mPCIe Combo and M.2 SSD?????

[braveheart0707]

what is the deal with those? it comes with a couple of the ASUS ROG series boards.

And it says"The compact but versatile mPCIe Combo II further future-proofs your build with M.2 (NGFF, Next Generation Form Factor) connectivity for SSDs. M.2 is a fast and power-efficient standard that aims to replace mPCIe and mSATA, designed to optimize SSD performance. mPCIe Combo II works with your high speed M.2 SSDs and makes the most of their potential, helping you reduce load times to run your OS and games even faster"

First i thought mPCIe combo is just a separate slot where ASUS puts wifi and bluetooth combo cards, and saves users 1 free PCI e slot, but then i read on, and this M.2 SSD thing confuses me....

Is this important to get?

 

[flamenko]

No. The M.2 mPCIe combo only works at SATA level (NOT native PCIe) and can reproduce speeds of MAX just over 500MB/s as can any SATA 3 SSD. There is also a hiccup with boards (as we have) like the Maximus VI Extreme where the M.2 PCIe SSD must be very small because of the plavement of the adapter. For 99.999% of the world this will be a useless add on IMHO.

 

[braveheart0707]

No. The M.2 mPCIe combo only works at SATA level (NOT native PCIe) and can reproduce speeds of MAX just over 500MB/s as can any SATA 3 SSD. There is also a hiccup with boards (as we have) like the Maximus VI Extreme where the M.2 PCIe SSD must be very small because of the plavement of the adapter. For 99.999% of the world this will be a useless add on IMHO.

ah i see, so i can just ignore it then