This new communications standard was developed for solid state drives and was a collaborative effort among major technology companies including Intel, Samsung, and Dell. For business owners, the bottom line of the technology is this: it allows a hard drive to act like super-fast memory (the advantage that we all expect from an SSD) and it is a leap in productivity because most SSDs, while faster than spinning hard drives, are like faster hard drives, which is not the improvement that the technology is capable of delivering.
Another way to think about it: NVMe means instant response – never waiting for your computer to respond.
Looking for Speed? The Real Solution Lies in Storage
We often think that data speed depends primarily on things like the CPU or the amount of RAM installed. But those components have not changed as rapidly – or had as much impact – as the evolution in storage technology. The evolution from spinning drives to solid state drives, to NVMe SSDs represents huge leaps in performance.
The NVMEA SSD in a newer Macbook is a good example – users know that those devices are faster than anything they’ve used in the past – 4 to 10 times as fast as SATA SSDs, which were 10 times as fast as spinning hard drives.
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