One of the easiest mistakes to make when building or upgrading a PC is assuming that every M.2 slot on a motherboard is basically the same. After all, they all look nearly identical and take the same "gum stick-shaped" drives. Motherboard marketing pages love to list "4 x M.2" as though that number alone tells the whole story, but in practice, these slots can behave very differently. You could have a perfectly healthy, high-end Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) solid-state drive (SSD) that performs well below expectations simply because it was installed in the wrong slot. If your shiny new PCI-Express […]

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