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fourteen hundred dollars that's how much you pay back in 2015 for two terabytes

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of top-end NVMe storage for your computer but nowadays you can get the

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same thing for around 250 bucks NVMe drives have gone from a luxury reserved

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for the one percent to a standard inclusion on even some budget laptops

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costing less than three hundred dollars oh we fancy huh

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so with NVMe having become so accessible

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what's the prognosis for SATA does it still have some life left to live or is

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it close to joining those old school gray ribbon cables in that big e-waste

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bin in the sky well part of the reason those old gray

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cables used by a standard called p-a-t-a died out was because peda was used

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almost exclusively by mechanical hard drives whereas consumer ssds nearly

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always used SATA seeing as SATA was also

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compatible with hard drives there just wasn't any reason to keep these slow

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bulky airflow restricting pata standard

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around more like p-i-t-a am i right

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but an even bigger reason those died out was because the leap from mechanical to

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solid-state storage was a huge deal even

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for a user who didn't know or care anything about how their computer worked

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switching to a SATA SSD made a huge difference in overall responsiveness by

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contrast the leap from SATA to NVMe isn't nearly as big for the average user

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and many people can't even tell the difference in day-to-day use unless

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they're often moving large files around this means that for many people paying

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the price premium for NVMe over SATA just isn't really worth it but as we

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mentioned NVMe is quickly getting cheaper so what happens when the price

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gap closes completely we'll tell you right after we thank ifixit for

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by going to ifixit.com forward slash techwiki so it turns out that seda's

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advantages don't stop at just being cheaper for starters if you need to put

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lots of storage in your system SATA is still the way to go even premium

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motherboards often don't have more than three m.2 slots for NVMe drives whereas

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the cheapest motherboards will usually have at least four SATA headers and

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stepping up to something higher end will give you six or more even if your case

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doesn't have room to properly mount all those SATA ssds yeah you could just let

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them sit loosely inside we won't tell the pc building police and

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if you need even more SATA ports you could also buy an expansion card SATA

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drives are also a heck of a lot easier to unplug or reconnect if you find that

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you need to swap them out often m.2 drives are a little bit more finicky and

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need to be screwed down another major consideration is bandwidth using an NVMe

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SSD takes up some of your pci express lanes commonly a total of four many

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modern cpus can support one NVMe drive and one graphics card but any more than

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this and you'll have to make choices about how many lanes to allocate to each

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device graphics cards can usually run at x8 without too much trouble but if you

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have more than two NVMe drives and have to bump the GPU down to x4 you're going

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to start seeing performance drops while gaming SATA by contrast is separate from

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your pci express bus and typically connects to your chipset meaning it

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won't interfere with anything you have installed in your pci express slots

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unless you're using a SATA expansion card so you can install as much storage

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as you want and it won't interfere with your frame rate it's storage that knows

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to stay in its lane and of course we can't forget that mechanical hard drives

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are still in fact a thing that people buy they're still significantly cheaper

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per Gigabyte than even a SATA SSD for long-term mass storage and new drives

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are still being developed both seagate and western digital now have 20 terabyte

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mechanical drives on the market and higher capacities should follow in the

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years to come even though seagate actually recently demoed a hard drive

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with an NVMe connection the idea there is simply to make it easier to link them

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up with NVMe ssds in data centers for

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most users SATA will still be the connector of choice for hard drives when

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they need large amounts of cheap storage it may not be around forever but like an

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old guy who takes a part-time gig at home depot instead of retiring SATA has

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enough advantages to keep it relevant for years to come

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just don't mention the good old days you're never going gonna get out of

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