SSD vs. NVMe: What's the Difference
IBM News, Monday, November 20,2023
Recent technological advancements in data storage have prompted businesses and consumers to move away from traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) towards faster, lower-latency solid-state drive (SSD) technology.
In this post, we're going to look at this new technology, as well as the fastest and most popular protocol available to connect it to a computer's motherboard-non-volatile memory express (NVMe).
While the terms SSD and NVMe are often used to describe two different types of drives, they are actually different data storage technologies that are can used to complement each other. SSDs are a type of semiconductor-based storage used with flash storage, and NVMe is a protocol for data transfer with reduced system overheads per input/output operations per second (I/O, or IOPS) that is used in SSDs with flash memory.