HardwareQuestion 3 of 100
Which storage interface offers the highest sequential throughput for a consumer SSD?
a.SATA III
b.USB 2.0
c.NVMe over PCIe
d.PATA/IDE
Explanation
NVMe drives communicate over the PCIe bus and greatly exceed the roughly 600 MB/s ceiling of SATA III. USB 2.0 and legacy PATA are far slower and are not used for high-performance internal storage.
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