fourteen hundred dollars that's how much you pay back in 2015 for two terabytes
of top-end NVMe storage for your computer but nowadays you can get the
same thing for around 250 bucks NVMe drives have gone from a luxury reserved
for the one percent to a standard inclusion on even some budget laptops
costing less than three hundred dollars oh we fancy huh
so with NVMe having become so accessible
what's the prognosis for SATA does it still have some life left to live or is
it close to joining those old school gray ribbon cables in that big e-waste
bin in the sky well part of the reason those old gray
cables used by a standard called p-a-t-a died out was because peda was used
almost exclusively by mechanical hard drives whereas consumer ssds nearly
always used SATA seeing as SATA was also
compatible with hard drives there just wasn't any reason to keep these slow
bulky airflow restricting pata standard
around more like p-i-t-a am i right
but an even bigger reason those died out was because the leap from mechanical to
solid-state storage was a huge deal even
for a user who didn't know or care anything about how their computer worked
switching to a SATA SSD made a huge difference in overall responsiveness by
contrast the leap from SATA to NVMe isn't nearly as big for the average user
and many people can't even tell the difference in day-to-day use unless
they're often moving large files around this means that for many people paying
the price premium for NVMe over SATA just isn't really worth it but as we
mentioned NVMe is quickly getting cheaper so what happens when the price
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advantages don't stop at just being cheaper for starters if you need to put
lots of storage in your system SATA is still the way to go even premium
motherboards often don't have more than three m.2 slots for NVMe drives whereas
the cheapest motherboards will usually have at least four SATA headers and
stepping up to something higher end will give you six or more even if your case
doesn't have room to properly mount all those SATA ssds yeah you could just let
them sit loosely inside we won't tell the pc building police and
if you need even more SATA ports you could also buy an expansion card SATA
drives are also a heck of a lot easier to unplug or reconnect if you find that
you need to swap them out often m.2 drives are a little bit more finicky and
need to be screwed down another major consideration is bandwidth using an NVMe
SSD takes up some of your pci express lanes commonly a total of four many
modern cpus can support one NVMe drive and one graphics card but any more than
this and you'll have to make choices about how many lanes to allocate to each
device graphics cards can usually run at x8 without too much trouble but if you
have more than two NVMe drives and have to bump the GPU down to x4 you're going
to start seeing performance drops while gaming SATA by contrast is separate from
your pci express bus and typically connects to your chipset meaning it
won't interfere with anything you have installed in your pci express slots
unless you're using a SATA expansion card so you can install as much storage
as you want and it won't interfere with your frame rate it's storage that knows
to stay in its lane and of course we can't forget that mechanical hard drives
are still in fact a thing that people buy they're still significantly cheaper
per Gigabyte than even a SATA SSD for long-term mass storage and new drives
are still being developed both seagate and western digital now have 20 terabyte
mechanical drives on the market and higher capacities should follow in the
years to come even though seagate actually recently demoed a hard drive
with an NVMe connection the idea there is simply to make it easier to link them
up with NVMe ssds in data centers for
most users SATA will still be the connector of choice for hard drives when
they need large amounts of cheap storage it may not be around forever but like an
old guy who takes a part-time gig at home depot instead of retiring SATA has
enough advantages to keep it relevant for years to come
just don't mention the good old days you're never going gonna get out of
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