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> I wonder why there was never a standardized PCIE 'card' format? Seems like the perfect thing for extra storage with NVME being so common these days. The best
by cesarb 4y ago
> I wonder why there was never a standardized PCIE 'card' format? Seems like the perfect thing for extra storage with NVME being so common these days.
The best thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. The closest analogue is the ExpressCard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExpressCard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExpressCard), but there's also the internal-only M.2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.2), which is the most common non-server format for NVMe; mini-PCIe (similar to M.2, used mostly for wireless); SD express (SD cards, but with PCIe); and CFexpress (CompactFlash cards, but with PCIe).
- krolden 4y agoI have a thinkpad p71 with an Expresscard x1 slot and can't figure out what to use it for since the laptop has so much existing IO out of the box. It would have been nice if framework adopted this existing standard and started making their own express card modules instead of making their own USBC thing that doesn't fit in any other laptop.