3 Things to Know About the Intel NUC 12 Dragon Canyon's M.2 Slots

It has two PCIe Gen 4 M.2 slots One slot fits 2280 drives, the other accepts 2280 or 2242 sizes. Both run at Gen 4 x4 speeds.

Dual Gen 4 slots are ideal for a compact NAS You can run two fast NVMe drives in RAID for storage or redundancy without sacrificing performance.

They also suit a workstation build The high bandwidth supports demanding tasks like video editing or virtual machines in a small footprint.