If you need a new internal storage device, and have an M.2 slot on your motherboard, chances are we have a drive to suit your needs. Whether you're expanding your laptop's storage or looking for a high-performance PCIe Gen4 drive for gaming and editing, you can find them all right here at Ebuyer at fantastic prices.
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M.2 Solid State Drives (30 products)
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WD Green SN350 240GB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 240GB
- Read Speed: 2400 MBps
- Write Speed: 900 MBps
- Type: M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 3 Year Warranty
£
24.99
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£ 20.82 ex.
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Patriot P400 Lite 250GB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 250GB
- Read Speed: 3200MB/s
- Write Speed: 1300MB/s
- Type: M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 5 Year Warranty
£
29.99
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£ 24.99 ex.
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WD Green SN350 250GB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 250GB
- Read Speed: 2400 MBps
- Write Speed: 1500 MBps
- Type: M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 3 Year Warranty
£
38.49
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£ 32.07 ex.
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Patriot P310 240GB M.2 SSD
- 240GB
- Read Speed: 1700MB/s
- Write Speed: 1000MB/s
- Type: M.2 2280 Form Factor
- 3 Year Warranty
£
17.99
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£ 14.99 ex.
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Kingston NV2 500GB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 500GB
- Read Speed: 3500 MBps
- Write Speed: 2100 MBps
- Type: M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 3 Year Warranty
£
38.99
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£ 32.49 ex.
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WD Blue SN580 500GB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 500GB
- Read Speed: 4000 MBps
- Write Speed: 3600 MBps
- Type: M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 5 Year Warranty
£
49.00
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£ 40.83 ex.
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WD Blue SA510 250GB M.2 SATA SSD
- Capacity: 250GB
- Read Speed: 555 MBps
- Write Speed: 440 MBps
- Type: M.2 SATA
- Warranty: 5 Year Warranty
£
42.99
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£ 35.82 ex.
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Crucial P3 Plus 500GB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 500GB
- Read Speed: 4700 MBps
- Write Speed: 1900 MBps
- Type: M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 5 Year Warranty
£
60.48
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£ 50.40 ex.
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WD Blue SA510 500GB M.2 SATA SSD
- Capacity: 500GB
- Read Speed: 560 MBps
- Write Speed: 510 MBps
- Type: M.2 SATA
- Warranty: 5 Year Warranty
£
49.98
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£ 41.65 ex.
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WD Blue SN580 250GB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 250GB
- Read Speed: 4000 MBps
- Write Speed: 2000 MBps
- Type: M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 5 Year Warranty
£
46.98
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£ 39.15 ex.
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Kingston NV2 250GB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 250GB
- Read Speed: 3000 MBps
- Write Speed: 1300 MBps
- Type: M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 3 Year Warranty
£
29.00
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£ 24.16 ex.
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WD Green SN350 500GB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 500GB
- Read Speed: 2400 MBps
- Write Speed: 1500 MBps
- Type: M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 3 Year Warranty
£
44.99
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£ 37.49 ex.
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Kingston NV2 1TB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 1TB
- Read Speed: 3500 MBps
- Write Speed: 2100 MBps
- Type: M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 3 Year Warranty
£
59.98
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£ 49.98 ex.
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Samsung 980 500GB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 500GB
- Read Speed: 3100 MBps
- Write Speed: 2600 MBps
- Type: M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 5 Year Warranty
£
51.99
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£ 43.32 ex.
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Crucial P3 500GB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 500GB
- Read Speed: 3500 MBps
- Write Speed: 1900 MBps
- Type: M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 5 Year Warranty
£
53.49
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£ 44.57 ex.
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WD Green SN350 240GB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 240GB
- Read Speed: 2400 MBps
- Write Speed: 900 MBps
- Type: M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 3 Year Warranty
SKU: WDS240G2G0C
£
24.99
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£ 20.82 ex.
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Patriot P400 Lite 250GB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 250GB
- Read Speed: 3200MB/s
- Write Speed: 1300MB/s
- Type: M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 5 Year Warranty
SKU: P400LP250GM28H
£
29.99
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£ 24.99 ex.
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WD Green SN350 250GB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 250GB
- Read Speed: 2400 MBps
- Write Speed: 1500 MBps
- Type: M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 3 Year Warranty
SKU: WDS250G2G0C
£
38.49
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£ 32.07 ex.
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Patriot P310 240GB M.2 SSD
- 240GB
- Read Speed: 1700MB/s
- Write Speed: 1000MB/s
- Type: M.2 2280 Form Factor
- 3 Year Warranty
SKU: P310P240GM28
£
17.99
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£ 14.99 ex.
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Kingston NV2 500GB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 500GB
- Read Speed: 3500 MBps
- Write Speed: 2100 MBps
- Type: M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 3 Year Warranty
SKU: SNV2S/500G
£
38.99
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£ 32.49 ex.
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WD Blue SN580 500GB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 500GB
- Read Speed: 4000 MBps
- Write Speed: 3600 MBps
- Type: M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 5 Year Warranty
SKU: WDS500G3B0E
£
49.00
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£ 40.83 ex.
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WD Blue SA510 250GB M.2 SATA SSD
- Capacity: 250GB
- Read Speed: 555 MBps
- Write Speed: 440 MBps
- Type: M.2 SATA
- Warranty: 5 Year Warranty
SKU: WDS250G3B0B
£
42.99
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£ 35.82 ex.
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Crucial P3 Plus 500GB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 500GB
- Read Speed: 4700 MBps
- Write Speed: 1900 MBps
- Type: M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 5 Year Warranty
SKU: CT500P3PSSD8
£
60.48
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£ 50.40 ex.
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WD Blue SA510 500GB M.2 SATA SSD
- Capacity: 500GB
- Read Speed: 560 MBps
- Write Speed: 510 MBps
- Type: M.2 SATA
- Warranty: 5 Year Warranty
SKU: WDS500G3B0B
£
49.98
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£ 41.65 ex.
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WD Blue SN580 250GB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 250GB
- Read Speed: 4000 MBps
- Write Speed: 2000 MBps
- Type: M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 5 Year Warranty
SKU: WDS250G3B0E
£
46.98
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£ 39.15 ex.
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Kingston NV2 250GB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 250GB
- Read Speed: 3000 MBps
- Write Speed: 1300 MBps
- Type: M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 3 Year Warranty
SKU: SNV2S/250G
£
29.00
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£ 24.16 ex.
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WD Green SN350 500GB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 500GB
- Read Speed: 2400 MBps
- Write Speed: 1500 MBps
- Type: M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 3 Year Warranty
SKU: WDS500G2G0C
£
44.99
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£ 37.49 ex.
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Kingston NV2 1TB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 1TB
- Read Speed: 3500 MBps
- Write Speed: 2100 MBps
- Type: M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 3 Year Warranty
SKU: SNV2S/1000G
£
59.98
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£ 49.98 ex.
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Samsung 980 500GB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 500GB
- Read Speed: 3100 MBps
- Write Speed: 2600 MBps
- Type: M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 5 Year Warranty
SKU: MZ-V8V500BW
£
51.99
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£ 43.32 ex.
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Crucial P3 500GB M.2 SSD
- Capacity: 500GB
- Read Speed: 3500 MBps
- Write Speed: 1900 MBps
- Type: M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 (NVMe)
- Warranty: 5 Year Warranty
SKU: CT500P3SSD8
£
53.49
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£ 44.57 ex.
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What is a M.2 SSD?
2.5" SATA solid-state drives outclass all mechanical hard drives when it comes to speed. However, their performance is limited by the decades-old SATA interface, which is capped to 600MB/s. What's more, 2.5" SATA SSDs require separate cables for data and power, making them a bit fiddly to install for the novice computer user.
M.2 solid-state drives, on the other hand, don't need to be mounted in a laptop or computer case's 2.5" drive bay. They're incredibly small and install directly into a M.2 slot on your motherboard - no cables required. With an M.2 SSD, you can get terabytes' worth of internal storage in a device roughly equivalent in size to a stick of gum. This makes M.2 SSDs ideal in thin-and-light laptops (in turn allowing for bigger batteries), small form-factor desktops with little to no 2.5" drive bays, and for those who favour minimal cable management.
It's worth noting M.2 simply denotes the form-factor of a solid-state drive - not a drive's interface protocol. Although it's not common, you could, for instance, have a solid-state drive in the M.2 form-factor which uses the SATA interface for data transfer. For those who're after the fastest performance possible, then you'll want to look at NVMe M.2 SSDs, as opposed to SATA M.2 SSDs and SATA 2.5" SSDs.
What is NVMe?
Non-volatile memory express, or NVMe for short, is an interface protocol built from the ground up to capitalise on high-bandwidth, low-latency flash storage devices, such as solid-state drives. With NVMe, data's transferred via your motherboard's lightning-fast PCIe bus - the same bus used by a dedicated graphics card.
As a much newer interface - one that wasn't designed with old, antiquated hard drive technology in mind - the capabilities of NVMe dwarf SATA. Even your budget, run-of-the-mill NVMe SSDs boast speeds in the thousands of MB/s, with the latest PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs hitting blisteringly-fast speeds in excess of 10,000MB/s. That's over sixteen times faster than SATA-powered SSDs, never mind HDDs.
Is a M.2 SSD better than a 2.5" SSD?
In short, yes. But to reiterate, M.2 denotes a drive's form-factor. It doesn't describe its performance. For that, you'll have to look at its interface protocol: SATA, PCIe Gen 3, PCIe Gen4, and so on. Most M.2 SSDs happen to be NVMe SSDs, however.
The small, compact size of a M.2 SSD will allow you to save some space in your computer case. And slotting your solid-state drive right into your motherboard removes the need for excess cables, too, making cable management all that easier.
Invest in a high-performance NVMe M.2 SSD and you'll definitely notice an improvement in your system's overall responsiveness, or 'snappiness'. An NVMe SSD is even better than a SATA SSD (which is already vastly superior to a HDD) at all those storage-related workloads, from hefty file transfers to boot and loading times.
M.2 SSDs have quickly become the de-factor standard storage solution and their prices are continually falling. Browse Ebuyer's range of M.2 SSDs and you'll find you can pick up a basic, yet fast, 1TB PCIe Gen3 NVMe SSD for under ~£50. That's more than enough capacity and speed for most peoples' needs.
How to choose a M.2 SSD
First, check what M.2 SSDs your motherboard's M.2 slots support - or if your motherboard has any M.2 slots at all. A PCIe Gen5 drive requires a PCIe Gen5 compatible motherboard to run at its highest rated speed, for example. That said, PCIe NVMe M.2 drives are technically both forwards and backwards compatible. You can run a PCIe Gen4 drive in a PCIe Gen3 slot, though it'll accordingly be capped to PCIe Gen3 performance. Intel and AMD's budget-oriented motherboards tend to feature at least one M.2 slot, while their premium, high-end models come equipped with several M.2 slots.
It's also worth thinking about whether you really need the latest-and-greatest PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD, or if a slower, cheaper model will serve you well enough. On paper, the ultra-fast speeds of a PCIe Gen5 drive are undoubtedly impressive. When it comes to the drive's real-world performance, however, these speeds may only shave a few seconds off a game's loading times compared to a PCIe Gen4 drive. And if you're only using a computer for day-to-day tasks, like web browsing and word processing, an entry-level model with speeds around the 2,000 - 3,000MB/s mark will still be plenty fast.
M.2 Solid State Drives at Ebuyer
Here at Ebuyer, we stock an enormous range of M.2 solid-state drives from the best, most reputable brands, including Western Digital, Samsung, Crucial, and more. Spread the cost of your purchase with our flexible finance offers. And if you want your new M.2 SSD by tomorrow, next-day delivery is also available.