The NVM Express (NVMe) specification has received its first major update in three years. Version 1.3 of the NVMe specification (PDF) for SSDs on a PCI Express (PCIe) bus adds a significant number of new features.
The NVM Express Organisation says that it has fulfilled its promises to add capabilities to meet the needs of its Enterprise, Cloud, and Client customers. Sanitise, Virtualization and Streams functionality have received particular attention, it says. Breaking down these three enhancements: Sanitise offers a simple, fast, native way to completely erase data; Virtualization provides more flexibility with shared storage use cases; and Streams offers better endurance for NAND-based SSDs.
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