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What is NVMe?
Standing for non-volatile memory express, NVMe is a storage interface that drives a direct connection to the motherboard.
Non-volatile means the storage isn’t deleted when your computer reboots, and express means the data travels over the PCI Express interface of your computer’s motherboard.
It removes the need for a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) controller as it drives a direct connection to the motherboard.
NVMe offers a more significant storage throughput and lower latency and is an evolutionary step for flash storage media and memory media.
The technology
NVMe is a flash-based storage system. Usually, an SAS or serial-attached SCSI link is used to communicate with the media. NVMe, with its lower latency, takes advantage of the microsecond of latency from the flash arrays and eliminates bottlenecks.
Enterprise-class features can better equip businesses to manage extreme demands and workloads, whether you’re a small independent company or a large enterprise. Providing a better server capacity and computer performance, improving the overall user experience.
It’s essential to check that the drive will be suitable for your system.
Things to consider
1. Can your server use NVMe?
2. If so, does it have the correct components?
3. How many NVMe drives do you need?
Not all servers can add NVMe drives in U.2 format (2.5”). As these drives use different connections and come in different forms, some servers don’t have the functionality to accommodate the drives.
Other servers can hold NVMe drives but might not have the right connections to the motherboard to utilise the storage. Depending on the slot sizes and disk drives, servers may be able to accommodate a certain number of drives but only function with a percentage of them.
Another option exists if your server doesn’t work with NVMe U.2 drives. HL (half-height, half-length) solid-state drives are adapters for M.2 drives. Providing a smaller drive that can work in the PCIe slots on a server, where you’d usually put the NVMe drive.
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