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The following images were taken at high-resolution and then cropped and scaled-down. The camera used was a Canon DSLR shooting 12 MegaPixel photos.  Below photos; the tested unit; you should easily be able to place the M.2 unit into a compatible NVMe protocol motherboard. Most motherboards chipsets support it. You should, however, check out with the motherboard manufacturer if you have an x4 lane PCIe Gen 3.0 version with NVMe protocol support. Of course, these SSDs are backward compatible thus PCIe Gen 2.0 will work as well, however, the interconnect is halved in bandwidth per generation and that thus has an extensive effect on performance. The latest Windows 10 iteration has an up-to-date NVMe 1.3 protocol driver natively, so you do not necessarily need to install a 3rd party driver.   

The 500GB model has a DRAM chip (SKhynix) as well as four NAND chips (Toshiba 96L/128GB). The SSD also has an SLC partition to speed up writes ergo the 500GB storage size as opposed to 512GB. Toshiba makes use of its own proprietary controller. Little to nothing is known about it.