I’m planning on giving an older machine a small upgrade with an SSD, but since that machine does not have an m.2 port, I was thinking about buying the cheapest PCIe adapter I could find. Besides the obvious stuff like ports, PCIe gen and lane count, is there anything I should look out for? Specifically regarding Linux?

  • phx@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Maybe let’s start with what the board+CPU is and we can make more informed recommendations. I do tend to agree with many posters in that in boards that don’t already have an NVMe slot, adding a card for NVMe versus performance gains (against an SSD) may not be worth it.