Explaining M.2 PCIe adapter cards, and USB enclosures, that can be used to access an M.2 SSD when it cannot be plugged into a motherboard slot.

My followup video on "Free Drive Cloning Applications" is here:    • Free Drive Cloning Applications  

You can learn more about SSDs, and their interfaces, formfactors and technologies in my video here:    • Explaining SSDs: Form Factors, Interf...  

And I have a video all about PCIe slots here:    • Explaining PCIe Slots  

The CrystalDisk Mark test software I used is free to download from: https://crystalmark.info/en/download/

The products I purchased and tested in the video were as follows:

Glotrends M.2 PCIe NVMe 4.0/3.0 Adapter (for a x4, x8 or x16 PCIe slot) Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3OQiLof & Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3s84JGI This is the PCIe x4 model.

Glotrends M.2 PCIe NVMe 4.0/3.0 Adapter (for a x1, x4, x8 or x16 PCIe slot) Amazon US: https://amzn.to/44gBhM1 & UK: https://amzn.to/3OM9ugW This is the PCIe x1 model.

Orico M.2 USB enclosure. Amazon US:https://amzn.to/3KJ84Cq & Amazon UK:
https://amzn.to/3sdTxsf

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:52 M.2, SATA & PCIe
07:19 PCIe Card Tests
11:20 USB Enclosure
15:17 Cloning Tools

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