Here I am, I have like 3 or 4 m.2 drives but like 15 or something SATA drives
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.
Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
AlfredoJohn@sh.itjust.works 14 hours 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 13 hours 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 15 hours 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)
DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 15 hours ago
both Intel and AMD have historically been pretty bad about being stingy about PCIe lane availability
Hold up, I thought some of the nicer AM3+ boards using the 990FX chipset had a fair bit of lanes available.
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.
AlfredoJohn@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Which just also shows why this is a very anti consumer move. Its trying to artifically push people to by new hardware because there hasn’t been significant enough changes to really warrant it. This then means more people who might have swapped off of windows to keep their existing hardware might end up having to upgrade then stick with their familiar windows platform so that the ai bubble can continue. Its completely fucked up
tburkhol@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day 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.
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m very excited for the day I can replace my spinners with SSDs. That day is coming, but it is not today.
TVA@thebrainbin.org 1 day ago
Right‽ I don't think anyone expected spinners to outlast SATA SSDs!
Valmond@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
They have become expensive too IMO, a 3-4 TB drive costs more today than a couple of years ago, and the used market here in europe is insane.