By PURPLELEC | 12 December 2024 | 0 Comments
NVMe vs. SATA: What's the Difference
There are significant differences in communication drivers and interfaces between NVMe and SATA. The AHCI driver used by SATA is designed for mechanical hard drives, while the NVMe driver is designed for solid state drives (SSD). NVMe improves resource utilization by leveraging PCIe slots for efficient communication between the storage interface and the system CPU.
SATA solid state drive
History and Development: Serial ATA (SATA) technology was introduced in 2000 and improved upon the limitations of Parallel ATA (PATA) such as cable size, cost, performance, and functionality.
Performance comparison: Although SATA technology is sufficient to support mechanical hard disks (HDDs), the performance of HDDs (50-120 MB/sec write speed) is far less than that of SSDs. The emergence of SATA SSD proves the performance limit of ATA bus, which can reach the SATA bus limit of 550 MB/second.
System performance improvements: Despite bus limitations, using SATA SSDs instead of HDDs typically improves system performance by 10 to 15 times.
NVMe SSD
Launch and technical advantages: Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) technology was launched in 2011, eliminating the bottleneck of the SATA interface and communication protocol. Leveraging the PCIe bus, NVMe unlocks tremendous bandwidth potential.
Data transfer speed: PCIe 4.0 provides up to 32 lanes, with a theoretical data transfer speed of up to 64,000 MB/sec, far exceeding SATA III’s 600 MB/sec.
Command queue: NVMe supports 65535 command queues, each queue contains up to 65536 commands, while SATA SSD has only one queue with a depth of 32 commands.
Industry prospects: NVMe technology is considered a new industry standard due to its high efficiency, high performance and broad system interoperability.
Solid state drive dimensions
Mechanical hard drives vs. SATA SSDs: Mechanical hard drives are usually 2.5 or 3.5 inches wide, while most SATA SSDs are 2.5 inches wide and 7 mm thick.
NVMe SSD dimensions:
M.2: Small physical size, such as 2280 (22 mm wide, 80 mm long), commonly used in laptops and desktops.
U.2: Higher price, stronger performance, better durability, usually used in data center/enterprise storage environments.
PCIe plug-in card: For systems without M.2 slots.
SSD Performance Overview
Advantages of NVMe: Specifically designed for SSD, it communicates directly with the CPU through the PCIe bus to achieve breakthrough performance improvements.
Data transfer rates: SATA III bus performance is limited to 6Gb/s (up to 550 MB/s throughput), while PCIe 3x4 SSD can provide up to 4GB/s read/write throughput, and PCIe Gen 4X4 can provide up to 8GB/s ( bidirectional).
Protocol latency: NVMe reduces protocol latency, optimizes data paths, and improves CPU processing efficiency for queue management.
Operating system support: NVMe devices are supported by most major operating systems, thanks to extensive development efforts over the past decade.
Advantages and Applications of Solid State Drives (SSDs)
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