Back in the summer I bought a new Framework 16, the DIY high-performance 16” notebook. After I installed Ubuntu 24.10, it’s become my daily driver at home. At 16 inches it’s kinda bulky for roadwork, but it’s a solid performer with a great display in the shack.

A year later, the promised Dual M.2 Adapter has arrived. Now I can add two extra M.2 slots to the Laptop that could potentially carry around an AI accelerator, an eGPU adapter, or a grand total of four solid state storage sticks for incredible capacity. The new “Dual M.2 Adapter” is Framework’s first new modular component since launch that takes advantage of the Laptop 16’s large expansion bay. At launch, there were only two options: a Radeon RX 7700S discrete graphics card for extra money, or a mostly empty bay that only contained fans.

Now, I can add the Dual M.2 Adapter to that mostly empty bay to fit an additional pair of M.2 2280, 2260, 2240 or 2230 modules, with four lanes of PCIe 4.0 each, on top of the twin SSD slots that came with the laptop to begin with. Given current stick SSD capacities topping out at around 8TB (2280) and 2TB (2230) respectively, theoretically I could cart around 26TB of storage at once… not counting any 1TB Framework Expansion Cards installed into the sides of the laptop, or any giant SD cards you plug into the $25 full-size SD card modules that Framework finally released this fall.