SilverStone has quietly launched its new ECM23 expansion card. The diminutive component allows the user to connect a single speedy M.2 device to via a spare PCIe x4 slot in your motherboard. The ...

When it comes to PC storage, NVMe M.2 SSDs are significantly faster than their 2.5-inch SATA predecessors - and in 2023 they're often cheaper for the same capacity too. However, most PCs only come ...

Need an extra M2 SSD but cannot fir it? Well, Silverstone released "ECM21-E" that converts your PCI-Express 4.0 compatible M.2 SSD to PCI-Express x4 slot compatible. This product is a successor model ...

Some Mac Pro tower users--wanting to run MacOS--successfully used certain M2 SSD cards on PCIe adapters. But what works or not seems complicated, and Apple revised this machine several times. Is it ...

The new Sonnet McFiver brings internal SSD storage, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 10Gbps USB-C, and two SSD slots for high-speed storage in a single PCIe card for the Mac Pro or any Mac with an PCI-E enclosure ...

HighPoint Technologies has announced a new lineup of PCIe Gen 5 and Gen 4 x16 adapters featuring MCIO (Mini Cool Edge IO) and SlimSAS (Serial Attached SCSI) connectors, aimed at expanding the I/O ...

Solid State Drives continue to be one of the more sought after (and effective) upgrades for both desktop and mobile systems. But as drives have matured, and newer generations have been released, the ...

I love Retina iMacs. So much so that I took a chance and bought a used 2015 low-end Core i5 iMac with a 1TB Fusion Drive (which combines a 24GB NVMe SSD and a 1TB hard drive)—a machine that’s actually ...

March 6, 2025 — HighPoint Technologies announced the availability of customizable UBM (Universal Backplane Management)/VPP (Virtual Presence and Power) firmware packages for its PCIe Gen5 and 2nd-Gen ...

With PCIe 5.0 x4 being unveiled with Intel’s 12 and13th Gen Processors along with AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 series processors, compatible motherboards now support faster NVMe SSDs and we’re talking ...