With an SSD, not only can older systems be quickly brought up to speed, but few other interchangeable components in a PC provide such a noticeable performance boost as a flash storage drive replacing a magnetic hard drive. SSDs are not only faster, but they also feature absolute silence and shock resistance (no mechanical parts), extremely low power consumption, and - especially in the M.2 format - a compact size. Additionally, the connection via PCIe x4 and the NVMe protocol offers an unbeatable speed advantage of up to 8 Gbit/s.