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Technically yes, but it's only a PCIe 1x Gen2 slot, so only 500MB/s of bandwidth (4x Gen3 is ~4GB/s). You'd be better off with a USB 3.0 to M.2 adapter.
by elFarto 7y ago
Technically yes, but it's only a PCIe 1x Gen2 slot, so only 500MB/s of bandwidth (4x Gen3 is ~4GB/s). You'd be better off with a USB 3.0 to M.2 adapter.
- londons_explore 7y agoThe bandwidth works out about the same, but the USB controller and AHCI controllers will add quite some latency (and CPU load). I'd like to see benchmarks, but my guess is single-thread random 4k read performance will more than double via PCI Express rather than the USB.