-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2017-12-14 at 08:37 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 8:00 AM, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
On Wednesday, 2017-12-13 at 22:19 -0800, L A Walsh wrote:
And, who knows what the future will hold!
--- True enough. Sas+sata will become enterprise only -- probably priced out of consumer market, with consumer having no peripherals or hookups to allow importing or exporting content... : -/
No, I don't think that will happen. I think you will see both types of disks on the same machine. One internal for the system and home, others for large storage.
Then there is need for external storage.
Yes, but there are already MS Surface PCs with a NVMe drive internally and a single USB port.
No exposed sata at all. In a few years I can easily envision motherboards for desktops with zero sata ports.
I'm not saying good or bad about that. It's just reality that NVMe will replace sata for a lot of PC users in the next few years. As I said, I already see it routinely in my clients PCs. I've had my hands on about 15 client owned PCs in the last month. 3 had NVMe based primary storage (all laptops).
Well, I have a minimal footprint machine, an MSI Cubi N, which can hold one laptop NVMe inside, or one laptop rotating disk, but the later needs a little chassis addon (included in packaging). No standard SATA or eSATA ports, but four USB3 ports, of which I use two for big external hard disks. I can imagine many laptops coming with NVME, yes, and a portion of those having no SATA bays. On desktop machines I have my doubts. Users needing lots of disk space will keep using rotating disks or plain SSDs, simply because of costs. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAloyg8AACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VsnQCfVI84TLOmpNlo8te7Po2OtGPY v7sAn2zhS06TITPenBNH56KsivobW3iL =EIeY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org