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SATA drives ain't dead: Kingston announces it has shipped 100 million A400 SSDs
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Rekall IncorporatedPerfect for when you’re feeling precious about PCIe lanes…
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Who was saying that they were?
Rotational drive demand is way up due to AI, which is why prices are way up, and for rotational drives, the SATA interface is just fine.
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https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/internal-hard-drive/
99% of the time I don’t need a full pcie4/5 x4 speed. I’d be happy with like one pcie4 x4 m.2 slot and then a bunch of x1 slots. That to me would be a suitable replacement for 2.5” drives currently
I used to pack my towers with sata drives. Wanted the same but faster and didn’t like this 2-3 m.2 nvme slots age. This may work itself out someday. Pcie 5 x1 is 4GB/s bandwidth. Pcie 6 8GB/s - I wouldn’t need any more than a bunch of x1 slots and a cage to mount a bunch of x1 speed NVME drives in
They still make the most sense for bulk storage, no? I have one m.2 drive in my desktop and 5 2.5”
I think this is a headline in search of a problem lol. I haven’t heard anyone even insinuating that SATA drives were dead