Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> That is a SATA SSD, not an NVMe. > > Interesting, thanks. Apparently either it was misrepresented to me, or I > > misremembered. That explains some stuff. > > The switch from SATA to the NVMe interface/protocol happened basically > at the same time as the switch from the 2.5" (and mini-pcie) to the M.2 > format, so it's a common mistake to consider that for an SSD, "M.2 => > NVMe" (the implication is currently true in the other direction, tho, > AFAIK).
Not at all. We have many servers with U.2 and U.3 format disks, which look like classic 2.5" SSDs but use NVMe PCIe connections. I suspect there are few desktops (mostly 'workstation' class machines) and no laptops using U.2. -dsr-
