Anyone knows what is the m.2 slot for in the back of motherboard ?

[fm365]

I found a m.2 slot in the back of motherboard in my readynas rn424, I tried to insert a nvme disk into it , and restart readynas OS , but I did not found out any information in web UI console and readynas OS internal :

root@readynas:~# lsblk
NAME    MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINT
sda       8:0    0  1.8T  0 disk
├─sda1    8:1    0    4G  0 part
│ └─md0   9:0    0    4G  0 raid1 /
├─sda2    8:2    0  512M  0 part
└─sda3    8:3    0  1.8T  0 part
sdb       8:16   0  1.8T  0 disk
├─sdb1    8:17   0    4G  0 part
├─sdb2    8:18   0  512M  0 part
└─sdb3    8:19   0  1.8T  0 part
sdc       8:32   0  2.7T  0 disk
├─sdc1    8:33   0    4G  0 part
├─sdc2    8:34   0  512M  0 part
└─sdc3    8:35   0  1.8T  0 part

@netgear employee ,  could you provide  any useful information about this ?

[DEADDEADBEEF]

As far as I'm aware it's not used for anything at the moment... I don't see it being something that end users will be touching/replacing though due to its location. Probably just comes with the motherboard in use and not something specifically ordered for the ReadyNAS (speculation though..), we'll see what the future brings I suppose.

[JohnCM_S]

Hi fm365,

As what @DEADDEADBEEF has mentioned the m.2 slot is not used for anything. There were plans to utilize it but it did not go through with adding anything there.

Regards,

[fm365]

Thank you,  I bought a nvme disk and have to return purchase now .