SATA : is a bus interface
PCIe : is a bus interface
M.2 : is a physical connector
If that’s the case, how could something be both SATA
and PCIe
at the same time?
Also, U.2
, SATA
and SATAe
are all physical connectors.
Is SATA
both physical connector and bus interface?
As I know, ATA
uses IDE
protocol.
SATA
uses AHCI
protocol.
PCIe gen4
uses NVMe
protocol.
And something cannot be IDE
, AHCI
, and NVMe
at the same time.
But how could something use different bus interfaces
at once?