M.2 vs NVME: What's the difference?

Nice video, well done, thanks for sharing :)

Thank you

That was very helpful!

This is very good explanation of the different technologies!!

Those cables were always FUGLY! And hell to work with!

fastforward 6 years later i have a pc with 2 2tb nvme drives 1 of wich has my OS installed on it and zero hdd or ssd

Wow, the video intro gave me flashbacks to the early 90's, great video

But many people don't understand that a fast storage needs a fast CPU + fast GPU + fast RAM.

Seven bends on a ribbon cable on industrial components was quite normal here.

Stellar vid. Thanks!

Gotta love that the speeds for NVME have nearly tripled since this video was released.

Excelent video. Thank you.

I worked on creating the SCSI standard back in the day. It was my thing for a few years.

thank you. Very informative.

still an excellent video, years later. thanks.

This is really well done. Thanks!

Thanks for the explanation. When I purchased my NVME upgrade for my Synology NAS it was recommended but I wasn't really sure why. I guessed that it had something to do with speed.

Pre-2016 M.2 was usually SATA, indeed. In 2015, NVMe, if it was out, was a luxury item, sort of like getting a 'Titan, LOL.

I subbed, thanks for the great info

Worked in computer sales starting at Radio Shack in 1979 in my senior year of college. Essentially, we flew by the seat of our pants. Around 1982 or 83, we transitioned painstakingly from large floppy disks to hard drive storage. The first purchase for our store, was a five MB hard disk it cost something like $8000. Let me spell that MEGABYTES. Our demo model was also the base of our franchise accounting system. Three stations running SCO unix. I think memory was also HUGE, at eight KILOBYTES, one MILLION TIMES SMALLER than my average laptop. We had connections to bulletin boards runnng at 300 bits per second, up from 110. (Compare that to 300 to 360 MILLION bits per second on my cable modem today. Tomorrow, I will be troubleshooting a system used to remotely monitor hotel air conditioning systems by their maintenance contractor. (Needs a new four dollar CMOS battery.) I’m relieved to live in a modern world, where components are no longer proprietary. Enjoy your blessings!

Lovely explanation!

All the videos I watched yours was the only one I understood. Its nice to be shown then just told.

Well explained. Nice stove by the way.

As always you make it easy to understand. You have to be a gamer ,I got Atari 2600 for Christmas in 77 . I've seen it all lol

Wow I am 42 Years Old, and I was in that time if building PC with theses cables as well, and Honestly you've taught me a lot here thank you so much, I really appreciate the effort and time. And just subscribed to learn more... Be blessed

Honestly, they were called master and slave?

There are different sizes for nvme m.2 hard drives like 2280 2260 2230. I was wondering other than measuring is there a way to tell what size you have on without opening up the computer.

the gum joke 😂😂

Great video. Period. 😊

Thank you! Great video!

Lol OG “Original Gamer”
You prolly got me beat and I was linking gameboys for some PvP Tetris

Funny, I was just speaking with my wife the other day how we're no longer worrying about the pins for PRIMARY/SECONDARY MASTER/SLAVE when we connect hard drives with SATA now. Easier to route the thinner cables too compared to IDE.

6 year old videos can still earns subs!

Wow amazing

Top of the line explanation, thanks a lot for ur video,much appreciated

Oooh brother, listening to you, it takes me back. I've been in the industry for more than 31 years and used, configured and upgraded all kinds of hardware.

Holy Cow, this is an incredibly great video. I have found this M.2 vs NVME very confusing, but you have done a brilliantly clear job of explaining it. I used to build computers with PATA, etc. but lately only buy used HP Z workstation for myself and my clients. Getting older ones without mboard M.2 NVME sockets equipped with an adapter so they boot the OS can be a headache because of adapter compatibility. As for gaming, I used to setup DOOM Novell networked for 3 computers on my home office, I wonder if that's what you were referring to. PS I like your gas range and exhaust system too! Thanks a lot.

Watching this out of curiosity in 2023, made me laugh when you got to Optane and said "there's nothing to talk about" seeing they killed it off within the last year

i like your shirt kick ass game

I just ordered a new 2TB NVMe M.2 SSD after checking everything, and just realized I forgot to double-check the pin arrangement on the actual motherboard! But thanks to your video, I now know that I got the exact right drive.

The retailer/assembler put a regular SATA drive in the SATA3_1 slot, so I’ve been using the slowest storage speed my PC can offer… and with only 250 GB of storage.
Now I’ll be getting ten times the speed for ten times the capacity! The new drive wasn’t expensive, either. Now I just need to check that BIOS setting when it arrives, and I’ll be good to go.

It’s always good to check this stuff so you don’t miss out on things you already partially paid for :D

Man fast forward to 2023, and Intel Optane Tech was so needlessly expensive and proprietary that they buried the tech by 2019. Such an awesome optimization engine burdened by the fact you needed "Intel Optane" brand drives that were $615 for 512gb. (at the time) Nobody cared about the speed increase when you couldn't visibly tell the difference from drives that cost $150 less. (again, at the time)

I have the same shirt! =)

good job

Hey nice vid, thanks OG Gamer Carey , nice Galaga shirt too man

LOL Air flow yes it was hard to get good air flow with the Floppy ribbon cable and HHD plus when we got a CD rom lol it was so much better going to SATA nice thin cables but now with my new build all the Storage is on the motherboard with 4 MVMe Gen 4 SSD putting 2 x 1 TB and 2X 2 TB this should be enough.
Thanks for the video as I never knew that there was a difference between M.2 and MvMe M.2 and now PCI-e 5 is out ish 1000BM/s read and write they say .
things have come a long way from the 420MB HHD in my first Pc and 4BM Ram 😄

Someone that talks sense for a change

This guy looks from the guy from Money Heist. hit like if you got me!