*** Micro ATX X99! ***

[Gunslinger]

The M.2 port on the mATX board seems rather short. I cant find any M.2 drives you stock that would fit.

Are you planning to get shorter ones in ?

the manual describes it as "M.2 optimized for WLAN"

and refers to it as "M.2 Socket Slot E" which makes me think of KeyID as explained here.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.2

IT looks like a Type 2230 (22mm wide, 30mm long) module, so no SSDs I know of available will fit, that really is very poor, and shows exactly what board manufacturers think of this crippled release, how much of an issue would it have been to raise that battery off the board and allow the m.2 drive to extend under it, or vice-versa

 

[Orford]

Random quote generator from the customer review shows how impressed the customer is with the board and it's M.2 slot.

He's bedding it!

The quote generator missed the "in" at the end of the sentence.


http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-628-AS&tool=3


Wrong board from OP but while we're on the subject of how good or bad M.2 slots are, I'd thought I'd share what I spotted.

(Edit:It's been fixed)

 

[Gunslinger]

The thing with a lot of these boards, perhaps not that £359 asus one, is you can't use the M.2 socket and the SATA Express together, plus, m.2 specifications calls for x4 PCIe speed, yet intel have crippled it to x2 whilst Apple and aaliek get x4 in their laptops and netbooks, and the only reason we have a x4 drive (samsung one) is because someone bought them and released them to the general public as a re-seller, carrying the warranty themselves, if they haddnt, they'd still be hidden away in back room OEM deals