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Teamgroup Inc. via Amazon[amazon.com]has select TeamGroup MS30 M.2 2280 TLC SATA III Solid State Drives on sale from $20.99. Shipping is free with Prime or on $25+ orders.
Model: TEAMGROUP MS30 512GB with SLC Cache 3D NAND TLC M.2 2280 SATA III 6Gb/s Internal Solid State Drive SSD (Read/Write Speed up to 530/430 MB/s) Compatible with Laptop & PC Desktop TM8PS7512G0C101
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M.2 or SATA?
Both. M.2 is just the physical interface, SATA is the protocol.
There are M.2 NVMe (PCIe) drives and M.2 SATA drives.
Apart from some external SSD enclosures that support both, you can only use the appropriate type of M.2 SSD for the corresponding slot on the motherboard, NVMe is not backwards compatible with SATA or anything.
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M.2 or SATA?
This is a SATA drive with SATA limitations.
[Uses SATA III 6Gb/s transfer interface. Read/Write speed up to 530/430 MB/s]
[TEAMGROUP MS30 SATA M.2 SSD is B & M key SSD]
This may be fine IF it's what you are looking for.
If you want PCIe x3/x4 NVME performance, you do not want this drive.
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Tell me why an M.2 NAS is a bad idea
its not a bad idea, just hard to justify the price per GB in most cases given the bottleneck of current affordable network speeds. Unless you absolutely need faster random reads/writes over network or have a hard limit on power consumption, it can be a bit of a waste depending on desired capacity. If you just need something like up to 2TB, then it absolutely can make sense to just grab an old thin client or intel core T series powered USFF PC and a sata m.2 drive to stick in it.
For me, its getting harder to justify the cost of another always on device so I have settled for a basic external hard drive (soon to be replaced with an SSD for slight performance gain) plugged into my router and increasing local storage where possible and using much faster and cheaper external USB where it's not.
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M.2 NAS is amazing if you need it for your workflow.
For instance, if you have 10gb networking, you can ingest video footage onto the NAS and edit directly off the NAS. If your NAS is for archival storage, it doesn't make much sense economically.
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I just bought the 512gb one of these a couple of weeks ago to replace the 128 GB SSD for my 2015 Dell 2-in-1 (after wasting $25 on a M.2 NVMe drive ). The lesson being that if you have an older laptop with an M.2 2280 SSD ā then be sure to check to see if it is a SATA drive (like this one) or an NVMe drive before you replace it!
They are used on old laptops and PCs. Acer I still think uses them. It has something to do with the way WiFi works I think.
Can confirm. Currently using a team group hard drive for my Acer predator 500 from 2019. Other hard drives were not compatible for this one particular slot
Both. M.2 is just the physical interface, SATA is the protocol.
There are M.2 NVMe (PCIe) drives and M.2 SATA drives.
Apart from some external SSD enclosures that support both, you can only use the appropriate type of M.2 SSD for the corresponding slot on the motherboard, NVMe is not backwards compatible with SATA or anything.
So, if I have a OptiPlex 3060 and the spec sheet just says "M.2 for storage" can I physically use an M.2 NVMe IF I don't care about speeds or anything? The owner's manual says:
ā SATA AHCI, Up to 6 Gbps
ā PCIe 2.0 x 4 (NVMe SSD)
Up to 16Gbps.
ā SATA C20 SED SSD
I guess that means yes even if the spec sheet is not specific.
Been researching this stuff for months and just get more confused. I just want to get a new M.2 drive for it since the original one is a refurb with a lot of TBW. I'm using a 2TB MX500 2.5 SSD for the boot drive and don't care about speed on the M.2 slot. Thanks.
This is really only useful for some older laptops that had SATA m.2. I really don't think there's anything available nowadays that can use this, and it definitely isn't cost effective versus NVMe If you actually have the option between the two would you probably don't
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There are M.2 NVMe (PCIe) drives and M.2 SATA drives.
Apart from some external SSD enclosures that support both, you can only use the appropriate type of M.2 SSD for the corresponding slot on the motherboard, NVMe is not backwards compatible with SATA or anything.
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[Uses SATA III 6Gb/s transfer interface. Read/Write speed up to 530/430 MB/s]
[TEAMGROUP MS30 SATA M.2 SSD is B & M key SSD]
This may be fine IF it's what you are looking for.
If you want PCIe x3/x4 NVME performance, you do not want this drive.
Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank joeparker54
For me, its getting harder to justify the cost of another always on device so I have settled for a basic external hard drive (soon to be replaced with an SSD for slight performance gain) plugged into my router and increasing local storage where possible and using much faster and cheaper external USB where it's not.
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For instance, if you have 10gb networking, you can ingest video footage onto the NAS and edit directly off the NAS. If your NAS is for archival storage, it doesn't make much sense economically.
Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank Redmont
There are M.2 NVMe (PCIe) drives and M.2 SATA drives.
Apart from some external SSD enclosures that support both, you can only use the appropriate type of M.2 SSD for the corresponding slot on the motherboard, NVMe is not backwards compatible with SATA or anything.
ā SATA AHCI, Up to 6 Gbps
ā PCIe 2.0 x 4 (NVMe SSD)
Up to 16Gbps.
ā SATA C20 SED SSD
I guess that means yes even if the spec sheet is not specific.
Been researching this stuff for months and just get more confused. I just want to get a new M.2 drive for it since the original one is a refurb with a lot of TBW. I'm using a 2TB MX500 2.5 SSD for the boot drive and don't care about speed on the M.2 slot. Thanks.
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