Looking to downsize to 2.5" and I was thinking SSD for reasons of longevity, quiet, and ability to run in a USB enclosure. Of course that SATA speed is sacrificed by the router port being USB 2.0.

Today's Amazon 'Deals of the Day' also include the Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids Pro tablet for over 25% off and the TP-Link Archer BE800 Wi-Fi 7 router for $200 less.

ASUS recently released a new wireless LAN router called BRT-AC828, the AC (IEEE 802.11ac compatible) router can be fitted with M2 SSD storage units after which you get some NAS functionality as well.

2 x M.2 2280 M-Key slots for PCIe 3.0 x1 NVMe SSD 3 x M.2 B-Key slots with PCI 3.0 x1 or USB 3.2 for a 5G module (there’s also a nano SIM slot) 2 x mini PCIe 3.0 x2 slots for WiFi cards ...

Whether you own your own Wi-Fi router (which I highly recommend) or rent one from your internet provider, there's probably at least one USB port on it. It's easy to ignore -- the whole point of a ...

The Kingnovy M1 is a 3″ x 3″ x 2.1″ computer with an Intel Alder Lake-N processor, four 2.5 GbE Ethernet ports, up to 16GB of RAM and an M.2 2242 slot for a PCIe 3.0 SSD.