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Is this ssd nvme?

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I'm not quite sure how NVME works. I'm looking at this SSD with this motherboard. Would this work together and let me use NVME? And how fast is NVME compared to regular SSDs and M.2?

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No, it's SATA.

M.2 is a connector, it's not a memory type.

Speeds are faster on synthetics, and most likely unnoticeable in day to day use unless you move a lot of large files.

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No it's not. It's just a SATA ssd in m.2 form factor.

 

NVMe can't be measured as a certain amount faster since as always NVMe SSDs as well as SATA SSDs vary from SSD to SSD.

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No, it uses SATA with the M.2 form factor. 

 

NVMe is significantly faster for sequential read/writes, making large file transfers (provided the other drive you're using is also capable of those speeds) quicker and helps with loading large files into RAM. It's faster on paper for random read/writes too, but in terms of real world performance for things like booting, OS use and loading games, it makes basically no difference compared to a regular SATA SSD. 

 

Unless you're frequently copying large files across the same drive or across to a drive that can keep up with an NVMe drive, or unless you're editing/rendering/modelling where you're loading large files into RAM, NVMe doesn't offer much real world benefit for most. 

 

EDIT: The Samsung 960 EVO and Pro are the NVMe ones. 

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3 minutes ago, dizmo said:

M.2 is a connector, it's not a memory type.

To be fair, NVMe and SATA aren't memory types either, so I'm not sure where the comparison to memory types is relevant. They're both communication protocols (more or less)

 

EDIT: Actually, AHCI and NVMe are the communication protocols, SATA is a bus interface.

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2 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

No, it uses SATA with the M.2 form factor. 

 

NVMe is significantly faster for sequential read/writes, making large file transfers (provided the other drive you're using is also capable of those speeds) quicker and helps with loading large files into RAM. It's faster on paper for random read/writes too, but in terms of real world performance for things like booting, OS use and loading games, it makes basically no difference compared to a regular SATA SSD. 

 

Unless you're frequently copying large files across the same drive or across to a drive that can keep up with an NVMe drive, or unless you're editing/rendering/modelling where you're loading large files into RAM, NVMe doesn't offer much real world benefit for most. 

It is also used for video editing 

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