PCIe SSDs slowly replacing SATA3 SSD
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TheDeeGee
They just need to drop in price.
Rather have a few cables than pay 50 bucks extra for speeds youre not going to notice in normal day use.
cryohellinc
mbk1969
Kaarme
Considering how old sata 3 is already, it's weird there's no sata 4. I guess nobody is developing one? Most people haven't got too many M.2 slots. PCIe addon cards with an M.2 slot or two of them must be numerous, though I never look at them.
Evildead666
Richard Nutman
I have an M2 for OS drive, it's nice.
One thing though, how do you migrate an M2 drive to another M2 drive when your old one is dying?
Dazzzzm8
Is SATA4 a thing ? Or even coming ?
Kaleid
StorageReview
We've been told by people in the working group that SATA will not be developed further.
Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/storage/comments/aaqgr9/will_there_be_a_sata_iv/
Apparently not
BLEH!
SAS 12 Gb/s has been a thing for years, can't they readily port this over to SATA?
Inquisitor
M2 is nice to have but definitely not essential and day to day t's very hard to notice any difference compared to a normal SSD and for the average user, they will not notice any difference.
Unless we really start going the micro PC route for the majority of PCs sold where space is really at a premium, I can't see why manufactures would change from SSD to M2 until it's cheaper for them to do so and at the moment M2 are much more expensive than SSD
buhehe
cryohellinc
Dragam1337
My issue with NVMe ssd's is that with consumer cpu's that only have 16 pcie lanes, you use up 4 up those lanes on the NVMe, meaning your gpu will only be running with 8 pcie lanes. Now this might not make a huge difference performance wise with a single gpu, but it can still affect performance, especially at 4k, and i personally wouldn't ever sacrifice potential performance for slightly faster loading times.
Fox2232
Corbus
Yesterday i cancelled my order of a 2 tb 660p from intel.
At first i got excited of how cheap it is but then i read how it's speed gets crippled once it gets half full. QLC is cheap for a reason.
nicugoalkeper
@Fox2232 good point, but in time new CPU's will change this and the cost will go down so
"slowly replacing" is the right word.
HardwareCaps
It was bound to happen as M.2 is a lot smarter than SATA which requires additional cables and is connected directly to the PSU.
In terms of NVME, it's nice but most users won't feel any difference between the 2.
Devin Johnel Goss
I think the whole problem with any PCIe based storage is proportionally related to the utilization of your "motherboard's" lanes. CPU/chipset manufactures need to increase available lanes if we ever want to see sole M.2 (NVME) adoption. My motherboard "only" has 24 lanes of which most of them are being used by my GPU/m.2/sound card/wife card.
I wholeheartedly agree with EvilDead that we need to move them vertically to conserve space and increase access to them. I have to take my freaking GPU out to even get to it. If they were neatly stacked next to each other as our RAM is life would be better. Personally stopped buying SATA SSD's 2 years ago and I only recommend them to folks who wish to bring new life into "older" setups. OEM's are already seeing diminishing SATA SSD's sales which will undoubtedly shape our very near future towards greater adoption.
HardwareCaps
Evildead666