About
The original SATA protocol was designed to maximize the performance of platter (physical spinning) hard drives.
With the proliferation of SSD drives, the SATA storage management protocol has become a limiting factor.
The NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory) protocol:
- has been designed for solid state drives
- and uses the PCIe bus for optimal performance.
Drive Supporting Nvm
PCI Generation
PCIe is a standard interface for connecting high-speed peripheral components to computer motherboards.
- PCIe 4.0 standard (ie 4X), was announced in 2017.
- PCIe Gen 4 doubles the data rate of PCIe Gen 3, allowing PCIe Gen 4 devices to transfer data at much faster speeds.