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by lathiat 980 days ago
SATA also has multiple I/O queues. It’s called “NCQ”

The exact semantics vary per protocol but it’s a feature of most protocols at least in the currently used revisions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Command_Queuing

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That's one queue per drive. NVMe allows multiple queues per drive, commonly used to assign one queue per CPU core.