Pi 5 PCIe Gen 3 SSD Performance vs USB 3

2 SSDs: SATA and NVMe SATA uses an older interface with one designed around hard drives while NVMe is designed for flash memory

2 SATA SSD weighs between 5-10g and comes in various shapes and sizes The most common dimensions are 22mm wide and 80mm long, with a thickness

nvme m2 slot Generally it is the added DRAM cache in NVMe drives that increases speed and power consumption, the flash memory itself is probably similar, so

nvme m2 slot This is why they are also referred to as NVMe SSDs To be able to boot from an SSD, the computer requires an NVMe driver in the BIOS This