We have finally entered the new storage era and it is no longer just a few selected manufacturers that have NVMe drives on the market. More competition and more options are great for us consumers and it is a pleasure for me to take Zotac's Sonix PCIe-based NVMe SSD with 480GB capacity for a test drive here at the office today.

Zotac describes the drive as a silent silver bullet and that is not a far-fetched statement. NVMe is a standard created for solid state drives where SATA was made for mechanical drives and originates all the way back from IDE. NVMe can handle a lot more and in return, we get improved access times and blazing fast transfer speeds. This is to part due to better components, but mainly the ability to utilize the CPU a lot better and take advantage of modern architectures.