“NVMe over TCP is a true industry standard and works with the standard Converged Ethernet adapters that ship on almost every enterprise server,” Burgener explains.

Computer-designed algorithms for controlling network congestion yield transmission rates two to three times as high as those designed by humans. TCP, the transmission control protocol, is one of ...

(Some protocols and apps give you a TCP and UDP choice, others don't, but that's something to think about later.) The app normally defaults to whatever protocol the provider thinks works best.

Changing TCP is not to be taken lightly. The protocol is already suffering due to buffer bloat undermining its built-in handling of network congestion.