Is SATA Obsolete?

Nope. Unless they can somehow come up with a 7200 RPM NVMe HDD with say 32TB of storage.
SATA ain't going no where.

I wish my laptop had a sata port

Honestly if you're on a budget and don't care about 3 seconds differences in loading times you are better off with a SATA SSD. You can pick up 4 TB sata SSD's for like $130 now. That's the current cost of 1 TB of NVME SSD.

500MB/s is still quite spiffy, especially if you can make 10tb SATA ssds for $150 one day.

The difference between HDD price and NVME is almost the same here, sata ssd is one to one with NVME now

I paid $150 for a 990 Pro with a heatsink 2TB.

they're still too expensive for me

Still too expensive for large data. Only good for boot devices

Hello, reality call - we are still using mechanical drives.

I was looking at NVMe devices today on Amazon UK and at the 2TB capacity, it’s borderline cheaper for NVMe than SATA. Crazy

no use pci x1 sata3 ssd on my motherboard h61ma d2v as i can not afford a motherboard with nvme inclusion so im happy with what i got not like anyone gonna donate me an updated machine for free are they!

I still use sata

sata is still obsolete lel

Infact nvme SSD are cheaper then sata SSD now, u can get a cheap nvme 1 TB SSD for around 56 cad while u have to pay 75 cad for a SATA 1tb ssd

Can you pls tell me which ssd is compatible for acer aspire e14 e5 471g sata or nvme

yeaaa i got a hdd . 2 ssd's and 3 nvme's lol

the ssds are old back when 500gb was expensive so i got a 250gb and a 500gb i brought over from an old build. the 250 is just kinda chillin in my case lol.

got a 6tb hdd for $100 while back for data dumps and backups.

i bought 2 nvme's (1tb and a 2tb) for my new pc and when my cousin upgraded his pc he gave me his old nvme (500gb) because his mobo one has one nvme slot lol

That's why I haven't gotten an M2 yet. First the access problem has to be solved. (one M2 ? cmon.. This is not acceptable☹) In addition, there is hardly any software, let alone games that benefit from it. It's still possible that m2 is stillborn, like much hardware before it.

sata is dead when someone gives me a sufficient amount of free nvme storage

If your archiving memorex DVD is the best option as hard drives need power and will only last a handful of years. Thanks for the info between sata and me. I have built in graphics which is full bandwidth and superb. So I use my lanes for sata. By the way there were no pata they were SCSI drives.

And just over 11 months later, that same 2TB NVMe is going for $75 😂

Lol Linus looks like a Vampire.

The pc police? Excuse me, do you know how fast your data transfer was going???

Yeah, 1TB NVMe is now cheaper than SATA.

Not all motherboards have nvme slots. And it would be useless to get an nvme expansion card as the motherboard will probably not recognise the nvme ssd as a boot drive.

Crazy how quickly the prices of ssd dropped especially nvme SSDs most are half the price they were just 1 year ago even higher capacity like 4tb.

Is SATA obsolete? NO.
Should SATA be used in any new computer, for a primary boot drive? Also, NO.
SATA still is the primary interface for massive amounts of cheap, slow, cool, and possibly even cold storage. It is what you want to use to cheaply add 1+Tb drives to your system that pretty much only store files - no launching programs from them, no booting operating systems from them. In this regard, I still see it lingering as a viable connector for quite a number of years. Unless/until NVMe drives get cheaper than spinning rust at the large-capacity end, there will always be a need for the SATA interface. We have no other way of hooking up a spinning-rust drive, and no other way of making a 20Tb NVMe drive cost less than the equivalent-sized spinning-rust drive.

I saw this video when it was new, just got it in the recommendations, and I just got the same drive (980 PRO 2TB) for $110 last week! 50% price drop in less than a year FTW!

I deactivated the SATA controller on my new computer. The SSD is M.2, and all other data storage will be connected via USB extrnally.

What i don't like with NVME drives is they tend to disappear from bios when you have to force close your PC by switching the power off, which you have to do every day with certain games like AC Valhalla...

Ever since I made the switch from Apple computers back in 2018 or so, each PC I’ve built has used NVMe storage exclusively.

I don’t have ridiculous storage capacity needs so 2-4TB is plenty for me. I don’t even maintain a very large game library. I own a lot of large games but for several of them, when I’m done playing through one and it’ll probably be a while before I play it again, I’ll just uninstall the game. I’ve got a pretty quick fiber connection and fast drives so even large games only take about 15-20 minutes to download.

If you have a very slow internet connection, I can see why you’d want to have all or most of your games present on your machine. Still, I think most PC gamers would be perfectly fine with a single 2TB drive, which just aren’t that expensive anymore, even when compared to many SATA SSD’s. I’d personally rather have a 4TB NVMe drive over an 8TB SATA drive because the increased speed matters much more to me than the increased capacity.

I bought 2t for 130bucks 980 pro. Its so cheap these days

The price gap has finally closed... the Samsung 860 Evo is more expensive than the 970 Evo Plus on Amazon (US) rn

not dead we need a new sata protocol like sata 4 with double the speed

I honestly just like the ease of putting it into my pc, it's so small and simple.
Went from barely 100 gigs to 4 terabytes lol

nah Sata will still live on... for the simple fact that you mostly only have two or three m.2 slots sometimes even only 1... so if you filled all your m.2 slots and need more storage... you could either throw away a 1tb stick and throw in a 2tb one (wasting a whole tb...) or you can just go with a "slower" Sata SSD

I'd think RAID 0, or
mirroring would never
die out. Redundency.
But this is about SATA,
the hardware.
Compare RAID USB or
SD setup to SSDs?

If you go Gen 3 instead of Gen 4 NVMe, you can get 2 TB for even cheaper at around $100.

Sata Will live 10yea more .
For storage expansion.
Motherboard support how much nvme 1 or 2 some high end 3
Max nvme size 2 TB
sata is neeed for expansion like i need 6-7 TB

In daily usage SSDs are controller limited in their speed cause that dictates how fast they can collect the required data from the nand. Thats usually in the hundreds of MBs per second. The Gigabytes of transfer speeds you see for nvme drives is just that. The maximum transfer speed of the pcie lanes that connect them to the cpu. So with identical controller performance the over 500 MBs of transfer rate for sata 3 is usually enough to transfer all the data that the controller gets from the nand. Though in my experience the controllers on nvme drives are usually better and work a bit faster. Without direct comparison its hardly noticeable.

Backup

*cries in HDD

me who just swaped to sata SSD and got 8tb for 80€

SATA still has the upside of using a cable, compared to NVME, which tends to require the drive be directly connected to the port, so you could swap out your IDE drive for SATA without changing much at all.

It's a lot harder to stick an NVME hard drive into the connector.

i just bought an expensive sata ssd, and then you show me this, why LTT!

Eh i've been getting 6tb Sata HDDs for $30-$40 on Ebay and i've generally been happy with the prices. NVME and SSD prices haven't come even remotely close to those prices yet, so Sata bulk storage has still been ideal for me

As others have said, SATA became the norm long before SSD's were available to consumers. SATA was cheaper and offered more bandwith and features.