On May 27, 2018, nospam wrote
(in ) :

In , Jimmy Wilkinson Knife
wrote:

So many mfg's even if they are using an M.2 interface, they are probably
using the SATA software interface, so it's not going to be any better
than a SATA SSD. Samsung makes some of the best M-key/NVMe drives, which
really show off their value proposition over standard SATA drives which
are bottlenecked by the SATA interface.

But the SATA is NOT bottlenecked if they'd just use SATA 3.2 (emphasis on
the .2).

except that nobody uses that. it's a dead standard.

And nvme drives are damn expensive.

no they aren't.

I don’t think they are that expensive either. You can get the Samsung Pro
970 NVMe for $249 / 512 GB. The 1 TB drive is $499. The non-pro EVOs tend to
be at least a $100 less than that. The Samsung T5 USB-C 500 GB drives are
$149. This is getting into thumb drive prices for good quality and reliable
performance.

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Peter Kozlov