Now, the Raspberry Pi 5 has a lovely new PCIe port right on board, and [Jeff Geerling] has gone right ahead and slammed in an NVMe SSD as a boot drive. [Jeff] explains that to use an NVMe to boot ...

If you don't have one, or your PC is a bit older, you can still find a great deal on a SATA SSD. These are slower than NVMe drives but they're still a huge improvement on a traditional hard drive.

Even if you don’t feel like jumping through the hoops necessary to actually boot to NVMe, the fact that you can simply plug in a standard drive and use it for mass storage is a big advantage.

That said, a premium drive may not deliver any more real world ... such as multiple queues that NVMe SSDs offer. Ready to upgrade to SSDs? EaseUS Disk Copy helps you make it in one click.

Biwin’s Black Opal X570 Pro offers full support for the NVMe 2.0 protocol, introducing features like zoned namespaces, which lets your operating system and drive better manage data placement ...

2 NVMe SSD provide a much faster overall experience than other types of drive, but it's also one of the most affordable upgrades you can make for your PC. The best M.2 SSD for gaming is the WD ...