The Framework Laptop 16 Just Got A Modular Gadget That Enables Quadruple Ssds

The astir eager laptop ever made conscionable sewage a long-promised modular upgrade. Starting today, you tin net $39 to adhd 2 different M.2 slots to nan Framework Laptop 16 — letting you perchance proscription astir an AI accelerator, an eGPU adapter, aliases a expansive afloat of 4 coagulated authorities retention sticks for ludicrous capacity.

As Framework’s blog station points out, nan caller “Dual M.2 Adapter” is Framework’s first caller modular constituent since motorboat that takes advantage of nan Laptop 16’s ample explanation bay astir back. At launch, you only had 2 options: a Radeon RX 7700S discrete graphics insubstantial for different money, aliases a mostly quiet bay that only contained fans.

But now, you tin adhd nan Dual M.2 Adapter to that mostly quiet bay to caller an further brace of M.2 2280, 2260, 2240 aliases 2230 modules, pinch 4 lanes of PCIe 4.0 each, connected apical of nan transcript SSD slots (M.2 2280 and M.2 2230) that recreation pinch nan laptop to statesman with.

With existent instrumentality SSD capacities topping retired astatine astir 8TB (2280) and 2TB (2230) respectively, that intends you tin theoretically cart astir 26TB of retention astatine once... not counting immoderate 1TB Framework Expansion Cards you instrumentality into nan sides of nan laptop, aliases immoderate elephantine SD cards you plug into nan $25 full-size SD insubstantial modules that Framework yet released this fall.

(With 2TB SD cards connected nan market, I conjecture nan existent maximum capacity of nan Framework Laptop 16 is now 38TB.)

And while those who bought nan Radeon discrete GPU won’t beryllium tin to return advantage without swapping retired that module, swaps are thankfully speedy and easy:

In summation to nan adapter, Framework has swapped retired nan Framework Laptop 16’s liquid metallic cooling for Honeywell PTM7958 thermal paste, and will thief proviso that for immoderate customer who asks; while Framework characterizes this arsenic a alteration to spread imaginable “performance degradation complete time,” I decidedly encountered uncomfortable levels of powerfulness and instrumentality sound correct distant successful my reappraisal and semipermanent tests.

Find overmuch astir Framework’s caller updates successful its afloat blog station — for illustration nan caller “Framework Mystery Boxes” tinkerers tin bargain to effort retired an assortment of random, perchance non-functional parts that users personification returned to nan company.