What are the 3 types of hard drives?

There are three different kinds of hard drives: SATA, SSD and NVMe.

• SATA – A SATA hard drive is a type of rewritable mass storage device characterized by respectable transmission speeds, excellent storage capacities, and flawless support by virtually all operating systems and computer motherboards. SATA drives are less expensive. However, SATA drives are also slower to boot up and slower in retrieving data than SSDs. If you’re looking for a hard drive with tons of storage space, a SATA drive may be for you, as they commonly hold terabytes of data.
• SSD (Solid State Drive) – SSDs in general are more reliable than HDDs, which again is a function of having no moving parts. … SSDs commonly use less power and result in longer battery life because data access is much faster and the device is idle more often. With their spinning disks, HDDs require more power when they start up than SSDs.
• NVMe (Nonvolatile Memory Express) – is a new storage access and transport protocol for flash and next-generation solid-state drives (SSDs) that delivers the highest throughput and fastest response times yet for all types of enterprise workloads. The difference between SSD and NVMe is that SSD stores data by using integrated circuits while NVMe is an interface used to access the stored data at a high speed. NVMe is far advanced than SSD and hence is faster and better encrypted than the latter.