These include NVMe, PCIe, SATA III, and USB. USB is the most popular for external SSDs, SD cards, and USB flash drives. M.2 slots are used by thin SSDs and can be either SATA III or NVMe (PCIe).

While older computers and storage drives might still use the common SATA or the older PCIe 3.0 interfaces to sling your bits of data around, more recent computing equipment most often offers the ...