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  • Gurfaild@feddit.detoMemes@lemmy.mloof
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    9 months ago

    In the 2000s, some electronics stores where I lived had “jukeboxes” with headphones and a barcode scanner, so you could listen to 30-second snippets of the songs on an album before buying it.





  • Adapter cards for one PCIe M.2 SSD are completely passive and work on every motherboard with PCIe. If the card has multiple M.2 slots, you need either a PCIe switch on the card or a motherboard that supports PCIe bifurcation.

    I upgraded an old machine that doesn’t have PCIe 3.0 or M.2 slots with a Samsung 950 Pro in an adapter card and I haven’t noticed any issues - the SSD only runs at PCIe 2.0 speeds, but that’s fast enough for me.

    Sometimes plugging a PCIe card into one slot will cause fewer or no lanes to be allocated to another slot, so you should check your motherboard’s manual before buying a new card.