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Me and a couple buds were joking around over a couple dead boards and got to talking about SSDs. The fact that we even use SATA SSDs is a bit overkill already, but are there any confirmed reports of someone using an M.2/NGFF SSD in an Xbox? Sure, a decent sized drive is probably worth more than a fully kitted out console, but it sounds like a fun idea. 

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M.2 isn't faster than sata as it's just a connection. NVMe is basically connecting the ssd directly to the PCIe bus via the m.2 port and is much faster but is not the same as M.2. There are plenty of regular (non-NVMe) sata drives that connect via M.2 and aren't a bit faster than the same drive connected to a sata III port. 
You won't get anything faster than a regular sata hdd on the xbox because no matter what... you're connecting it to PATA/IDE. 

There is probably an adapter or series of adapters that might make it technically possible... but there is just no reason to do it. 

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21 minutes ago, OGXbox Admin said:

but there is just no reason to do it. 

FOR BLOODY SCIENCE M8 

Actually I happened on the idea because I accidentally found an M.2>SATA adapter. 

I’m curious to see, though, if an NVMe would function at all, less than to see any performance benefit. There is, as you’ve mentioned in other posts, hardly even a difference in performance for ANY data-based disk because the bottleneck here is very very severe. I wonder that daisy-chaining adapters in the necessary manner wouldn’t introduce more latency in the first place.

But that’s what we all said to the guys who first brought up the idea of installing SSDs and water cooling in the first place, no? :P

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