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M.2, on the other hand, is actually a type of form factor. You can find both NVMe M.2 SSDs and SATA M.2 SSDs in the wild. Sometimes product advertisements or summaries use “M.2 SSD” to imply ...

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A typical SATA SSD may have read/write speeds of around 500MB/s, but new NVMe SSDs operating on the PCIe 5.0 interface can hit 14,500MB/s.

Samsung 850 EVO SATA SSD Boot drive Crystal benchmark Seagate Firecuda M.2 NVMe Boot drive Crystal benchmark, over an x4 PCIe 2.0 interface.

It is fine for spinning disks, as it was designed for, but for any M.2 SSD, the cost difference of going from SATA to NVMe is negligible and the performance benefits are high.

The cheap SSD ultimately finished the test at 13,000 IOPS and 10,225 ms, compared to the Kingston's 78,000 IOPS and 1,630 ms. It was a similar story with 4K random writes.

Below, we’ll go over what NVMe, SATA, and M.2 mean in SSDs, how they compare to each other, and which one you should pick to make sure you’re getting the best SSD.