What is SATA and NVMe SSD?

Serial ATA (Serial AT Attached)

Serial ATA (SATA) technology was created as a replacement to the predecessor Parallel ATA to increase speed performance and an easier to use cables for both power and data. Though this technology is still heavily used today from desktop to server applications and there’s been some improvements such as ACHI to allow high for higher IOPS (input/output operations per second) with the use of solid-state drives, it still suffers a max speed of 550 MB/s of the SATA bus/controller.

 

NVMe (Non-volatile memory – Express)

Historically, most hard drives and SSDs used buses such as SATA, SAS for interfacing with the rest of a computer system. Since SSDs became available SATA has become the most typical way and affordable way for connecting SSDs in personal computers; however, SATA was designed primarily for interfacing with HDDs and suffers speed limitations. NVMe was created as a standardize protocol that allows solid-state drives to directly interface with the computers PCIe bus to read/write at substantially higher speeds, similarly to other high intensity peripherals such as graphical cards. Though they cost more than current SATA SSDs, currently NVMe SSDs allow for max speeds over 3,500 MB/s using M.2 PCIe Gen 3.0.

 

Currently we offer NVMe upgrade option for our current Managed Dedicated Servers line. This upgrade option is perfect for servers whom have a high traffic with heavy random read/write applications such as databases but don’t have very high storage needs. Please contact us for more information.

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