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The photographs in this gallery were taken at a high quality and then cropped and scaled back down. 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,  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 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. 

The updated SKU now comes ith a heatsink, of course there's an even cheaper SKU available without one, if your motherboard has a proper M2 heatsink we'd absolutely recommend that, the SSD however does need some sort of cooling as it does run hot under heavy workloads.

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 NAND chips and a 2GB DRAM4 IC on this side.

The T500 PRO has a design that is pretty 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 flash packages, one DRAM package, and a Phison 5025-E25 NVMe controller.