My motherboard is Gigabyte B360M D3V which has the following:
- 1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280 SATA and PCIe x4/x2 SSD support)
SSD which I'm considering is:
- Corsair MP510 240 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive
- Is the term "PCIe SSD" used to represent the same thing as "NVMe SSD" ?
- Is this NVMe SSD compatible with my motherboard ?
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No they aren't the same. NVMe is a storage protocol, PCIe is an electrical bus.
The drive you are looking at is the NVMe storage protocol on a PCIe bus in an m.2 connector. The manufacturer product page says
CORSAIR Force MP510 NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2 SSD
Now, it's become hard to find any drives which are either NVMe or PCIe without being both, but the earliest PCIe drives came out before the NVMe standard was created, so they used the AHCI or SCSI storage protocols, and looked to the OS just like a single SATA or SCSI drive connected to a PCIe host bus adapter.
NVMe gets rid of the host bus adapter.
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