Modern PC hardware in the memory is one of the bigger breakthrough of solid-state drives. Traditional data transmission speed is 7200 RPM and 10000 RPM drive several times, the reason is very easy to understand. Use SSD startup and shutdown faster not only, and all aspects of the system speed is accelerated. We strongly recommend them. But the NVMe SSD differ with the standard SATA drives? All m. 2 drives are classified as NVMe?

What is the NVMe?

First of all, about SSD quickly - they soon. Actually so fast, their limiting factor is not their own hardware, but the use of SATA III link on the traditional hard disk drives. Enter the NVMe. NVMe on behalf of "Non - Volatile Memory Express", is a kind of open standards, designed to allow the modern SSD with flash Memory can be read/write speeds. Essentially, it allows the flash directly run through the PCIe interface as SSD, rather than through the SATA and slower SATA speed limit. In other words, it is a description of the components used to communicate with PC bus, instead of a new type of flash memory. It also has nothing to do with the overall dimensions, this is the NVMe drive can use m. 2 or PCIe card shape size.

Such as: samsung 960 Pro is the fastest NVMe drives on the market... Until 970, replacing it Pro... The 980 Pro replaced it.

Is every driver m. 2 NVMe?

No, please remember, m. 2 just overall dimensions. M. drives can have SATA version 2 (such as Crucial MX500 m. 2) and NVMe version (such as Samsung 970 Pro/EVO), they describe they use to communicate with other PC components for electric bus. SATA m. 2 SSD drive and a 2.5 -inch SATA SSD actually run in a almost the same size. NVMe m., on the other hand, 2 absolutely not, as we discussed.

NVMe speed compared with SATA?

Modern motherboard using SATA III, the maximum throughput of 600 MB/s (or SATA II to 300 MB/s, in this case, it's time to upgrade). Through the connection, the majority of SSD will provide about 530/500 MB/s read/write speed. 7200 RPM SATA drive management, by contrast, the rate of about 100 MB/s, depending on the use of time, condition and level of debris. NVMe drives for Gen 3, on the other hand, provides up to 3500 MB/s write speed, up to 5000 MB for Gen 4