On Tue, 15 May 2018 21:14:59 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife"
wrote:

Everybody seems to be getting excited about the nvme interface SSDs on M2 connectors. And everybody says they're so much faster than SATA 3 which is limited to 6Gbps. But it isn't. SATA 3.2 came out years ago and it's 16Gb/s. So is there any point in buying an M2 shaped SSD? I can't find any sensible comparisons online anywhere.

I know you're mostly asking about a performance comparison, but one of
the things I like about m.2 is its smaller form factor.

My newest laptop has dual 2.5" drive bays, but Bay 0 can take two m.2
drives, so I have a 256GB NVMe and a 500GB NVMe drive in Bay 0 and a 1TB
regular SSD in Bay 1.