Icy Dock, a company dedicated mainly to peripherals, has released the ToughArmor MB842MP-B, an adapter designed to connect to a PCI Express slot on our motherboard and house two M.2 SSD drives. that can be installed and removed externally. Although this adapter does not support hot extraction, it does prevent us from having to disassemble our equipment.
It is an intermediate option to having to use external drives –whose interfaces may or may not be the fastest that our team supports— when it comes to having to iterate between different storage units that we do not want to have permanently connected to our computer.
This, for example, would also allow us to save space when making backup copies, Well, an M.2 SSD drive. takes up a fraction of the space of, say, a 2.5-inch hard drive, and even less than a 3.5-inch hard drive, Therefore, it allows us greater storage density in those cases where it is necessary.
This adapter will be available not only in a two-drive model, but in another single-drive model, with prices of $249.99 and $105.50 respectively.
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Jordi Bercial
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