WHat is nvme vs sata?
SATA and NVMe are two different storage interfaces with very different performance levels. SATA (Serial ATA) is
- an older standard originally designed for hard drives and later adapted for SSDs;
- it uses a SATA cable/interface and typically tops out around 550 MB/s, often in the familiar 2.5-inch drive form factor.
NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express), on the other hand,
- is a newer standard built specifically for SSDs that uses PCIe lanes (like GPUs), enabling much lower latency and far greater parallelism. This results in dramatically higher speeds—around 3,500 MB/s on PCIe 3.0, 7,000 MB/s on PCIe 4.0, and 10,000+ MB/s on PCIe 5.0
