SATA, PCIe, and M.2: The slots on your motherboard, explained

sata slot   wisata wayang windu Serial ATA, or S-ATA abbreviated SATA: The “Serial Advanced Technology Attachment” interface has long been the standard for mass storage and removable storage drives such as CDs and DVDs

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ssd sata slot SATA M.2 SSDs are based on the SATA interface, the same as that of the 2.5-inch SATA SSDs. Thus, they provide the same level of speed, which reach up to 600 MB per second of data transfer rate. But the M.2 SSDs with NVMe support have up to five times the bandwidth than that of SATA SSDs', offering faster data transfer speed and higher performance