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My mobo has many more SATA slots than M.2. slots. I expect there will be hybrid systems for quite a while.
by im3w1l 6y ago
My mobo has many more SATA slots than M.2. slots. I expect there will be hybrid systems for quite a while.
- wtallis 6y agoOne SSD is sufficient for almost all consumer systems. The only reason to want more than two SSDs is if you're re-using at least one old tiny SSD in a new machine. SATA ports will stick around in desktops only for the sake of hard drives. There may be a few niches left where using several SATA SSDs in a workstation still makes some kind of sense, and obviously not all server platforms have migrated to NVMe yet. But as far as influencing the direction and design of consumer systems, SATA SSDs have only slightly more relevance than optical disc drives.
- p1necone 6y agoDrive price doesn't scale linearly with capacity, you can save a fair bit of money sticking with multiple smaller capacity drives vs one big one.
- wtallis 6y agoDrive price per GB doesn't even scale monotonically with capacity. Right now, the best price per GB is usually on 1TB or 2TB models. And if you need more than two such devices with SSD performance, you're far outside the bounds of consumer computing and into workstation territory.
- int_19h 6y agoIt depends on what you mean by "consumer computing", really. The single largest app using up my disk space is Steam, and if I only had a single 1 Tb SSD, it'd be full by now.