A technician is building a high-performance workstation for video editing and wants to install the fastest possible storage solution for the operating system and applications. The motherboard supports both the M.2 form factor and standard SATA connections. To achieve the lowest latency and highest data transfer rates, which storage communication interface should the technician's primary drive use?
NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) is a communication protocol designed specifically for SSDs to work directly with the PCIe bus. It offers significantly lower latency and higher data transfer rates compared to SATA, which was originally designed for mechanical hard drives. For a high-performance workstation, an NVMe M.2 SSD is the optimal choice for the primary drive. SATA is a much slower interface, with SATA III maxing out around 600 MB/s, whereas modern NVMe drives can reach speeds of 7,000 MB/s or more. eSATA is an interface for external drives, and SAS is typically used in enterprise server environments.
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