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August 17th, 2018 06:00

XPS 8930, SSD M.2 mount vs PCIe x4 slot

Anyone know why Dell charges a little less for an SSD using a PCIe slot and an adapter card than the same SSD going into the M.2 port on the motherboard? The SSD are the same capacity in both cases and otherwise typical x4 PCIe/NVMe devices. Aside from an x4 slot mounted SSD possibly staying a little cooler than a motherboard M.2 SSD are there other reasons for choosing one over the other?

 

 

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August 17th, 2018 14:00

The pricing could be for any reason from Vendors to markets etc. In terms of the difference between the 2, I'd use the m.2 MOBO version as your system will look for that first during boot and sometimes the BIOS/UEFI has an issue with PCIe mounted drives. Also it frees up your PCIe slot for something else.
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