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This article will explain in detail what the interfaces of SSDs are for you. The editor thinks it is very practical, so I share it for you as a reference. I hope you can get something after reading this article.

1.SATA3 interface solid state disk

SATA3.0 is currently the most commonly used solid state disk interface, usually mechanical hard disk and solid state disk use this interface, compared with SATA2.0 speed has been significantly improved, due to the slow development of HDD read and write speed in actual use is not much different, however, when installing solid state disk interface speed gap is obvious, SATA2.0 peak 300MB/S and SATA3.0 peak up to 600m/s.

2.mSATA interface solid state disk

MSATA is a mini-SATA interface controller specification developed by the SATA Association. the new controller allows SATA technology to be integrated on small-size devices, while mSATA will provide the same speed and reliability as the SATA interface, which is widely used in notebooks.

MSATA is a mini version of SATA interface. Although it looks the same as mini PCI-E, mSATA still has the same SATA speed and 6Gbps speed, but it is not compatible with PCI-E, so it has no future.

3.PCI-E interface solid state disk

PCIe slots will certainly be familiar to everyone, because of the advantages of working principle, the maximum speed of PCI-E reaches 32Gbps can give full play to the potential of solid-state drives.

Although the performance of solid state disk with PCIe interface is strong, its price is extremely high. Generally, only enterprise or flagship products will use this interface.

4.M.2 interface solid state disk

At present, the most popular interface is the M.2 interface solid state disk. The motherboards launched since 2016 are basically equipped with the M.2 interface, which was originally called the NGFF interface. The three common specifications are 2242 2260, width in front of 2280 and length in the back (for example, 2242 width 22mm length 42mm).

M.2 interface is also subdivided into two kinds of Socket2 and Socket3. Socket2 supports SATA and PCI-E x2 interfaces. Socket3 is designed for high-performance storage to support PCI-E x4 theoretical speed as high as 32Gb/s. To put it simply, the M.2 SATA speed is about 500m/s, and M.2 PCI-E can reach 1000m/s.

5. NVMe parameters of solid state disk

Want to buy M.2 PCI-E interface SSDs but find it difficult to find, because low-cost products will not mark which type of M.2 interface they are. Here we teach you a method to identify, that is, to check whether the product has the parameter NVMe. If you have the NVMe parameter, it is M.2 PCI-E interface, no, it is basically M.2 SATA interface.

Before purchasing M.2 solid state drive, make sure which interface the motherboard can support. Some motherboards only support M.2 SATA solid state drive, and some motherboards are compatible with two kinds of M.2 interfaces.

This is the end of this article on "what are the interfaces of SSDs?". I hope the above content can be helpful to you, so that you can learn more knowledge. if you think the article is good, please share it for more people to see.

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