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by gloyoyo 898 days ago
What is m.2 2042?
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2042 would be 20mm wide and 42mm long.

That's unlikely to be what was meant. It's probably m.2 2242, a shortish but "normal" drive size in the embedded space.

It's a connector for an internal SSD.

As others have said, it was probably supposed to read "m.2 2242" which is physically in-between the size of the 2230 drives that the Steam Deck uses and the 2280 ones that most modern desktops and laptops use.

The M.2 standard allows module widths of 12, 16, 22 and 30 mm

Notice no 20 mm width is allowed as part of the M.2 standard. The device specs are likely a typo.

And then there is EDSFF's E1.S 30110 (30112 really).
Probably M.2 2242 (22mm x 42mm) with a typo.