I must be one of the few who thinks we would be better without M.2, Sata Express, U.2, mSATA.



I can see a real mess because there is so many different standards which you use to connect a drive internally to the motherboard. I swear on SATA 3 because there are no compatibility problems out there and unless there is one universal standard which will be succesor to SATA 3 I will be sticking with it.



When people use so many different interfaces inside PCs it makes compatibility problems harder.



They should just make more compact SATA connector (and SATA power) and better software interface like "NVMe over SATA" and use it instead of SATA, SATA Express, U.2, M.2, mSATA.

3D SSDs are already small enough they just need a smaller universal connector and a new standard defined size.



I would not mind only two (PCIe gets a pass since it is not exactly a consumer like) connectors like SATA and some other one but now we get another one and that takes it too far.

Posted on Sep 15th 2015, 18:35 Reply