M.2 SSD Drives save valuable real estate in your system by fixing directly to the motherboard as a small card. Not only does it save space in your case for other storage options, but being directly connected to the PCIe lanes, it also gives a nifty performance boost as well. There are currently two types of M.2 SSD Drives on the market:

M.2 SSD (AHCI) this mirrors the current technology of the 2.5" SSD Drives commonly found in many systems and as such, is more compatible and gives similar read/write speeds to traditional SSD drives. Around 550mb/s Read and 550mb/s Write is about as fast as it gets.

M.2 SSD (NVMe) Has been developed from the ground up to optimise performance for this application. It gives much improved speeds over SSD / M.2 AHCI and some of the high end ones are giving 3200mb/s Read and 1700mb/s Write

Note We select M.2 2280 / NVME SSD Drives from the following top brand manufacturers depending on stock availability at the time: