In this era of over-marketing and misinformation, it can be refreshing to clarify things for customers.
Allow me to be refreshing regarding NVMe 🙂
NVMe is simply a protocol. Just like SCSI is a protocol. NVMe is most assuredly not a media type. Yet, storage vendors keep talking about “NVMe drives” and customers often think those devices are equal as long as “NVMe” is mentioned.
Alas, that’s not how things work…
Strictly speaking, there’s no such thing as an NVMe drive. Or, at the very least, calling something an “NVMe drive” isn’t enough to describe what that media is, and it’s especially not enough to describe how fast it may be.
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