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+type = "blog"
+title = "NVMe Driver Now Available"
+author = "kallisti5"
+date = "2019-04-16 16:41:57-05:00"
+tags = ["NVMe", "drivers"]
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+Due to the *awesome* [work](https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/?h=hrev53068) [by](https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/?h=hrev53070) [long-time](https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/?h=hrev53079) developer waddlesplash, nightly images after hrev53079 have read/write NVMe support built-in.
+
+**What is NVMe?**
+For those not keeping up with the latest advances in tech, NVMe is a M.2 form-factor flash-based storage device which attaches
+directly to the system's PCI Express bus. These flash devices are present in modern desktops and laptops and offer transfer
+speeds of **several GiB/s**.
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+These devices now show up in /dev/disk/nvme/ and are fully useable by Haiku.
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+I've [personally tested](https://twitter.com/kallisti5/status/1117974903154565120) my Samsung 950 Pro and seen raw read speeds up to 1.4GiB/s.
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+Give our NVMe driver a test and let us know your own results!
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+(Standard disclaimer that while we haven't seen any dataloss, this is a brand **new** driver, and write support especially has not been tested extensively. *Always have backups.*)