M.2 slots also have key types (notches on the card in between the pins). All NVMe drives have M-type keying. SATA drives usually have B+M keying. SATA-only M.2 slots should have B keying, which …

I can see the purpose of absolutely needing at least the one m.2 slot for your boot drive, and how having more than one might matter if you're working with large databases or the like, but for games and …

Nov 14, 2023 · The NVMe specification also allows for 65535 command queues, which can have up to 65536 commands per queue. Recall that SATA-based SSDs are limited to a single queue with a …

Nov 26, 2021 · I've recently been looking for a new internal SSD and have been a bit confused as to how a SATA SSD could possibly be basically as good as an M.2 NVMe for gaming.

Jul 19, 2023 · Higher capacity, higher endurance, consistent speeds and same $/TB (sometimes even cheaper) as m.2 SSD's are the reason. However, in my low power plex server, I still use m.2 NVMe …

Aug 3, 2022 · By M.2, I assume you mean an NVME right? It's possible to get both SATA and NVME drives in a M.2 form factor. It's also possible to get an NVME drive in a standard PCIe form factor …

For productivity, faster nvme drives will only make a difference if you're regularly moving very large files around locally. If you're moving them over the network your network interface will almost always be …

May 24, 2023 · M.2 drives are SSDs. I assume you mean SATA SSDs, which use the same types of NAND flash. The only main difference between the form factors is the interface they use to …

Oct 29, 2023 · In the future there is tech on the horizon which would allow PCIe devices, like GPUs to access the PCIe bus and the NVMe directly, those use cases would absolutely want gen 5.0. So the …

Linus did a video on this, and it makes no difference. The advantage of putting the OS on SSDs is seek time, not read/write speed. NVMe M.2 is convenient because you don't need to add power and data …