NVMe — the future of the SSD Mac
I’m pretty confident Apple maintains a strong development road map for the range.
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Take its move to improve SSD support in Macs. We already know the future of the Mac is solid state and that disk drives are rapidly moving into history. Now, the company intends on developing the technologies it uses in SSDs to make them faster, with lower latency, heightened capacity and at costs that match what we’re used to.
Case in point: The newly launched MacBook. This release came as Apple added support for the NVM Express (NVMe) SSD Interface in OS X 10.10.3. Apple had to introduce this support as these new Macs are the first designs in which Apple has deployed NVMe, with an NVMe controller inside the Mac replacing the AHCI Advanced Host Controller Interface we’ve seen the company use the last few years.
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