What Are PCIe SSDs and How to Use Them As a Boot Drive

is a solid-state drive form factor primarily used as an operating system boot solution in conventional rack and tower servers, or as small

2 B+M key SSD may support SATA bus or PCIe x2 bus If the SSD only supports SATA bus , its speed will not exceed 600 MB

m2 pcie slot A , 8–15, 2 of PCIe ×1, USB , IC and DP ×4 ; B , 12–19, SATA, PCIe ×2, USB and , audio, UIM, HSIC, SSIC, I2C and SMBus ; C · 16–23

m2 slot pc Two types of SSD Note: SSDs using the PCIe x4 bus use M-keys since it is the only one that supports PCIe x4 lanes