https://mwitkow.me/tags/hardware/Recent content in Hardware on mwitkow@'s cornerHugo -- gohugo.ioen-UKSun, 17 May 2020 13:29:04 +0100https://mwitkow.me/posts/2020-05-17_ssd_wifi_replacement/Sun, 17 May 2020 13:29:04 +0100https://mwitkow.me/posts/2020-05-17_ssd_wifi_replacement/In this blog post I go into the details of how to add an NVME SSD to an old-ish Intel NUC by replacing the built-in WiFi card that sits in the mini PCI-Express port. The goal was to increase the IOPS performance of my media server from ~50 writes/sec to ~15000 writes/sec and make the whole system more responsive. Background In the distant past, my media server was run on a Raspberry pi 3 b+, with a 2TB drive (Seagate 2TB Black STEA2000400) connected over USB 2.