A Closer Look at Skull Canyon

The Skull Canyon NUC, like most NUCs, requires that you purchase some RAM and storage separately. Intel has kindly provided us with a pair of their latest 600p NVME drives, and G.Skill has provided us with a pair of SO-DIMM 16 GB modules rated at 3000 MHz.


The 600p is Intel's latest NVME drive in the M.2 form factor. These are the 512 GB model.


Next up are the G.Skill DDR4 SO-DIMM modules; each has a capacity of 16 GB and is rated at 3000 MHz. Hard to believe that each of these small SO-DIMM sticks has the same capacity as the entire Skulltrail system, not to mention that they run at 3000 MHz compared to Skulltrail's 800 MHz memory.


Installation begins by unscrewing four Phillips head screws on the bottom of the device.


For the RAM, all we had to do was insert the two sticks. For the SSDs, we had to remove one small screw for each, insert, and then replace the screw.


The entire installation only took a few minutes, which made it an absolute breeze compared to a full system install.