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You're right, it looks like most of the Skylake launch boards in Anandtech's review are M.2. Somewhat disappointing. I still suspect M.2 is obsolete in the long
by cdr 11y ago
You're right, it looks like most of the Skylake launch boards in Anandtech's review are M.2. Somewhat disappointing. I still suspect M.2 is obsolete in the long run, but seemingly not for this generation of Skylake.
There are at least a couple boards I see with a dedicated PCIE 3.0 x4 slot and U.2 support, but they're the highest end and I'm sure not cheap.
You can connect a 2.5" U.2 drive (Intel 750) to M.2, but it's obviously going to reduce performance to M.2 speeds.
- wtallis 11y agoM.2 supports the same performance as U.2. Both connectors allow for up to 4 lanes of PCIe. Some lower-cost implementations of M.2 only provide 2 lanes, and it also can provide SATA signals instead of PCIe, but with Intel's desktop chipsets finally getting a bandwidth upgrade everybody is going to be implementing M.2 with four lanes going forward.
- cdr 11y agoAh, I guess I'm used to the Haswell DMI bus speed still, which severely limited M.2 speed even if it was 3.0 and 4 lanes. I guess that's probably not the case with Skylake.