The deal with vs NVMe vs SSD vs SATA vs AHCI etc

If it is NVMe compatible or M-key, it's a PCIe slot It should be PCIe 1x, 2x or 4x, depending upon the motherboard implementation The card

Depending on your NVMe drive's manufacturer, you can see speeds as much as five or six times faster than a SATA-based equivalent There are some

m2 pcie slot SATA-based SSDs top out around 550 MBs, while NVMe drives can reach up to 3,500 MBs on PCIe When you look at it from that perspective, it

m2_1 slot An NVMe connection, on the other hand, allows a solid state drive to have its data read straight from a PCI-E slot right on the motherboard