And for this reason SATA should have been developed further on. What's next, m.2 cables in order to cool it elsewhere?

I really don't see what the big deal is. We live in the time where you need a cooler the size of a grapefruit, or a small car radiator to cool cpu's and gpu's that can cook an egg that need a radiator and three fans to cool it. I already use a small cooling radiator on my gen 3 m2 ssd. Having to use the same or a tiny little fan on a new gen 5 m2 ssd is not outrageous.

Direct storage will only make sense for new games made thinking about the tech. Obviously comparing games not made to take advantage of it will render minuscule gains. For now, it's not worth it. But when developers tap the full potential on the PS5, it will be ported to PC.

Kaleid:

And for this reason SATA should have been developed further on. What's next, m.2 cables in order to cool it elsewhere?

SATA has no future, the sata express spec made the ports even bigger than SAS connectors on the motherboard, pointlessly. 2.5 and 3.5" storage's future is in the hands of SAS.

Astyanax:

SATA has no future, the sata express spec made the ports even bigger than SAS connectors on the motherboard, pointlessly. 2.5 and 3.5" storage's future is in the hands of SAS.

Of course there is no future to it if isn't developed at all...but now we're running out of place to place the m.2 storage, especially if we need to cool them too. My motherboard has 3 m.2 places which do not have room for coolers if I use a decent GPU.

Did some tests on a older 1tb samsung 970 evo plus in a ITX board. The drive is on top of the chipset cooler that is connected to the CPU VRM with a heatpipe. So the drive is sharing the cooling with the Chipset and VRM, far from optimal conditions. Test file was 25GB I kept copying until I ended with 550GB files and was not able to copy anymore because the drive was full. Max temp was 51 C and min temp is 40 C, case temp 30 C. The only fan in the pc is a 120mm at max 750rpm. The new drives are 3 times as fast and maybe 3 times as hot, but most people would probably run out of disk space before the drive thermal throttles. Running the drive naked is a different story. If heat is still a problem then a PCI 16 gen5 add in card with much more space and fresh air for drive cooling can be used.

TLD LARS:

Did some tests on a older 1tb samsung 970 evo plus in a ITX board. The drive is on top of the chipset cooler that is connected to the CPU VRM with a heatpipe. So the drive is sharing the cooling with the Chipset and VRM, far from optimal conditions. Test file was 25GB I kept copying until I ended with 550GB files and was not able to copy anymore because the drive was full. Max temp was 51 C and min temp is 40 C, case temp 30 C. The only fan in the pc is a 120mm at max 750rpm. The new drives are 3 times as fast and maybe 3 times as hot, but most people would probably run out of disk space before the drive thermal throttles. Running the drive naked is a different story. If heat is still a problem then a PCI 16 gen5 add in card with much more space and fresh air for drive cooling can be used.

They are only 3x faster on sequencials writes and read where it will benefit you in very specific use cases , the juice is actually at random 4k reads and writes where the actual progress on these parts is way way way slower

so fictitious problems on for an unreleased product with "unknown" fan specs that ppl wont even buy.. gotcha. while im happy stuff gets faster, it needs to be at least around +30% or more, for me to be interested. while sata might be fast enough for ppl not knowing the difference between drive types, going from mid range gen 3 to top tier gen 4 on my game drive, was as much noticeable as switching from sata to pcie drives. then again, for me its more about the times i have to reboot/reload while being online with ppl, and able to reconnect before next round/map on things like Siege. ignoring for a moment that i wont get anything past TLC for nand.

Venix:

They are only 3x faster on sequencials writes and read where it will benefit you in very specific use cases , the juice is actually at random 4k reads and writes where the actual progress on these parts is way way way slower

to most people these drive are not worth the price let alone heat they generate, dont get me wrong if i "can" get 2tb nvme drive for price of 1tb I bought few years back i would probably do it. I seen quite few says for 2tb Nvme drive notable the wd 850x at 100-130$ range recently which 10-20$ more then i pay for that 1tb ssd sata., but at same time I would be limited to 1 in current system which really doesnt have much room to put heatsink on, forget about if board has 3 slots and they "should" have heatsink on them. I remeber when MB had active cooling on them, I dont want return to that, and soon later passive cooling isnt gona be good enough for NVME