Asus horny fixed this nerve-racking PC constructing set

Why enact some motherboards reach with a extra M.2 screws? On story of which that it’s possible you’ll possibly possibly be virtually assured to lose knowing to be one of many tiny-sized retention screws while putting on your SSD.

Major motherboard maker Asus, then again, curiously bought in downhearted health of losing but but any other metal screw into the bowels of a brand contemporary PC and has introduced in a straight forward plastic retention clip to retain a drive in set. 

The retention clip appears to be like to be integrated into frequent M.2 mounts, but reasonably than the use of a jeweler’s screwdriver to rigorously install it, you merely flip a plastic latch to lock the drive in set. That it’s possible you’ll moreover see the clips below or to leer it in action, talk over with the Asus ROG Twitter feed.

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Let’s horny inform the exchange is welcome, as searching for to install that M.2 mount with dry-chapped fingers and 4 cups of espresso nearly forever ends in taking part in hide-and-learn with the screw. The video exhibiting off the contemporary retention system used to be section of the firm’s Z590 board delivery so we’ll seemingly see it there first, but we’d demand it to roll out assorted boards too.

Plastic M.2 retention clips don’t appear to be no doubt contemporary, and OEMs contain executed this for years. Asus itself has susceptible a plastic zip-tie cherish mount on its vertical-mount M.2 slots. Finally, this is a welcome exchange for its ROG line of motherboards, and we hope assorted motherboard makers undertake identical approaches to mounting M.2 drives.

The sole thing that can moreover impression putting in an M.2 much less nerve-racking is to give up hiding every drive below an aluminum duvet that requires you to disassemble half your system horny to secure admission to the drive.

Surely one of founding fathers of hardcore tech reporting, Gordon has been covering PCs and parts since 1998.