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2.5” SATA drives are dead for laptops. Only the really cheap/slow ones still have them, and that’s not the market for this kind of device. We’re lucky that we
by orev 6y ago
2.5” SATA drives are dead for laptops. Only the really cheap/slow ones still have them, and that’s not the market for this kind of device.
We’re lucky that we still have removable M.2 SSDs at all. It looks like devices will be moving to fully soldered storage in the next few years.
- CivBase 6y ago> We’re lucky that we still have removable M.2 SSDs at all. It looks like devices will be moving to fully soldered storage in the next few years. What makes you say that? Unlike smartphones, laptops are still widely used as productivity stations. Surely that means there will continue to be high demand for upgradable and replaceable internal storage.
- novok 6y agoLook at macbooks and ultrabooks, and what % of users really replace their internal drives?
- woleium 6y agolots of IT teams have a fleet of the same machines with a spares to swap the ssd into when a machine is damaged.
- orev 6y agoAnd this is probably the only reason we still have that as an option. The Surface Pro 7 Plus just came out with a removable drive, so hopefully that shows there really is still a need for removable drives. But for consumers I think the only option will soon be cloud.
- zepolen 6y agoAt least LG doesn't seem to be going in that direction, the LG Gram 17: - Two m2/nvme slots - Upgradeable ram - 17" retina resolution - 2.9lb weight - 16:10 aspect ratio - User replaceable battery/speakers