Can you hot-plug an M.2 SSD?

Question

Solid State Drives

In general, now we have an external hard drive, we upload videos there and then mount it from an external hard drive (it’s more convenient, because 3 computers are in different places), and so the speed through usb 3.0 is correspondingly small, 4k 240 bits, nevertheless, it slows down prime minister. We want to take a 2TB ssd for fast work, but through usb 3.0, I think the speed will not be much higher. Therefore, such a question, I want to buy an 80 cm ssd m.2 extension cable on alik, take it out of the case and just connect the ssd to a hot one, is it possible? There are no such problems with sata, this is understandable, but how will ssd m.2 behave in such cases?

Answer 1

Yes, you can. M2 is PCI and is hot pluggable.
Therefore, on the M2 connector, the contacts are of different lengths, take a closer look.

Answer 2

Use USB 3.2 version as the Thunderbolt option. If it's not about a laptop, just buy a board.

Answer 3

As far as I know, you can't

Answer 4

In theory it should be ok, but I'd rather look at all sorts of solutions with pushing m2 into a protective case.
For example, something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08H6QPW2P
The main thing is to have usb 3.2 / usb 4 / thunderbolt
For a stationary user, you can try something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/ gp/product/B084H5ZKPT
Or this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089VR1CJG