I've been using OPNsense tonnes lately, mainly as the gateway to my home lab shenanigans. Most of this has been accomplished ...

For the record, MicroSD Express already supports NVMe drives at PCIe 3.0 1x speed (SD 7.0 standard), so this is an adapter to use a SSD in m.2 2230 form factor instead of a MicroSD Express card.

One immediate question is whether the Switch 2's MicroSD slot will be able to power an M.2 drive. NVNT says only low-voltage, low-power M.2 2230 drives will work and that the poss ...

The SD Association released the SD 7.1 standard with support for cards compliant with the microSD Express standard, enabling SSD-like performance on microSD cards by using a PCIe/NVMe interface, and ...

There are a few restrictions. First, you need a PCIe 4.0 or Gen 4 drive or better. This interface allows for SSD speeds up to 7,500MB/s, which is a huge improvement over the 3,500MB/s for Gen 3 M ...