, meanwhile, could accommodate SSDs of this size with little fuss. You could mount them in a 3.5-inch drive bay using a simple bracket. Over time, too, desktop PC chassis have evolved to gain their own bays and mounting points for 2.5-inch drives.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;div&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;\\\/div&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;However, from an engineering point of view, SSDs didn't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;\\\/em&gt; to be that big.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The enclosure an SSD comes in has a lot of dead space inside. It's designed in that 2.5-inch size and shape to make the drive fit into those existing bays. So when mobile-device designers, challenged with slimming down laptops and tablets, reassessed this issue, the consensus was clear: The bulky 2.5-inch form factor, eventually, would have to go.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;At the core, an SSD is just a thin circuit board studded with flash-memory and controller chips. Why not design around that&lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_184 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Style replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;184\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;184\\&quot;&gt;?&lt;\\\/g&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe width=\\&quot;300\\&quot; height=\\&quot;150\\&quot; style=\\&quot;width: 100%; height: 100%;\\&quot; allowfullscreen=\\&quot;allowfullscreen\\&quot; frameborder=\\&quot;0\\&quot; src=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/mashable.com\\\/videos\\\/blueprint:Qml4bbOV0q\\\/embed\\\/?player=pcmag&amp;autoplay=true&amp;mute=true\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/iframe&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;&lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_184 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Style replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;184\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;184\\&quot;&gt;In&lt;\\\/g&gt; the Beginning, There Was mSATA...&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The first attempt was a new form factor called mini-SATA, or mSATA. The boiled-down essence of an SSD with the shell removed, &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_205 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;205\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;205\\&quot;&gt;an mSATA&lt;\\\/g&gt; drive is a bare, rectangular circuit board. (Most &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_203 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;203\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;203\\&quot;&gt;mSATA&lt;\\\/g&gt; drives relevant to upgraders measure about 1x2 inches.) mSATA drives fit into a special slot in a laptop's logic board or on a PC motherboard. As the name suggests, the slot is a conduit to the Serial ATA bus in the system. The interface on the drive end is an edge connector on the PCB, as opposed to the usual SATA cabling. The mSATA drive also draws all the power it needs through the slot.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;560954\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;By being reliant on SATA, mSATA drives gained all of the advantages and limitations of that interface, including the &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_206 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;206\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;206\\&quot;&gt;upper speed&lt;\\\/g&gt; limit of SATA 3.0, the latest revision of Serial ATA. That's not a bad thing, mind you. mSATA was also unusual in that it piggybacked on an existing connector, known as Mini-PCI, often used for installing small onboard components such as compact Wi-Fi cards.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, mSATA drives still linger on the market, primarily because some laptop models adopted the form factor a few years back, and residual demand exists as capacity upgrades. But it's definitely a fading form factor, and mSATA saw little adoption on desktop systems.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Even in mSATA's heyday, though, a replacement was in the works. During development, it was known by the prosaic name NGFF, for \\&quot;Next-Generation Form Factor,\\&quot; which still lingers. As it took shape, though, it took on its current, final name: M.2. The drives would be smaller, potentially more capacious, and, most important, not necessarily reliant on SATA.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;M.2: The Form Factor vs. the Bus&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;M.2 drives are as utilitarian as upgrades come: They look like sticks of gum studded with NAND modules and a controller chip. (\\&quot;NAND\\&quot; is the generic term for the flash-memory chips that make up the actual storage on the SSD; the term refers, technically, to the type of logic gates used in the underlying memory structure. See our primer &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/news\\\/buying-a-solid-state-drive-20-terms-you-need-to-know\\&quot;&gt;Buying an SSD: 20 Terms You Need to Know&lt;\\\/a&gt; for more SSD lingo explained.)&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;635962\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/span&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The key thing to remember about M.2 is that it is a form factor, a shape. The bus\u2014the data pathway over which the data travels to and from an M.2 drive\u2014is distinct from M.2 itself and can vary. And it can make all the difference.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;But first, the shape issue. Any M.2 drive you are looking at will be labeled with a four- or five-digit number as part of its specifications or model name. It's a measurement, in millimeters: The first two numbers define the drive's width, the second two the length.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The market has settled on 22mm wide as the standard for desktop and laptop implementations; the aftermarket drives available and the accessible slots we've seen have all been that width. The most common lengths we've seen are 80mm (\\&quot;M.2-2280\\&quot;) and 60mm (\\&quot;M.2-2260\\&quot;). The lengthier the drive, the more NAND chips you can tend to stuff on it (plus, M.2 drives can be single- or double-sided), though know that length isn't an absolute measure of capacity.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;560956\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, why does length matter? Fit, especially in the case of laptops. Most desktop motherboards with M.2 slots have screw-mounting points for several lengths of &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_194 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;194\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;194\\&quot;&gt;M.2&lt;\\\/g&gt; drive (usually, 80mm, 60mm, and 42mm), so length hasn't been an issue there. But it's a different matter in a laptop with a user-accessible M.2 slot. The bay may be space-limited to M.2 drives of a certain size. You'll want to check the space available before you shop.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;As we mentioned, M.2 drive length isn't always an indicator of drive capacity, but there &lt;em&gt;are&lt;\\\/em&gt; limits to NAND-chip density and how many memory modules engineers can stuff onto a PCB of a given size. As a result, most of the M.2 drives we've seen to date have topped out at 2TB. The typical capacity waypoints are 120GB or 128GB; 240GB, 250GB, or 256GB; 480GB, 500GB, or 512GB; 960GB or 1TB; and 2TB. (Smaller-capacity 32GB and 64GB M.2 SSDs are also available for use in embedded applications or for SSD caching, but these will be of only marginal interest to upgraders or PC builders.) Pricing on these drives ranges anywhere from 10 to 75 cents per gigabyte, and the biggest factor affecting price is the bus type of the drive.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, to reiterate an important point: A drive may come in the M.2 form factor, but that says nothing about the bus that it makes use of. Determining that is just as important as making sure it fits.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;The Bus-Interface Issue&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;This is the trickiest part of an M.2 upgrade. Most of the early M.2 drives were really just ordinary SATA drives stripped down to their fundamentals: a bare circuit board with a different physical &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_212 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;212\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;212\\&quot;&gt;connector,&lt;\\\/g&gt; but at heart the same drives as their 2.5-inch bigger brothers. Some of them still are. You won't see &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_211 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;211\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;211\\&quot;&gt;substantially&lt;\\\/g&gt; better performance with these M.2 SATA drives versus their 2.5-inch SATA equivalents, because ultimately your data is traveling along the exact same inner pathways inside the computer once it leaves the drive.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;That's not a bad thing. Especially in the case of laptops, a machine might support &lt;em&gt;only&lt;\\\/em&gt; M.2 SATA-bus SSDs, and that will be the boundary of your upgrade path...end of story. As a result, the only reason you'd upgrade the drive, in that situation, would be to get more capacity.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;More and more nowadays, though, lean, premium laptops can make use of PCI Express-bus M.2 SSDs. (Most new desktop motherboards with M.2 slots also support PCI Express M.2 SSDs.) With these, you may see a substantive increase in performance in benchmark testing, but in most real-world usage, they'll just feel like a fast, premium SATA SSD.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;637996\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The earliest versions of these M.2 PCI Express SSDs made use of the PCI Express Gen 2.0 x2 interface, which defines a throughput ceiling that's higher than SATA 3.0's, but not enormously so. That's changed. Most new, high-end M.2 drives, nowadays, support what's called PCI Express Gen 3.0 x4, paired with a technology called Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) to propel performance even further, especially with heavy, deeply queued workloads.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Beyond that is PCI Express 4.0. At this writing, we'd just gotten in the first PCI Express 4.0-compatible drives for testing, with read and write speeds rated as high as 5,000MBps. These drives are likely a peek at the future, but for the moment PCI Express 4.0 is supported only on desktop systems employing the AMD X570 (mainstream Ryzen) and AMD TRX40 (Ryzen Threadripper) chipsets.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Meet NVMe: The Speed Booster&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;NVMe is another technical &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_199 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;199\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;199\\&quot;&gt;hurdle,&lt;\\\/g&gt; because systems and motherboards need board-level support for these drives to be bootable. Most late-model motherboards now support PCI Express 3.0 x4 NVMe M.2 drives, but older boards are not guaranteed to support booting from an NVMe-based drive. Outside of new motherboards, these high-bandwidth, NVMe-capable connectors are only found in some recent laptops. Also note that in some cases, a laptop may support a PCI Express NVMe drive, but it may be soldered to the motherboard and thus not upgradable. So, if you're thinking of upgrading a recent laptop or convertible, be sure to consult your manual very closely before buying one of these drives.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;637989\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Among M.2 drives, PCI Express x4 M.2 drives that support NVMe are increasingly the norm among aftermarket purchases. We've tested a growing number, led by Samsung's field-leading and pioneering SSD Pro and SSD EVO families. Ever since those Samsung drives pioneered the way, though, we've also seen fine NVMe-capable models from ADATA, Plextor, WD, and many others.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;These are indeed impressively fast drives, leaving the fastest SATA-based drives well behind. But know that they are more relevant for PC builders or folks upgrading very recent systems rather than older PCs, which may not have an M.2 slot, or may have an M.2 slot but not one that supports PCI Express and\\\/or NVMe\u2014only SATA-based M.2. So, as we said in the previous paragraph, make sure that your system supports this kind of drive &lt;em&gt;before&lt;\\\/em&gt; picking one up. You don't want to bring home one of the fastest consumer drives available, only to find your system won't boot with it installed.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Basic Compatibility, Card-Based M.2, and Optane Memory&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Okay, back from Planet NVMe. Today, the real choice if you're M.2-shopping will be between basic SATA and PCI Express M.2 drives, and for most users, those options will be dictated simply by what your motherboard or laptop can accept. A careful browse of support forums or a call to the vendor's support line should unravel the M.2 bus-compatibility details. On the desktop side of the aisle, many recent M.2-equipped mobos support both kinds.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;If you're looking to upgrade a desktop but your PC's motherboard doesn't have an M.2 slot at all, one incidental option is what we call an \\&quot;M.2 drive on a card.\\&quot; We've seen solutions like this from storage stalwarts like Plextor and Kingston. Asus also offers an M.2 \\&quot;carrier card\\&quot; like these makers use. In essence, these products put your M.2 drive on a PCI Express expansion card and let you tap their speed through the PCI Express slots in a PC that lacks an M.2 slot. Some such cards support multiple M.2 drives, too. A few of the latest high-end AMD motherboards supporting PCI Express 4.0 even bundle such cards, supporting two or four M.2 drives, to supplement onboard M.2 slots.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;610249\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;We actually like these because often, you get a heat sink on the M.2 drive. Some PCI Express-bus M.2 SSDs can run hot under sustained read\\\/write tasks and throttle their speed. That said, unless you're running a server or something similar, where a drive is constantly getting hammered, that's usually not something you have to worry about. That's because many of these drives are so fast, they get their transfer duties done before they have a chance to get all that hot.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;One last caveat to drop in before we get to our product recommendations surrounds Intel's SSD line. Intel sells a family of M.2-based storage products under the brand name Optane. Know that there are two very distinct types of drives here, which may look identical. Intel's &lt;em&gt;Optane SSDs&lt;\\\/em&gt; are SSDs like any other, bootable drives that can serve as a stand-alone boot drive or as secondary storage.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Intel's &lt;em&gt;Optane Memory&lt;\\\/em&gt;, however, is a different animal. This is an M.2-format module that &lt;em&gt;looks&lt;\\\/em&gt; like an SSD, but serves as an accelerating cache for another drive, usually a hard drive. Again, these are not the same thing; if you're buying an Optane drive, make sure you know what you are buying. You can read a lot more about &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/review\\\/360897\\\/intel-optane-memory-32gb\\&quot;&gt;Optane Memory in our deep-dive review&lt;\\\/a&gt; of the first generation.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;573142\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;M.2 Upgrades and Boot Drives: What to Look For&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the cutting edge! You're shopping for a kind of drive that most folks don't even realize exists. As a result, you need to pay attention to several factors that may not be documented very well while you shop. Let's recap.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check the physical size.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; Make sure the width and especially the length (expressed in millimeters) will work in the space available for the drive. (This is mainly an issue with laptops.) Most will be 22mm wide, but the length varies: 42mm, 60mm, 80mm, 110mm are the most common sizes.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;632941\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Know which bus you're on.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; In a laptop-upgrade scenario, you're almost certainly swapping out one M.2 drive for another, with the intent of gaining capacity. Make sure you know the specifications of the drive coming out of your system\u2014and whether it's reliant on the SATA or PCI Express bus\u2014so you can install the same, presumably roomier kind going in.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;For a desktop, it's a bit trickier. Some motherboard M.2 slots support either SATA-bus or PCI Express-bus M.2 drives on the same slot. Others support only SATA M.2 drives, &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_221 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;221\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;221\\&quot;&gt;still&lt;\\\/g&gt; others support only PCI Express M.2 drives. (And, in the case of PCI Express M.2, not all motherboards support PCIe x4 or NVMe!) You need to know what your board is optimized to use and buy accordingly. All else being equal, PCI Express should give you a speed boost over a SATA model, but for everyday tasks, a SATA SSD will serve just as well, and be indistinguishable in most cases from a PCI Express one.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Also, with the very latest drives, look for PCI Express 4.0 support. You'll want to have a compliant late-model AMD motherboard if you buy one of those.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check for bootability.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; If you're installing an M.2 in a desktop board for the first time, verify with the board maker that an M.2 SSD of the bus type you are considering will be bootable. Though unlikely, a BIOS upgrade may be necessary.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Compare the cost per gig.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; Cost per gigabyte is the main yardstick whereby you can price-compare similar M.2 drives from different makers. Expect to pay more for PCI Express bus models, all else being equal, but the cost differences are narrowing. Divide the price (in dollars) by the capacity of the drive (in gigabytes) to get the cost per gig. For example, a 500GB drive that's selling for $99 works out to about 20 cents per gigabyte. Use this as a &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_224 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling\\&quot; id=\\&quot;224\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;224\\&quot;&gt;value&lt;\\\/g&gt; yardstick.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Ready for Our Recommendations?&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Below are the top M.2 solid-state drives that we've reviewed. You can also check out our roundups of the &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-internal-ssds\\&quot;&gt;best external SSDs&lt;\\\/a&gt;, as well as the &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/roundup\\\/294184\\\/the-best-external-hard-drives-for-mac\\&quot;&gt;best external hard drives for Mac&lt;\\\/a&gt;, and the overall &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-external-hard-drives\\&quot;&gt;best external hard drives&lt;\\\/a&gt;.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffroundupbottom title=\\&quot;Best M.2 Solid-State Drives Featured in This Roundup:\\&quot; 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articleids=\\&quot;367479,363077,368665,358846,368565,362944,366044,368796,367506,368206\\&quot; attributeids=\\&quot;2899,634,31,637\\&quot; unlinktitle=\\&quot;true\\&quot; hideprice=\\&quot;true\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Finding the Best M.2 SSD Drive&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Under the hoods of the newest, skinniest &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-laptops\\&quot;&gt;laptops&lt;\\\/a&gt; (and in the hollows of the latest desktop-PC motherboards), solid-state storage is undergoing a transformation. Even if you're a close observer of all things tech, it's understandable if you didn't even realize it was happening.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;That's because the whole idea is to make the storage hardware itself close to invisible. Solid-state drives (SSDs) are migrating from the slab-like shapes of familiar hard drives into little sticks of memory that offer much the same capacities. And, in some cases, they're picking up speed along the way.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The traditional SSD that you buy and install in a &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-desktop-computers\\&quot;&gt;desktop PC&lt;\\\/a&gt;, or in place of a hard drive in a laptop, uses what's known as the \\&quot;2.5-inch drive\\&quot; form factor. (In actuality, the drives are about 2.75 inches wide.) These SSDs have the same dimensions that laptop-style hard drives do. SSD makers adopted this standard size to make SSDs compatible with existing laptop designs. (They could configure laptops with the choice of a hard drive or an SSD without any retooling.) Desktop PCs, meanwhile, could accommodate SSDs of this size with little fuss. You could mount them in a 3.5-inch drive bay using a simple bracket. Over time, too, desktop PC chassis have evolved to gain their own bays and mounting points for 2.5-inch drives.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;div&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;\\\/div&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;However, from an engineering point of view, SSDs didn't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;\\\/em&gt; to be that big.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The enclosure an SSD comes in has a lot of dead space inside. It's designed in that 2.5-inch size and shape to make the drive fit into those existing bays. So when mobile-device designers, challenged with slimming down laptops and tablets, reassessed this issue, the consensus was clear: The bulky 2.5-inch form factor, eventually, would have to go.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;At the core, an SSD is just a thin circuit board studded with flash-memory and controller chips. Why not design around that&lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_184 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Style replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;184\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;184\\&quot;&gt;?&lt;\\\/g&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe width=\\&quot;300\\&quot; height=\\&quot;150\\&quot; style=\\&quot;width: 100%; height: 100%;\\&quot; allowfullscreen=\\&quot;allowfullscreen\\&quot; frameborder=\\&quot;0\\&quot; src=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/mashable.com\\\/videos\\\/blueprint:Qml4bbOV0q\\\/embed\\\/?player=pcmag&amp;autoplay=true&amp;mute=true\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/iframe&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;&lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_184 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Style replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;184\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;184\\&quot;&gt;In&lt;\\\/g&gt; the Beginning, There Was mSATA...&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The first attempt was a new form factor called mini-SATA, or mSATA. The boiled-down essence of an SSD with the shell removed, &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_205 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;205\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;205\\&quot;&gt;an mSATA&lt;\\\/g&gt; drive is a bare, rectangular circuit board. (Most &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_203 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;203\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;203\\&quot;&gt;mSATA&lt;\\\/g&gt; drives relevant to upgraders measure about 1x2 inches.) mSATA drives fit into a special slot in a laptop's logic board or on a PC motherboard. As the name suggests, the slot is a conduit to the Serial ATA bus in the system. The interface on the drive end is an edge connector on the PCB, as opposed to the usual SATA cabling. The mSATA drive also draws all the power it needs through the slot.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;560954\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;By being reliant on SATA, mSATA drives gained all of the advantages and limitations of that interface, including the &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_206 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;206\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;206\\&quot;&gt;upper speed&lt;\\\/g&gt; limit of SATA 3.0, the latest revision of Serial ATA. That's not a bad thing, mind you. mSATA was also unusual in that it piggybacked on an existing connector, known as Mini-PCI, often used for installing small onboard components such as compact Wi-Fi cards.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, mSATA drives still linger on the market, primarily because some laptop models adopted the form factor a few years back, and residual demand exists as capacity upgrades. But it's definitely a fading form factor, and mSATA saw little adoption on desktop systems.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Even in mSATA's heyday, though, a replacement was in the works. During development, it was known by the prosaic name NGFF, for \\&quot;Next-Generation Form Factor,\\&quot; which still lingers. As it took shape, though, it took on its current, final name: M.2. The drives would be smaller, potentially more capacious, and, most important, not necessarily reliant on SATA.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;M.2: The Form Factor vs. the Bus&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;M.2 drives are as utilitarian as upgrades come: They look like sticks of gum studded with NAND modules and a controller chip. (\\&quot;NAND\\&quot; is the generic term for the flash-memory chips that make up the actual storage on the SSD; the term refers, technically, to the type of logic gates used in the underlying memory structure. See our primer &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/news\\\/buying-a-solid-state-drive-20-terms-you-need-to-know\\&quot;&gt;Buying an SSD: 20 Terms You Need to Know&lt;\\\/a&gt; for more SSD lingo explained.)&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;635962\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/span&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The key thing to remember about M.2 is that it is a form factor, a shape. The bus\u2014the data pathway over which the data travels to and from an M.2 drive\u2014is distinct from M.2 itself and can vary. And it can make all the difference.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;But first, the shape issue. Any M.2 drive you are looking at will be labeled with a four- or five-digit number as part of its specifications or model name. It's a measurement, in millimeters: The first two numbers define the drive's width, the second two the length.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The market has settled on 22mm wide as the standard for desktop and laptop implementations; the aftermarket drives available and the accessible slots we've seen have all been that width. The most common lengths we've seen are 80mm (\\&quot;M.2-2280\\&quot;) and 60mm (\\&quot;M.2-2260\\&quot;). The lengthier the drive, the more NAND chips you can tend to stuff on it (plus, M.2 drives can be single- or double-sided), though know that length isn't an absolute measure of capacity.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;560956\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, why does length matter? Fit, especially in the case of laptops. Most desktop motherboards with M.2 slots have screw-mounting points for several lengths of &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_194 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;194\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;194\\&quot;&gt;M.2&lt;\\\/g&gt; drive (usually, 80mm, 60mm, and 42mm), so length hasn't been an issue there. But it's a different matter in a laptop with a user-accessible M.2 slot. The bay may be space-limited to M.2 drives of a certain size. You'll want to check the space available before you shop.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;As we mentioned, M.2 drive length isn't always an indicator of drive capacity, but there &lt;em&gt;are&lt;\\\/em&gt; limits to NAND-chip density and how many memory modules engineers can stuff onto a PCB of a given size. As a result, most of the M.2 drives we've seen to date have topped out at 2TB. The typical capacity waypoints are 120GB or 128GB; 240GB, 250GB, or 256GB; 480GB, 500GB, or 512GB; 960GB or 1TB; and 2TB. (Smaller-capacity 32GB and 64GB M.2 SSDs are also available for use in embedded applications or for SSD caching, but these will be of only marginal interest to upgraders or PC builders.) Pricing on these drives ranges anywhere from 10 to 75 cents per gigabyte, and the biggest factor affecting price is the bus type of the drive.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, to reiterate an important point: A drive may come in the M.2 form factor, but that says nothing about the bus that it makes use of. Determining that is just as important as making sure it fits.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;The Bus-Interface Issue&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;This is the trickiest part of an M.2 upgrade. Most of the early M.2 drives were really just ordinary SATA drives stripped down to their fundamentals: a bare circuit board with a different physical &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_212 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;212\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;212\\&quot;&gt;connector,&lt;\\\/g&gt; but at heart the same drives as their 2.5-inch bigger brothers. Some of them still are. You won't see &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_211 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;211\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;211\\&quot;&gt;substantially&lt;\\\/g&gt; better performance with these M.2 SATA drives versus their 2.5-inch SATA equivalents, because ultimately your data is traveling along the exact same inner pathways inside the computer once it leaves the drive.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;That's not a bad thing. Especially in the case of laptops, a machine might support &lt;em&gt;only&lt;\\\/em&gt; M.2 SATA-bus SSDs, and that will be the boundary of your upgrade path...end of story. As a result, the only reason you'd upgrade the drive, in that situation, would be to get more capacity.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;More and more nowadays, though, lean, premium laptops can make use of PCI Express-bus M.2 SSDs. (Most new desktop motherboards with M.2 slots also support PCI Express M.2 SSDs.) With these, you may see a substantive increase in performance in benchmark testing, but in most real-world usage, they'll just feel like a fast, premium SATA SSD.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;637996\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The earliest versions of these M.2 PCI Express SSDs made use of the PCI Express Gen 2.0 x2 interface, which defines a throughput ceiling that's higher than SATA 3.0's, but not enormously so. That's changed. Most new, high-end M.2 drives, nowadays, support what's called PCI Express Gen 3.0 x4, paired with a technology called Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) to propel performance even further, especially with heavy, deeply queued workloads.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Beyond that is PCI Express 4.0. At this writing, we'd just gotten in the first PCI Express 4.0-compatible drives for testing, with read and write speeds rated as high as 5,000MBps. These drives are likely a peek at the future, but for the moment PCI Express 4.0 is supported only on desktop systems employing the AMD X570 (mainstream Ryzen) and AMD TRX40 (Ryzen Threadripper) chipsets.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Meet NVMe: The Speed Booster&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;NVMe is another technical &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_199 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;199\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;199\\&quot;&gt;hurdle,&lt;\\\/g&gt; because systems and motherboards need board-level support for these drives to be bootable. Most late-model motherboards now support PCI Express 3.0 x4 NVMe M.2 drives, but older boards are not guaranteed to support booting from an NVMe-based drive. Outside of new motherboards, these high-bandwidth, NVMe-capable connectors are only found in some recent laptops. Also note that in some cases, a laptop may support a PCI Express NVMe drive, but it may be soldered to the motherboard and thus not upgradable. So, if you're thinking of upgrading a recent laptop or convertible, be sure to consult your manual very closely before buying one of these drives.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;637989\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Among M.2 drives, PCI Express x4 M.2 drives that support NVMe are increasingly the norm among aftermarket purchases. We've tested a growing number, led by Samsung's field-leading and pioneering SSD Pro and SSD EVO families. Ever since those Samsung drives pioneered the way, though, we've also seen fine NVMe-capable models from ADATA, Plextor, WD, and many others.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;These are indeed impressively fast drives, leaving the fastest SATA-based drives well behind. But know that they are more relevant for PC builders or folks upgrading very recent systems rather than older PCs, which may not have an M.2 slot, or may have an M.2 slot but not one that supports PCI Express and\\\/or NVMe\u2014only SATA-based M.2. So, as we said in the previous paragraph, make sure that your system supports this kind of drive &lt;em&gt;before&lt;\\\/em&gt; picking one up. You don't want to bring home one of the fastest consumer drives available, only to find your system won't boot with it installed.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Basic Compatibility, Card-Based M.2, and Optane Memory&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Okay, back from Planet NVMe. Today, the real choice if you're M.2-shopping will be between basic SATA and PCI Express M.2 drives, and for most users, those options will be dictated simply by what your motherboard or laptop can accept. A careful browse of support forums or a call to the vendor's support line should unravel the M.2 bus-compatibility details. On the desktop side of the aisle, many recent M.2-equipped mobos support both kinds.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;If you're looking to upgrade a desktop but your PC's motherboard doesn't have an M.2 slot at all, one incidental option is what we call an \\&quot;M.2 drive on a card.\\&quot; We've seen solutions like this from storage stalwarts like Plextor and Kingston. Asus also offers an M.2 \\&quot;carrier card\\&quot; like these makers use. In essence, these products put your M.2 drive on a PCI Express expansion card and let you tap their speed through the PCI Express slots in a PC that lacks an M.2 slot. Some such cards support multiple M.2 drives, too. A few of the latest high-end AMD motherboards supporting PCI Express 4.0 even bundle such cards, supporting two or four M.2 drives, to supplement onboard M.2 slots.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;610249\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;We actually like these because often, you get a heat sink on the M.2 drive. Some PCI Express-bus M.2 SSDs can run hot under sustained read\\\/write tasks and throttle their speed. That said, unless you're running a server or something similar, where a drive is constantly getting hammered, that's usually not something you have to worry about. That's because many of these drives are so fast, they get their transfer duties done before they have a chance to get all that hot.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;One last caveat to drop in before we get to our product recommendations surrounds Intel's SSD line. Intel sells a family of M.2-based storage products under the brand name Optane. Know that there are two very distinct types of drives here, which may look identical. Intel's &lt;em&gt;Optane SSDs&lt;\\\/em&gt; are SSDs like any other, bootable drives that can serve as a stand-alone boot drive or as secondary storage.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Intel's &lt;em&gt;Optane Memory&lt;\\\/em&gt;, however, is a different animal. This is an M.2-format module that &lt;em&gt;looks&lt;\\\/em&gt; like an SSD, but serves as an accelerating cache for another drive, usually a hard drive. Again, these are not the same thing; if you're buying an Optane drive, make sure you know what you are buying. You can read a lot more about &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/review\\\/360897\\\/intel-optane-memory-32gb\\&quot;&gt;Optane Memory in our deep-dive review&lt;\\\/a&gt; of the first generation.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;573142\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;M.2 Upgrades and Boot Drives: What to Look For&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the cutting edge! You're shopping for a kind of drive that most folks don't even realize exists. As a result, you need to pay attention to several factors that may not be documented very well while you shop. Let's recap.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check the physical size.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; Make sure the width and especially the length (expressed in millimeters) will work in the space available for the drive. (This is mainly an issue with laptops.) Most will be 22mm wide, but the length varies: 42mm, 60mm, 80mm, 110mm are the most common sizes.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;632941\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Know which bus you're on.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; In a laptop-upgrade scenario, you're almost certainly swapping out one M.2 drive for another, with the intent of gaining capacity. Make sure you know the specifications of the drive coming out of your system\u2014and whether it's reliant on the SATA or PCI Express bus\u2014so you can install the same, presumably roomier kind going in.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;For a desktop, it's a bit trickier. Some motherboard M.2 slots support either SATA-bus or PCI Express-bus M.2 drives on the same slot. Others support only SATA M.2 drives, &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_221 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;221\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;221\\&quot;&gt;still&lt;\\\/g&gt; others support only PCI Express M.2 drives. (And, in the case of PCI Express M.2, not all motherboards support PCIe x4 or NVMe!) You need to know what your board is optimized to use and buy accordingly. All else being equal, PCI Express should give you a speed boost over a SATA model, but for everyday tasks, a SATA SSD will serve just as well, and be indistinguishable in most cases from a PCI Express one.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Also, with the very latest drives, look for PCI Express 4.0 support. You'll want to have a compliant late-model AMD motherboard if you buy one of those.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check for bootability.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; If you're installing an M.2 in a desktop board for the first time, verify with the board maker that an M.2 SSD of the bus type you are considering will be bootable. Though unlikely, a BIOS upgrade may be necessary.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Compare the cost per gig.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; Cost per gigabyte is the main yardstick whereby you can price-compare similar M.2 drives from different makers. Expect to pay more for PCI Express bus models, all else being equal, but the cost differences are narrowing. Divide the price (in dollars) by the capacity of the drive (in gigabytes) to get the cost per gig. For example, a 500GB drive that's selling for $99 works out to about 20 cents per gigabyte. Use this as a &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_224 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling\\&quot; id=\\&quot;224\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;224\\&quot;&gt;value&lt;\\\/g&gt; yardstick.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Ready for Our Recommendations?&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Below are the top M.2 solid-state drives that we've reviewed. You can also check out our roundups of the &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-internal-ssds\\&quot;&gt;best external SSDs&lt;\\\/a&gt;, as well as the &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/roundup\\\/294184\\\/the-best-external-hard-drives-for-mac\\&quot;&gt;best external hard drives for Mac&lt;\\\/a&gt;, and the overall &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-external-hard-drives\\&quot;&gt;best external hard drives&lt;\\\/a&gt;.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffroundupbottom title=\\&quot;Best M.2 Solid-State Drives Featured in This Roundup:\\&quot; 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Even if you're a close observer of all things tech, it's understandable if you didn't even realize it was happening.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;That's because the whole idea is to make the storage hardware itself close to invisible. Solid-state drives (SSDs) are migrating from the slab-like shapes of familiar hard drives into little sticks of memory that offer much the same capacities. And, in some cases, they're picking up speed along the way.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The traditional SSD that you buy and install in a &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-desktop-computers\\&quot;&gt;desktop PC&lt;\\\/a&gt;, or in place of a hard drive in a laptop, uses what's known as the \\&quot;2.5-inch drive\\&quot; form factor. (In actuality, the drives are about 2.75 inches wide.) These SSDs have the same dimensions that laptop-style hard drives do. SSD makers adopted this standard size to make SSDs compatible with existing laptop designs. (They could configure laptops with the choice of a hard drive or an SSD without any retooling.) Desktop PCs, meanwhile, could accommodate SSDs of this size with little fuss. You could mount them in a 3.5-inch drive bay using a simple bracket. Over time, too, desktop PC chassis have evolved to gain their own bays and mounting points for 2.5-inch drives.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;div&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;\\\/div&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;However, from an engineering point of view, SSDs didn't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;\\\/em&gt; to be that big.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The enclosure an SSD comes in has a lot of dead space inside. It's designed in that 2.5-inch size and shape to make the drive fit into those existing bays. So when mobile-device designers, challenged with slimming down laptops and tablets, reassessed this issue, the consensus was clear: The bulky 2.5-inch form factor, eventually, would have to go.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;At the core, an SSD is just a thin circuit board studded with flash-memory and controller chips. Why not design around that&lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_184 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Style replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;184\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;184\\&quot;&gt;?&lt;\\\/g&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe width=\\&quot;300\\&quot; height=\\&quot;150\\&quot; style=\\&quot;width: 100%; height: 100%;\\&quot; allowfullscreen=\\&quot;allowfullscreen\\&quot; frameborder=\\&quot;0\\&quot; src=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/mashable.com\\\/videos\\\/blueprint:Qml4bbOV0q\\\/embed\\\/?player=pcmag&amp;autoplay=true&amp;mute=true\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/iframe&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;&lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_184 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Style replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;184\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;184\\&quot;&gt;In&lt;\\\/g&gt; the Beginning, There Was mSATA...&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The first attempt was a new form factor called mini-SATA, or mSATA. The boiled-down essence of an SSD with the shell removed, &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_205 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;205\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;205\\&quot;&gt;an mSATA&lt;\\\/g&gt; drive is a bare, rectangular circuit board. (Most &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_203 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;203\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;203\\&quot;&gt;mSATA&lt;\\\/g&gt; drives relevant to upgraders measure about 1x2 inches.) mSATA drives fit into a special slot in a laptop's logic board or on a PC motherboard. As the name suggests, the slot is a conduit to the Serial ATA bus in the system. The interface on the drive end is an edge connector on the PCB, as opposed to the usual SATA cabling. The mSATA drive also draws all the power it needs through the slot.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;560954\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;By being reliant on SATA, mSATA drives gained all of the advantages and limitations of that interface, including the &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_206 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace\\&quot; id=\\&quot;206\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;206\\&quot;&gt;upper speed&lt;\\\/g&gt; limit of SATA 3.0, the latest revision of Serial ATA. That's not a bad thing, mind you. mSATA was also unusual in that it piggybacked on an existing connector, known as Mini-PCI, often used for installing small onboard components such as compact Wi-Fi cards.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, mSATA drives still linger on the market, primarily because some laptop models adopted the form factor a few years back, and residual demand exists as capacity upgrades. But it's definitely a fading form factor, and mSATA saw little adoption on desktop systems.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Even in mSATA's heyday, though, a replacement was in the works. During development, it was known by the prosaic name NGFF, for \\&quot;Next-Generation Form Factor,\\&quot; which still lingers. As it took shape, though, it took on its current, final name: M.2. The drives would be smaller, potentially more capacious, and, most important, not necessarily reliant on SATA.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;M.2: The Form Factor vs. the Bus&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;M.2 drives are as utilitarian as upgrades come: They look like sticks of gum studded with NAND modules and a controller chip. (\\&quot;NAND\\&quot; is the generic term for the flash-memory chips that make up the actual storage on the SSD; the term refers, technically, to the type of logic gates used in the underlying memory structure. See our primer &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/news\\\/buying-a-solid-state-drive-20-terms-you-need-to-know\\&quot;&gt;Buying an SSD: 20 Terms You Need to Know&lt;\\\/a&gt; for more SSD lingo explained.)&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;635962\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/span&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The key thing to remember about M.2 is that it is a form factor, a shape. The bus\u2014the data pathway over which the data travels to and from an M.2 drive\u2014is distinct from M.2 itself and can vary. And it can make all the difference.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;But first, the shape issue. Any M.2 drive you are looking at will be labeled with a four- or five-digit number as part of its specifications or model name. It's a measurement, in millimeters: The first two numbers define the drive's width, the second two the length.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The market has settled on 22mm wide as the standard for desktop and laptop implementations; the aftermarket drives available and the accessible slots we've seen have all been that width. The most common lengths we've seen are 80mm (\\&quot;M.2-2280\\&quot;) and 60mm (\\&quot;M.2-2260\\&quot;). The lengthier the drive, the more NAND chips you can tend to stuff on it (plus, M.2 drives can be single- or double-sided), though know that length isn't an absolute measure of capacity.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;560956\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, why does length matter? Fit, especially in the case of laptops. Most desktop motherboards with M.2 slots have screw-mounting points for several lengths of &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_194 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;194\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;194\\&quot;&gt;M.2&lt;\\\/g&gt; drive (usually, 80mm, 60mm, and 42mm), so length hasn't been an issue there. But it's a different matter in a laptop with a user-accessible M.2 slot. The bay may be space-limited to M.2 drives of a certain size. You'll want to check the space available before you shop.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;As we mentioned, M.2 drive length isn't always an indicator of drive capacity, but there &lt;em&gt;are&lt;\\\/em&gt; limits to NAND-chip density and how many memory modules engineers can stuff onto a PCB of a given size. As a result, most of the M.2 drives we've seen to date have topped out at 2TB. The typical capacity waypoints are 120GB or 128GB; 240GB, 250GB, or 256GB; 480GB, 500GB, or 512GB; 960GB or 1TB; and 2TB. (Smaller-capacity 32GB and 64GB M.2 SSDs are also available for use in embedded applications or for SSD caching, but these will be of only marginal interest to upgraders or PC builders.) Pricing on these drives ranges anywhere from 10 to 75 cents per gigabyte, and the biggest factor affecting price is the bus type of the drive.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Now, to reiterate an important point: A drive may come in the M.2 form factor, but that says nothing about the bus that it makes use of. Determining that is just as important as making sure it fits.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;The Bus-Interface Issue&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;This is the trickiest part of an M.2 upgrade. Most of the early M.2 drives were really just ordinary SATA drives stripped down to their fundamentals: a bare circuit board with a different physical &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_212 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;212\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;212\\&quot;&gt;connector,&lt;\\\/g&gt; but at heart the same drives as their 2.5-inch bigger brothers. Some of them still are. You won't see &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_211 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;211\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;211\\&quot;&gt;substantially&lt;\\\/g&gt; better performance with these M.2 SATA drives versus their 2.5-inch SATA equivalents, because ultimately your data is traveling along the exact same inner pathways inside the computer once it leaves the drive.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;That's not a bad thing. Especially in the case of laptops, a machine might support &lt;em&gt;only&lt;\\\/em&gt; M.2 SATA-bus SSDs, and that will be the boundary of your upgrade path...end of story. As a result, the only reason you'd upgrade the drive, in that situation, would be to get more capacity.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;More and more nowadays, though, lean, premium laptops can make use of PCI Express-bus M.2 SSDs. (Most new desktop motherboards with M.2 slots also support PCI Express M.2 SSDs.) With these, you may see a substantive increase in performance in benchmark testing, but in most real-world usage, they'll just feel like a fast, premium SATA SSD.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;637996\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/ziffimage&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;The earliest versions of these M.2 PCI Express SSDs made use of the PCI Express Gen 2.0 x2 interface, which defines a throughput ceiling that's higher than SATA 3.0's, but not enormously so. That's changed. Most new, high-end M.2 drives, nowadays, support what's called PCI Express Gen 3.0 x4, paired with a technology called Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) to propel performance even further, especially with heavy, deeply queued workloads.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Beyond that is PCI Express 4.0. At this writing, we'd just gotten in the first PCI Express 4.0-compatible drives for testing, with read and write speeds rated as high as 5,000MBps. These drives are likely a peek at the future, but for the moment PCI Express 4.0 is supported only on desktop systems employing the AMD X570 (mainstream Ryzen) and AMD TRX40 (Ryzen Threadripper) chipsets.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Meet NVMe: The Speed Booster&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;NVMe is another technical &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_199 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;199\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;199\\&quot;&gt;hurdle,&lt;\\\/g&gt; because systems and motherboards need board-level support for these drives to be bootable. Most late-model motherboards now support PCI Express 3.0 x4 NVMe M.2 drives, but older boards are not guaranteed to support booting from an NVMe-based drive. Outside of new motherboards, these high-bandwidth, NVMe-capable connectors are only found in some recent laptops. Also note that in some cases, a laptop may support a PCI Express NVMe drive, but it may be soldered to the motherboard and thus not upgradable. So, if you're thinking of upgrading a recent laptop or convertible, be sure to consult your manual very closely before buying one of these drives.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;637989\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Among M.2 drives, PCI Express x4 M.2 drives that support NVMe are increasingly the norm among aftermarket purchases. We've tested a growing number, led by Samsung's field-leading and pioneering SSD Pro and SSD EVO families. Ever since those Samsung drives pioneered the way, though, we've also seen fine NVMe-capable models from ADATA, Plextor, WD, and many others.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;These are indeed impressively fast drives, leaving the fastest SATA-based drives well behind. But know that they are more relevant for PC builders or folks upgrading very recent systems rather than older PCs, which may not have an M.2 slot, or may have an M.2 slot but not one that supports PCI Express and\\\/or NVMe\u2014only SATA-based M.2. So, as we said in the previous paragraph, make sure that your system supports this kind of drive &lt;em&gt;before&lt;\\\/em&gt; picking one up. You don't want to bring home one of the fastest consumer drives available, only to find your system won't boot with it installed.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Basic Compatibility, Card-Based M.2, and Optane Memory&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Okay, back from Planet NVMe. Today, the real choice if you're M.2-shopping will be between basic SATA and PCI Express M.2 drives, and for most users, those options will be dictated simply by what your motherboard or laptop can accept. A careful browse of support forums or a call to the vendor's support line should unravel the M.2 bus-compatibility details. On the desktop side of the aisle, many recent M.2-equipped mobos support both kinds.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;If you're looking to upgrade a desktop but your PC's motherboard doesn't have an M.2 slot at all, one incidental option is what we call an \\&quot;M.2 drive on a card.\\&quot; We've seen solutions like this from storage stalwarts like Plextor and Kingston. Asus also offers an M.2 \\&quot;carrier card\\&quot; like these makers use. In essence, these products put your M.2 drive on a PCI Express expansion card and let you tap their speed through the PCI Express slots in a PC that lacks an M.2 slot. Some such cards support multiple M.2 drives, too. A few of the latest high-end AMD motherboards supporting PCI Express 4.0 even bundle such cards, supporting two or four M.2 drives, to supplement onboard M.2 slots.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;610249\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;We actually like these because often, you get a heat sink on the M.2 drive. Some PCI Express-bus M.2 SSDs can run hot under sustained read\\\/write tasks and throttle their speed. That said, unless you're running a server or something similar, where a drive is constantly getting hammered, that's usually not something you have to worry about. That's because many of these drives are so fast, they get their transfer duties done before they have a chance to get all that hot.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;One last caveat to drop in before we get to our product recommendations surrounds Intel's SSD line. Intel sells a family of M.2-based storage products under the brand name Optane. Know that there are two very distinct types of drives here, which may look identical. Intel's &lt;em&gt;Optane SSDs&lt;\\\/em&gt; are SSDs like any other, bootable drives that can serve as a stand-alone boot drive or as secondary storage.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Intel's &lt;em&gt;Optane Memory&lt;\\\/em&gt;, however, is a different animal. This is an M.2-format module that &lt;em&gt;looks&lt;\\\/em&gt; like an SSD, but serves as an accelerating cache for another drive, usually a hard drive. Again, these are not the same thing; if you're buying an Optane drive, make sure you know what you are buying. You can read a lot more about &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/review\\\/360897\\\/intel-optane-memory-32gb\\&quot;&gt;Optane Memory in our deep-dive review&lt;\\\/a&gt; of the first generation.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;573142\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;M.2 Upgrades and Boot Drives: What to Look For&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the cutting edge! You're shopping for a kind of drive that most folks don't even realize exists. As a result, you need to pay attention to several factors that may not be documented very well while you shop. Let's recap.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check the physical size.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; Make sure the width and especially the length (expressed in millimeters) will work in the space available for the drive. (This is mainly an issue with laptops.) Most will be 22mm wide, but the length varies: 42mm, 60mm, 80mm, 110mm are the most common sizes.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffimage id=\\&quot;632941\\&quot; align=\\&quot;center\\&quot;\\\/&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Know which bus you're on.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; In a laptop-upgrade scenario, you're almost certainly swapping out one M.2 drive for another, with the intent of gaining capacity. Make sure you know the specifications of the drive coming out of your system\u2014and whether it's reliant on the SATA or PCI Express bus\u2014so you can install the same, presumably roomier kind going in.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;For a desktop, it's a bit trickier. Some motherboard M.2 slots support either SATA-bus or PCI Express-bus M.2 drives on the same slot. Others support only SATA M.2 drives, &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_221 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\\&quot; id=\\&quot;221\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;221\\&quot;&gt;still&lt;\\\/g&gt; others support only PCI Express M.2 drives. (And, in the case of PCI Express M.2, not all motherboards support PCIe x4 or NVMe!) You need to know what your board is optimized to use and buy accordingly. All else being equal, PCI Express should give you a speed boost over a SATA model, but for everyday tasks, a SATA SSD will serve just as well, and be indistinguishable in most cases from a PCI Express one.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Also, with the very latest drives, look for PCI Express 4.0 support. You'll want to have a compliant late-model AMD motherboard if you buy one of those.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check for bootability.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; If you're installing an M.2 in a desktop board for the first time, verify with the board maker that an M.2 SSD of the bus type you are considering will be bootable. Though unlikely, a BIOS upgrade may be necessary.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Compare the cost per gig.&lt;\\\/strong&gt; Cost per gigabyte is the main yardstick whereby you can price-compare similar M.2 drives from different makers. Expect to pay more for PCI Express bus models, all else being equal, but the cost differences are narrowing. Divide the price (in dollars) by the capacity of the drive (in gigabytes) to get the cost per gig. For example, a 500GB drive that's selling for $99 works out to about 20 cents per gigabyte. Use this as a &lt;g class=\\&quot;gr_ gr_224 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling\\&quot; id=\\&quot;224\\&quot; data-gr-id=\\&quot;224\\&quot;&gt;value&lt;\\\/g&gt; yardstick.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;hr \\\/&gt;\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;h2&gt;Ready for Our Recommendations?&lt;\\\/h2&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;Below are the top M.2 solid-state drives that we've reviewed. You can also check out our roundups of the &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-internal-ssds\\&quot;&gt;best external SSDs&lt;\\\/a&gt;, as well as the &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/roundup\\\/294184\\\/the-best-external-hard-drives-for-mac\\&quot;&gt;best external hard drives for Mac&lt;\\\/a&gt;, and the overall &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcmag.com\\\/picks\\\/the-best-external-hard-drives\\&quot;&gt;best external hard drives&lt;\\\/a&gt;.&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\r\\n\\r\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;ziffroundupbottom title=\\&quot;Best M.2 Solid-State Drives Featured in This Roundup:\\&quot; 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(In actuality, the drives are about 2.75 inches wide.) These SSDs have the same dimensions as laptop-style hard drives. Years back, SSD makers adopted this standard size to make SSDs compatible with existing laptop designs. (As a result, laptop makers could configure laptops with the choice of a hard drive or an SSD without any retooling.) <\/p>\n<p>Desktop PCs, meanwhile, could accommodate SSDs of this size with little fuss. You can mount them in a 3.5-inch drive bay using a simple bracket, or sometimes even use alternative screw holes spaced for 2.5-inch drives in those same trays or mounting locations. Over time, too, desktop PC chassis have evolved to gain dedicated bays and mounting points for 2.5-inch drives. Indeed, many desktop PC cases now have more 2.5-inch drive mounts than trays for bigger 3.5-inch hard drives.<\/p>\n<p>However, from an engineering perspective, SSDs didn&#8217;t\u00a0<em>need\u00a0<\/em>to be that large. The enclosure that an SSD comes in has a lot of dead space inside. It&#8217;s designed in that 2.5-inch size and shape to fit the drive into those existing bays. So when mobile-device designers, challenged with slimming down laptops and tablets, reassessed this issue, the consensus was clear: The bulky 2.5-inch form factor would eventually have to go.<\/p>\n<p>At its core, an SSD is just a thin circuit board studded with flash memory and controller chips. Why not design around that? Thus, the M.2 form factor was born. But we&#8217;re getting ahead of ourselves.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2 id=\"a-short-history-of-small-ssds-msata-to-m2\">A Short History of Small SSDs: mSATA to M.2<\/h2>\n<p>The first attempt was a new form factor called mini-SATA (mSATA). The boiled-down essence of an SSD with the shell removed,\u00a0an mSATA\u00a0drive is a bare, rectangular circuit board. (Most\u00a0mSATA\u00a0drives relevant to upgraders measure about 1 by 2 inches.) mSATA drives fit into a dedicated mSATA slot on a laptop&#8217;s logic board or a PC motherboard. As the name suggests, the slot is a conduit to the Serial ATA bus in the system. The interface on the drive end is an edge connector on the PCB rather than the usual SATA cabling. The mSATA drive also draws all the power it needs through the slot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pcmag.com\/imagery\/roundups\/021noCOwUKxdyOiAq9WwDS0-35.png\" data-lazy-sized=\"\" alt=\"mSATA Drive\" data-image-path=\"roundups\/021noCOwUKxdyOiAq9WwDS0-35.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n    <small>(Credit: HP)<\/small>\n<\/p>\n<p>By relying on SATA, mSATA drives gained all of the advantages and limitations of that interface, including the\u00a0upper speed\u00a0limit of SATA 3.0, the latest revision of Serial ATA. That&#8217;s not a bad thing, mind you. mSATA was also unusual because it piggybacked on an existing connector, known as Mini-PCI, which is often used to install small onboard components, such as compact Wi-Fi cards.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a few mSATA drives still linger on the market, primarily because some older laptop models adopted the form factor years ago, and residual demand exists due to capacity upgrades. However, it&#8217;s a dead form factor, and mSATA saw only slight adoption on desktop systems.<\/p>\n<p>Even in mSATA&#8217;s heyday, a replacement was in the works. During development, it was known as NGFF, for &#8220;Next-Generation Form Factor.&#8221; As it took shape, it took on its current, final name: M.2. The drives would be smaller, potentially more capacious, and, most important, not necessarily reliant on the SATA bus.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2 id=\"what-is-an-m2-ssd\">What Is an M.2 SSD?<\/h2>\n<p>M.2 drives are as utilitarian as upgrades come: They look like sticks of gum studded with NAND modules and a controller chip. (&#8220;NAND&#8221; is the generic term for the flash-memory chips that make up the actual storage on the SSD; the term refers, technically, to the type of logic gates used in the underlying memory structure. See our primer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/buying-a-solid-state-drive-20-terms-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_self\">Buying an SSD: 20 Terms You Need to Know<\/a>\u00a0for more SSD lingo explained.)<\/p>\n<p>The critical thing to remember about M.2 is that it is a form factor, a shape. The bus\u2014the data pathway the data travels to and from an M.2 drive\u2014is distinct from M.2 itself and can vary. And it can make all the difference in terms of speed and compatibility.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pcmag.com\/imagery\/roundups\/021noCOwUKxdyOiAq9WwDS0-39.jpg\" data-lazy-sized=\"\" alt=\"Corsair MP700 Pro SE\" data-image-path=\"roundups\/021noCOwUKxdyOiAq9WwDS0-39.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n    <small>(Credit: Joseph Maldonado)<\/small>\n<\/p>\n<p>But first, the shape issue. Any M.2 drive you are looking at will be labeled with a four- or five-digit number as part of its specifications or model name. It&#8217;s actually two measurements, in millimeters. The first two numbers define the drive&#8217;s width, and the second two or three numbers define the length.<\/p>\n<p>The market has settled on 22mm wide as the standard for desktop and laptop implementations; the aftermarket drives available and the accessible slots we&#8217;ve seen have all been that width. The most common lengths are 80mm (&#8220;Type-2280&#8221;) and 60mm (&#8220;Type-2260&#8221;). The longer the drive, the more NAND chips you can fit on it (plus, M.2 drives can be single- or double-sided), though note that length isn&#8217;t an absolute measure of capacity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pcmag.com\/imagery\/roundups\/021noCOwUKxdyOiAq9WwDS0-3.jpg\" data-lazy-sized=\"\" alt=\"M.2 Sizes\" data-image-path=\"roundups\/021noCOwUKxdyOiAq9WwDS0-3.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n    <small>42mm, 60mm, and 80mm M.2 SSDs (Credit: Intel)<\/small>\n<\/p>\n<p>Now, why does length matter? Fit, especially when talking about laptops. Most desktop motherboards with M.2 slots have screw-mounting points for several lengths of\u00a0M.2\u00a0drive (usually 80mm, 60mm, and 42mm), so length hasn&#8217;t been an issue. However, it&#8217;s a different matter with a laptop that has a user-accessible M.2 slot. The bay may be space-limited to M.2 drives of a specific size, or only to single-sided modules if the thickness tolerances are tight. You&#8217;ll want to check the available space before shopping.<\/p>\n<p>The latest generation of M.2 drives, using the PCI Express 5.0 bus, also come in the Type-2280 format. M.2 drive length isn&#8217;t always an indicator of drive capacity, but there\u00a0are\u00a0limits to NAND-chip density and how many memory modules engineers can stuff onto a PCB of a given size. As a result, most M.2 drive families we&#8217;ve seen to date have topped out at 2TB or 4TB, though you can find a few 8TB models at lofty prices, and enterprise-class 16TB M.2 modules <em>do <\/em>exist. The typical capacity waypoints are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>120GB or 128GB<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>240GB, 250GB, or 256GB<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>480GB, 500GB, or 512GB<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>960GB or 1TB<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>2TB, 4TB, and 8TB<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Smaller-capacity 32GB and 64GB M.2 SSDs are also available for embedded applications or SSD caching, but they are of marginal interest to upgraders or PC builders. Pricing for these drives ranges from 6 to 75 cents per gigabyte, and the most significant factor affecting price is the drive&#8217;s bus type.<\/p>\n<p>Now, to reiterate an important point: A drive may come in the M.2 form factor, but that says nothing about the bus it uses. Determining that is just as important as making sure it fits.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2 id=\"pci-express-vs-sata-the-two-main-ssd-buses-explained\">PCI Express vs. SATA: The Two Main SSD Buses, Explained<\/h2>\n<p>This is the trickiest part of an M.2 SSD upgrade. Most of the early M.2 drives were simply ordinary SATA drives stripped down to their fundamentals: a bare circuit board with a different physical connector, but at heart, the same drives as their larger 2.5-inch counterparts. Some of them still are. You won&#8217;t see\u00a0better performance with these M.2 SATA drives versus their 2.5-inch SATA equivalents, because ultimately your data is traveling along the same inner pathways inside the computer once it leaves the drive.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not a bad thing. Especially with laptops, an older machine might support only M.2 SATA SSDs, and that will be the limit of your upgrade path&#8230;end of story. As a result, the only reasons you&#8217;d upgrade the drive, in that situation, would be to get more capacity, or if the old one failed.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, however, lean, premium laptops can utilize PCI Express-based M.2 SSDs. (All new desktop motherboards with M.2 slots also support PCI Express M.2 SSDs.) These will show a substantial increase in performance in benchmark testing over SATA SSDs, but in most real-world use cases, they&#8217;ll feel much the same as a fast, premium SATA SSD.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pcmag.com\/imagery\/roundups\/021noCOwUKxdyOiAq9WwDS0-40.jpg\" data-lazy-sized=\"\" alt=\"Corsair MP700 Pro SE\" data-image-path=\"roundups\/021noCOwUKxdyOiAq9WwDS0-40.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n    <small>(Credit: Joseph Maldonado)<\/small>\n<\/p>\n<p>The earliest versions of M.2 PCI Express SSDs used the PCI Express Gen 2.0 x2 interface, which defines a throughput ceiling higher than SATA 3.0&#8217;s but not enormously so. That evolved into PCI Express Gen 3.0 x2 and x4, paired with a technology called Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) to propel performance even further, especially with heavy, deeply queued workloads.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that is PCI Express 4.0, a newer version of the PCI Express bus. It has rapidly gained traction and, in most cases, signifies a fast drive. The read and write speeds for some are rated as high as 7,000MBps. These drives are supported on recent desktop systems with recent AMD and Intel chipsets, as well as on the latest mobile platforms. For AMD, that is the X570 and B550 (and later) chipsets (for mainstream Ryzen CPUs) and the AMD TRX40 and later (for Ryzen Threadripper). With Intel, PCI Express 4.0 is supported on Intel 500-series and later chipsets that work with 11th Gen and later desktop CPUs, or on laptops built on 11th Gen and later mobile platforms. You&#8217;ll want to verify that specific support in the PC&#8217;s specs, however.  <\/p>\n<p>You can use these PCIe 4.0-based SSDs in older AMD- and Intel-chipset systems that support PCI Express 3.0, but they&#8217;ll run at slower PCIe 3.0 speeds. Fast on PCIe 4.0&#8217;s heels, though, is PCIe 5.0. Most of the very latest desktop motherboards already support it, but keep in mind that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/what-is-pci-express-50-and-why-does-it-matter-for-the-newest-ssds\" target=\"_self\">PCIe 5.0 M.2 SSDs<\/a> are top-end picks. Also, note that just because a motherboard supports the PCIe 5.0\u00a0<em>bus<\/em> doesn&#8217;t mean the board maker necessarily included a PCIe 5.0-capable M.2 SSD <em>slot<\/em>. (The 5.0 support may only be extended to ordinary PCIe x16 expansion slots.) Again, check those specs!<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2 id=\"what-is-nvme-an-ssd-speed-booster\">What Is NVMe? An SSD Speed Booster<\/h2>\n<p>We mentioned NVMe above. NVMe is another technical\u00a0hurdle to consider,\u00a0because systems and motherboards need board-level support for these drives to be bootable. All late-model motherboards now support NVMe M.2 drives, but older boards may not support booting from an NVMe drive. Outside of new desktop motherboards, these high-bandwidth, NVMe-capable slots are found in many recent laptops. Also note that in some cases, a laptop may support a PCI Express NVMe drive, but it may be soldered to the motherboard and thus not upgradable. If you&#8217;re considering upgrading a recent laptop or convertible, consult your manual or online technical documentation closely before purchasing one of these drives.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pcmag.com\/imagery\/roundups\/021noCOwUKxdyOiAq9WwDS0-41.jpg\" data-lazy-sized=\"\" alt=\"Crucial P310\" data-image-path=\"roundups\/021noCOwUKxdyOiAq9WwDS0-41.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n    <small>(Credit: Joseph Maldonado)<\/small>\n<\/p>\n<p>Among M.2 drives, PCI Express 3.0 and 4.0 x4 M.2 drives that support NVMe are now the norm among aftermarket purchases. These are impressively fast drives, outpacing even the fastest SATA-based SSDs and hard drives. But know that they are more relevant for PC builders or folks upgrading relatively recent systems rather than older PCs, which may not have an M.2 slot, or may have an M.2 slot but not one that supports PCI Express and NVMe\u2014only SATA-based M.2. So, as we said in the previous paragraph, make sure that your system supports this kind of drive\u00a0before\u00a0picking one up. You don&#8217;t want to bring home one of the fastest consumer drives available only to find your system can&#8217;t use it.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2 id=\"how-to-figure-out-m2-compatibility-with-your-pc\">How to Figure Out M.2 Compatibility With Your PC<\/h2>\n<p>OK, back from Planet NVMe. Today, the real choice if you&#8217;re M.2-shopping will be between basic SATA and PCI Express M.2 drives, and for most users, those options will be dictated simply by what your motherboard or laptop can accept. A careful browse of support forums or a call to the vendor&#8217;s support line should unravel the M.2 bus-compatibility details. On the desktop side of the aisle, some M.2-equipped motherboards support both kinds, although not necessarily on all slots.<\/p>\n<div class=\"py-4\" data-parent-group=\"related-stories\">\n<div class=\"mx-0 border border-b border-l-0 border-r-0 border-t border-gray-300 py-4 md:ml-8 md:mr-24\">\n<h3 class=\"font-stretch-ultra-condensed mb-2 text-lg font-semibold uppercase\">Recommended by Our Editors<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking to upgrade an aged desktop but your PC&#8217;s motherboard doesn&#8217;t have an M.2 slot at all, one incidental option is what we call an &#8220;M.2 drive on a card&#8221; or an AIB SSD (for &#8220;add-in-board SSD&#8221;). We&#8217;ve seen solutions like this from storage stalwarts such as OWC and Kingston. Additionally, some of Asus&#8217; and MSI&#8217;s high-end motherboards offer an M.2 PCI Express 4.0 &#8220;carrier card&#8221; to supplement their boards&#8217; on-board M.2 slots. These products let you mount an M.2 drive (or drives) on a PCI Express expansion card and tap their speed through the full-size PCI Express slots in a desktop PC that lacks enough M.2 slots. Some such cards support as many as four M.2 drives.<\/p>\n<p>We like these because they often come with a robust heat sink on the M.2 drive(s). Some PCI Express-based M.2 SSDs can run hot during sustained read\/write operations and throttle their performance. That said, unless you&#8217;re running a server or something similar where a drive is constantly subjected to intense read and write activity, you usually don&#8217;t need to worry about it. That&#8217;s because many of these drives are so fast, they get their transfer duties done before they can get all that hot.<\/p>\n<p>One last caveat to discuss before our product recommendations surrounds Intel&#8217;s former SSD line. For a while, Intel sold a family of M.2-based storage products under the brand name Optane in two very distinct types of drives. Intel&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;Optane SSDs&#8221;\u00a0were SSDs like any other, bootable drives that can serve as a stand-alone boot drive or as secondary storage. They were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/intel-discontinues-optane-only-ssds-for-consumers\" target=\"_self\">discontinued for consumers in 2021<\/a>, but you may still see the Optane name around. (Intel sold its SSD business at the end of 2021 to SK Hynix, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intel.com\/content\/www\/us\/en\/newsroom\/news\/intel-sells-ssd-business-dalian-facility-sk-hynix.html#gs.za06zo\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"(Opens in a new tab)\">which spun it off into a new subsidiary<\/a>, Solidigm.)<\/p>\n<p>Intel&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;Optane Memory&#8221; is a different animal. This is an M.2-format module that\u00a0<em>looks<\/em>\u00a0like an SSD but serves as an accelerating cache for another drive, usually a hard drive. You can read more about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/reviews\/intel-optane-memory\" target=\"_self\">Optane Memory in our deep-dive review<\/a>\u00a0of the first generation. It&#8217;s a dead duck now; we only mention it because you may run into it if you upgrade a laptop or desktop from more than a few years ago. If you can, replace the hard drive and the Optane module with a vanilla M.2 SSD if the PC supports it; you&#8217;ll probably have to reinstall the operating system to make it all work. Better yet, upgrade the whole PC, because it is probably more than five years old.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2 id=\"m2-upgrades-and-boot-drives-what-to-look-for\">M.2 Upgrades and Boot Drives: What to Look For<\/h2>\n<p>Welcome to the cutting edge! You&#8217;re shopping for a kind of drive that many folks don&#8217;t even realize exists. As a result, you need to pay attention to several factors that may not be documented well while you shop. Let&#8217;s go ahead and recap. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Check the physical size.\u00a0<\/strong>Be sure the width and, especially, the length (expressed in millimeters) will fit within the available space for the drive. (This is mainly an issue with laptops.) Most will be 22mm wide, but the length varies: 42mm, 60mm, 80mm, and 110mm are the standard sizes, with 80mm being the most common for both standard desktop and laptop upgrades. Many desktop motherboards&#8217; M.2 slots can accommodate multiple drive lengths via a mounting post that can be repositioned from hole to hole.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Know which bus you&#8217;re on.<\/strong>\u00a0In a laptop upgrade scenario, you&#8217;re almost certainly swapping out one M.2 drive for another to increase capacity. (Only a few laptops have more than one M.2 slot.) Make sure you know the specifications of the drive coming out of your system\u2014and whether it&#8217;s reliant on the SATA or PCI Express bus\u2014so you can install the same, presumably roomier kind going in.<\/p>\n<p>For a desktop, it&#8217;s a bit trickier. Some motherboard M.2 slots support SATA-bus or PCI Express-bus M.2 drives on the same slot. Others support only SATA M.2 drives (those will be older boards),\u00a0while\u00a0others support only PCI Express M.2 drives. (And, in the case of PCI Express M.2, not all older motherboards support PCIe x4 or NVMe!) You need to know what your board can use, and buy accordingly. All else being equal, PCI Express should provide a speed boost over a SATA model; nowadays, opt for PCI Express if you have a choice.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pcmag.com\/imagery\/roundups\/021noCOwUKxdyOiAq9WwDS0-42.jpg\" data-lazy-sized=\"\" alt=\"Crucial T705\" data-image-path=\"roundups\/021noCOwUKxdyOiAq9WwDS0-42.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n    <small>(Credit: Joseph Maldonado)<\/small>\n<\/p>\n<p>Also, look for PCI Express 4.0 or even PCIe 5.0 support with recent drives. If you buy one of those, you&#8217;ll need a compliant late-model AMD or Intel motherboard to fully leverage their speed. Again, check the specs to avoid overbuying for your system. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Check for bootability.\u00a0<\/strong>If you&#8217;re installing an M.2 SSD in a desktop board for the first time, verify with the board maker that an M.2 SSD of the bus type you are considering will be bootable. Though unlikely, a BIOS upgrade may be necessary with an older motherboard. This won&#8217;t be an issue with boards from recent years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Compare the cost per gig.\u00a0<\/strong>Cost per gigabyte is the primary yardstick for pricing-comparing similar M.2 drives from different makers. Expect to pay more for PCI Express bus models, all else being equal, and more for PCIe 4.0 drives than for PCIe 3.0 ones (and more for PCIe 5.0, compared with PCIe 4.0). However, the cost differences are narrowing in both cases. Divide the price (in dollars) by the drive capacity (in gigabytes) to get the cost per gigabyte. For example, a 1TB (1,000GB) drive selling for $99 costs about 10 cents per gigabyte. Use this as a value\u00a0yardstick for comparing different drives.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pcmag.com\/imagery\/roundups\/021noCOwUKxdyOiAq9WwDS0-43.jpg\" data-lazy-sized=\"\" alt=\"Crucial T705\" data-image-path=\"roundups\/021noCOwUKxdyOiAq9WwDS0-43.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n    <small>(Credit: Joseph Maldonado)<\/small>\n<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2 id=\"ready-to-buy-the-right-m2-ssd-for-you\">Ready to Buy the Right M.2 SSD for You?<\/h2>\n<p>We trust that you are now better equipped to make the right choice. Take a look at the spec breakout of the top M.2 solid-state drives that we&#8217;ve reviewed. These are, of course, all internal drives; you can also check out our roundups of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/picks\/the-best-ssds\" target=\"_self\">best external SSDs<\/a>, as well as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/picks\/the-best-external-hard-drives-for-mac\" target=\"_self\">best external hard drives for Macs<\/a> and the overall\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/picks\/the-best-external-hard-drives\" target=\"_self\">best external hard drives<\/a>. Also, if you&#8217;re also interested in factoring larger 2.5-inch drives into the equation, check out our roundup of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/picks\/the-best-internal-ssds\" target=\"_self\">best internal SSDs<\/a>, which includes some 2.5-inch models.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    var facebookPixelLoaded = false;\n    window.addEventListener('load', function() {\n        document.addEventListener('scroll', facebookPixelScript);\n        document.addEventListener('mousemove', facebookPixelScript);\n    });\n    function facebookPixelScript() {\n        if (!facebookPixelLoaded) {\n            facebookPixelLoaded = true;\n            document.removeEventListener('scroll', facebookPixelScript);\n            document.removeEventListener('mousemove', facebookPixelScript);\n            window.zdconsent.cmd.push(function() {\n                ! function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function() {\n                        n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script', '\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '454758778052139');\n                fbq('track', \"PageView\");\n            });\n        }\n    }\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/picks\/the-best-m2-solid-state-drives\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deeper Dive: Our Top Tested Picks EDITORS&#8217; NOTE April 12, 2026: With this update, our list of top recommended M.2 SSDs remains unchanged. 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