SATA SSDs used to be the norm ... Another option, if you have the chassis space, is to install your new SSD and put a clean OS install on it, but keep your previous drive hooked up and available.

When installing two PATA drives ... PCIe using NVMe based storage provides 2-3x the performance of a regular SSD on the SATA interface.

SATA drives are the larger ... Even if your computer only supports PCIe 3.0 or 4.0, you can still install a PCIe 5.0 SSD in it — it’ll just run at the maximum speed available to your PC.

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