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Do Samsung NVMe™ M.2 SSDs work with any M.2 slot?
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There are different types of M.2 slots. A “B-Key” enables SATA or PCIe NVMe™ SSDs using up to 2 PCIe lanes, while an “M-Key” enables NVMe™ SSDs with the use of up to 4 PCIe lanes. Performance of PCIe NVMe™ M.2 SSDs leveraging PCIe x4 lanes is roughly twice as high as with PCIe x2 lanes, so the vas...
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How should a Samsung NVMe™ M.2 SSD be installed on a PC? |
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Installation of Samsung NVMe™ M.2 SSDs is essentially plug-and-play. Simply insert the NVMe™ SSD in an M.2 PCIe slot, tighten the SSD in place with the screw and spacer provided by your mainboard manufacturer, and boot up your system from an external source before proceeding with a fresh install of...
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Can I plug a Samsung NVMe™ M.2 SSD in a traditional PCIe slot?
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Yes. Many add-in-card adapters exist, but for optimal performance and compatibility Samsung recommends using an original M.2 slot for your Samsung NVMe™ SSD....
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Can Samsung NVMe™ M.2 SSDs be RAIDed? |
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Yes. Samsung NVMe™ M.2 SSDs can be grouped into a RAID formation. Please ensure that your mainboard has a sufficient number of NVMe™ M.2 slots and that sufficient PCIe lanes are available for maximal performance....
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What is the difference between a Samsung NVMe™ M.2 SSD and a regular SSD?
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NVMe™ SSDs leverage a new type of interface and protocol – Non-Volatile Memory Express – to break through the bottleneck limitations of SATA based systems. Concretely, this means that whereas SATA SSDs’ maximal performance does not exceed 550MB/s, NVMe™ SSDs can achieve transfer speeds of about 3,5...
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What is an AIC? |
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AIC stands for Add-in-Card and it is essentially an adapter that allows connection of a Samsung NVMe™ M.2 SSD to a standard PCIe x16 slot, instead of an M.2 interface....
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What is PCIe?
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PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) is a well-established and versatile interface. Because of its prevalence (used for Graphic Cards etc.) and high data throughput capability PCIe was adopted by the storage industry to replace the much older and constrained SATA interface for the next ...
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What is M.2? |
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M.2 is a form-factor describing the physical dimensions and connector used for M.2 SSDs. It was primarily designed to incorporate the new PCIe interface and NVMe™ protocol in SSDs, and to reduce the overall footprint of storage media from the former HDD based 2.5 inch standard dimension....
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What is an “M-Key”? What is a “B-Key”?
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“M” and “B” are different connector types for M.2 slots. A “B-Key” enables SATA or PCIe NVMe™ SSDs using up to 2 PCIe lanes, and an “M-Key” enables using up to 4 PCIe lanes. Please note that Samsung NVMe™ SSDs use the “M-Key” (to leverage PCIe x4 for maximum performance) and cannot be plugged into...
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When I measured my device’s performance using Samsung Magician, it is slower than the specification. What should I do? |
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1. If you have a SATA SSD, make sure that it is correctly connected to a SATA3 port. You can check this via the Interface menu on the Magician Home screen. 2. If you have an NVMe SSD, check whether both the NVMe Interface and PCIe® 3.0, x4 Lane are supported and correctly connected. You can check ...
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