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NVM Express, Inc. has announced what it calls a rearchitected NVMe 2.0 library of specifications. The organisation sees this as a major upgrade, hence the move from NVMe 1.4 to 2.0, rather than stopping off at 1.5 or the like. Digging deeper into the reasoning for the major version change, the new spec includes "groundbreaking new features and structural specification updates [to]enable the future flash technology ecosystem". In other words, the ways the tech industry were using NVMe 1.4 outgre...

Version 2.0 of the NVM Express specification has been released, keeping up the roughly two year cadence for the storage interface that is now a decade old. Like other NVMe spec updates, version 2.0 comes with a variety of new features and functionality for drives to implement (usually as optional features). But the most significant change—and the reason this is called version 2.0 instead of 1.5—is that the spec has been drastically reorganized to better fit the broad scope of features that ...