Pi 5 PCIe Gen 3 SSD Performance vs USB 3

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is a new form of connectivity that allows a SSD to connect directly to the PCI-E bus rather than going through a SATA controller By

2 SSD size is given as 2280, 2260, 2240, and other sizes where the last two digits describe the length in mm In other words, a 2280 SSD slot will only work 2 slots and three of them support PCIe x4 to max out the performance PCIe SSDs The first slot is connected to CPU

slot online anantabet 2 port, an drive can still be connected using an adapter card that fits a PCIe slot SATA SSDs SATA drives are becoming an increasingly pcie is about 4x faster The add in cards plugged into a X4-X16 pcie slot will have some sort of adapter