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    NVMe SSDs:EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS INSANELY FAST STORAGE

    Sep 04, 2018 5 minutes
    BY JON L. JACOBI

    NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) is no longer a nice-to-have storage technology. If you’re shopping for a new PC, it’s a feature you should actively seek out. Moreover, if your PC is of fairly recent vintage, you should upgrade to NVMe. Here’s why.

    NVMe is a communications standard/protocol developed specially for SSDs by a consortium of vendors including Intel, Samsung, SanDisk, Dell, and Seagate. It operates across the PCIe bus (hence the Express in the name), which allows the drives to act more like the fast memory that they are, rather than the hard disks they imitate. Bottom line: NVMe is fast. Really fast. Like never-have-to-wait-again-for-your-computer fast.

    NVME: IT’S THE STORAGE, STUPID

    Not to belittle the efforts of CPU and GPU vendors over the last decade, but the reason the latest top-end PCs seem so much faster is because of the quantum leap in storage

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