If you're upgrading from a SATA SSD, it'll almost certainly be to an NVMe-based M2 SSD. It can significantly improve your system's performance, even for general tasks.

Although, at first glance both SATA and PCIe M.2 may look alike, their connector will reveal their difference; whereas SATA SSD come equipped with B+M keys, PCIe drives make use of an M key.

Patriot's Ignite M2 SATA III SSD is available in two capacities: 240GB, and 480GB. Sequential read performance for the Ignite M2 SSD is listed at up to 560MB/s.

The SATA m.2 drives are just SATA like the 2.5 inch SATA drives, same interface and protocol and speed. Any decent quality SATA SSD will be much, much faster than a spinning drive.

The only reason why you'd want build an external m.2 SSD based drive is because it's much smaller then 2.5". The m.2 NVMe versions aren't so small because they need more electronics.

Plextor was first to market with their new next generation SATA 6G SSD (the Crucial C300 was a previous generation), but they are the last to get a product in our hands.

However, the maximum data throughput of SATA III is 600MB/s, and while this is fine for HDDs, SDDs are capable of much faster speeds, which means if you have an SSD with a SATA III connection, the ...

From SATA to NVMe, PCIe Gen 3 and Gen4, SSDs come in various shapes, speeds, and, most importantly, price points, which can make finding the best SSD for gaming a little confusing.

A 19.2TB M2-based SSD is therefore theoretically possible to manufacture. TechRadar also notes how controllers shouldn’t pose too much of a problem due to the lack of a hard cap in regard to ...

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.