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   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 21:05:34 +0100, pinnerite wrote:   
      
   > I have a Gigabyte miniATX motherboard with 4 SATA HDD sockets.   
   > I wondered if I could replace the hard drive with an M.2 SSD provided I   
   > could find some kind of adapter.   
      
   Probably not unless you have a PCIe slot. When I upgrade an older Dell it   
   only had one PCIe and that was used for wifi. I went with a SATA SSD.   
   Unlike HDDs a SSD can make use of the full transfer speed of SATA 3 so it   
   was an improvement but falls short of NMVe. For what I do the speed   
   difference is most noticeable on a reboot but I rarely reboot.   
      
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