The NVM Express (NVMe) specification has been introduced in 2011. Five years later, it is definitely adopted as the new standard storage interface for Solid-State Drives (SSD). Even if SAS and SATA ...
The price for large solid-state drives has plummeted in recent years, and even though they're still quite variable, it's still possible to get a really good NVMe SSD for relatively little money.
In actuality, it’s an armored 10Gbps USB SSD that’s significantly faster than your average thumb drive. In fact, the internals are NVMe, so performance definitely leans in that direction ...