NVMe vs SATA vs mSATA Explained

An NVMe connection, on the other hand, allows a solid state drive to have its data read straight from a PCI-E slot right on the motherboard

2 drives SATA and NVMe drives both adhere to the NGFF standard, so in terms of physical compatibility, they share the same form factor

m2 sata slot Note: Most M Key sockets on laptops are backward compatible with SATA bus, but some M Key slots on desktops only support PCI-E bus Disk

m2_1 slot SATA SSD vs NVMe SSD · SATA SSD: smaller than SSD, slower than NVMe · NVMe SSD: very high write and read speeds