SATA Cables and Speeds Compared

There are two types of SSDs: SATA and NVMe SATA uses an older interface with one designed around hard drives while NVMe is designed for flash memory

SATA drives, comes with a special cable that adapts it for use with the motherboard's built-in data connector port on the motherboard, noting which of

sata m2 slot SATA Express is 10GBs, but normal SATA is 6GBs So you don't see any benefit for a normal SATA drive even if having only one drive attached to that port, nor

sata 3 slot If you connect a SATA III SSD to a SATA II port on your motherboard, the SSD will be bottlenecked by the slower port's maximum data transfer rate Can I