Guess it’s time to get some m.2 to SATA adapters
etchinghillside@reddthat.com 2 days ago
My mind forgot that M.2 is probably more prevalent these days and that they’re not just shutting down for no reason.
TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hubi@feddit.org 2 days ago
Is it though? Pretty much every single current-gen mainboard still comes with a number of SATA ports.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Most people have one drive. Everything else is cloud based now. It’s horrible 😭
errer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Omg I didn’t even mean OneDrive but I guess that’s still accurate since windows is dominant on home PCs
dan1101@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’ve got 4 drives and better upgrade while I can.
kalpol@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Ever seen a Chromebook? Almost no drive space, because Google.
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Everyone is going to buy M.2 SSDs first, and only buy SATA if they don’t have enough M.2 slots. I really doubt SATA SSDs are selling well.
With that said, I don’t see SATA going anywhere. It’s (comparatively low) bandwidth means you can throw a few ports on your board and not sacrifice much. For some quick math: a M.2 port back-hauled by PCIe 4.0 x4 has 7.8 GB/s of data lines going to it. While SATA 6.0 has only 0.75GB/s of data lines going to it.
tburkhol@lemmy.world 2 days ago
SATA is really convenient for larger storage, though. I keep my OS on nvmes, but I’ve got a couple of SATA drive and a hot swap bay for games, media, etc.
clif@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m still running spinny disks for my big-ish data. I can’t afford a 16TB SSD…
I know that’s off topic, but HDDs are still a thing too.
Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Here I am, I have like 3 or 4 m.2 drives but like 15 or something SATA drives
AlfredoJohn@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
And how many motherboards have the same amount of m.2 slots as they do sata slots? And what generation? So now I need new ram which is inflated to high hell, a new motherboard and cpu to increase storage on my gaming rig? Its not like games are small these days I like to keep most games i have installed and that takes multiple terabytes of storage that is cheaper to do via sata ssds… this is clearly anti consumer and done purely to push people to newer systems in the hope people stay with windows instead of swapping to linux. Its being done to keep the ai bubble going…
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They are going to have less m.2 slots as they require a ton more data lanes. If you do need another m.2 slot, a PCIe adapter card or a SATA adapter are both good options.
DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
Even then, NVMe riser cards are a thing to just stick an NVMe drive in a spare PCIe slot.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Does require you to have the PCIe lanes for it, BIOS support for booting to PCIe (which Intel 6th gen core CPUs were the first to support. 4th gen never did but some had m.2 slots and NVMe support for secondary drives and the 5th gen X99s had some receive BIOS updates to support but that’s its own can of worms) and both Intel and AMD have historically been pretty bad about being stingy about PCIe lane availability
Plus to run more than a single NVMe on a single slot your motherboard either needs to support PCIe bifurcation which is almost exclusively an enterprise feature or they need to have the right lane configuration available to support that x16 slot handing out 4x4 lanes (or 2x8/2x4 for dual NVMe)
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I have one m.2 and multiple sata ssd, since on my motherboard occupying the second m.2 slot would drop the pcie lane for my GPU due to sharing bandwidth.
Do newer boards not have that problem?
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Higher spec boards dont have this issue; Typically an issue with low and mid range boards due to cost savings.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah, but I think SATA is quickly being relegated to large mechanical storage drives. For things that don’t require performance, like storage and what have… because SATA is not getting any faster, I doubt anyones gonna come out with a SATA IV standard at this right, when PCIE over M2 is easier, simpler, and faster.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Comes with them, but only for legacy media. Outside of my NAS I haven’t bought a new sata drive in probably 10 years. And I haven’t touched my onboard sata ports in 5.
The fact that they’re still there impresses me at this point. But their numbers are slowly dwindling. Sata is usually the first thing that gets dropped when you need more pcie lanes. And even then most boards only have 4 at this point. They’re switching back to those god awful vertical ports which tells you all you need to know about their priority.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Most people at least put their OS on M2. I guess if you haven’t upgraded since M2 became common on motherboards you might not.
Gladaed@feddit.org 1 day ago
SATA is not intended for fast storage devices but bulk storage, at this point.