NVMe description
What is NVMe™?
NVMe™ (Non-Volatile Memory Express) is a new storage protocol designed to leverage the full performance potential of SSDs and the underlying NAND Flash technology, by eliminating the performance bottleneck imposed by the previous storage protocol – SATA – which had been optimized for far slower hard disk drives.
Utilizing this new protocol, NVMe™ SSDs currently outperform SATA based SSDs by a factor of 6-7, with significant upward potential in the future.