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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

• m2

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.