What determines an SSDs performance?

This is because, as stated earlier, “SSD performance varies depending on: the size of the data being read or written, the randomness of the data being read or written, the mixture of reads and writes, the queue depth, and how much the data can be compressed (if applicable to the SSD).

How many NVMe drives can I have?

Theoretically, up to 12 NVMe drives can be connected directly to the processor’s VMD ports. However, the actual number of NVMe drives can vary because some Intel VMD ports may be allocated by the motherboard for other chipset functions of use of other PCIe devices and/or connected to a PCIe switch.

Can I mix and match SSDs?

on new pc todat each sata port is it own channel…so you can mix and match and the hardware and os wont care unless your trying to raid the drives..then they have to be the same size.

Is IOPS important for SSD?

While IOPS was important when measuring hard drive performance, most real-world situations do not require more than a thousand inputs/outputs per second. Therefore, IOPS is rarely viewed as an important metric in SSD performance.

How are SSDs measured?

Measuring their useful work is straightforward; we measure their accesses (reading or writing data) per unit of time. The more accesses an SSD or HDD provides per unit of time, the more useful work they have done. For SSDs or HDDs, we can measure the number of accesses per unit of time called IOPS.

Can you have 2 different SSDs in a PC?

Sure. In fact, you can use as many SSDs as you have ports to plug them into and power connectors to run them. Whether you need multiple drives is a different question, but using multiple drives is not an issue.

Can you raid two different SSD drives?

While I would not really recommend it, yes you can RAID two different drives either RAID 0 or 1. Of course your chance of an array failure in RAID 0 is increased, so be diligent in your backups.