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The photographs in this gallery were taken at a high quality and then cropped and scaled back down. The photographs were taken with a Canon DSLR camera with a resolution of 12 MegaPixel. You should have no trouble installing the M.2 unit onto a motherboard that supports the NVMe v1.4 protocol. It is supported by the vast majority of motherboard chipsets. To be sure, contact the motherboard maker to see if your motherboard is equipped with an x4-lane PCIe Gen 4.0 interface and a CPU that is compatible with it.

Of course, these PCIe gen 4.0 SSDs are backward compatible; thus, PCIe 3.0 will work as well; however, the interconnect (PCI slot) is halved in bandwidth by generation, and that this has a considerable effect on performance. The latest Windows 10 and soon 11 iteration has an up-to-date NVMe 1.4 protocol driver natively, so it is unnecessary to install a 3rd party driver. You are strongly recommended to have the latest BIOS firmware of your motherboard up to date though.

Typically we advise you to seat the SSD under a motherboard heatsink and hide it away. Not only does that look cool, but it also keeps it cool much better. The compact M.2 2280 form factor ensures compatibility with the next-generation desktop and mobile platforms that support the M.2 PCIe slot and interface.

The 80 on 2280 is short for 80mm, aka, the PCB length, and 2280, you guessed it now .. 22mm for its width. It really is that simple. It has just two NAND chips and a 1GB DRAM4 IC on this side.

The P5 Plus has a design that is virtually identical to the original P5. Additionally, it has a physical similarity to the previous model in that it is a preferred single-sided architecture that includes two flash packages, one DRAM package, and a proprietary NVMe controller.