How long more will S-ATA last for mainstream computing devices?

mundial

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A substantial number of high-end laptops now are of the "ultra-slim" variety.

A S-ATA disk does not fit well with an ultra-slim system. Moreover, there is a small performance hit
by not using some of the more modern interfaces.

Do you think this will be the death knell for S-ATA disks?

(And yes, of course there will still be custom PC builds and OEMs destops that will be using
S-ATA in 3-4 years time, but I am talking about the MAINSTREAM COMPUTING MARKET here)

 
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Deathknell? No, not even a little bit.
SATA is not going away for quite some time.

Go into any office. You'd be hardpressed to find any ultraslim devices, except among the marketing people or the C-suite.
You'd be hardpressed to find any m.2 connection drives in all the rest of the systems.

Chromebooks, Surface, Apple thingies, tablets...sure.
But is that the 'mainstream'?

kanewolf

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"Mainstream" is a difficult term to define. Will tens of thousands of small towers be sold for office environments? Sure. Is that "Mainstream"? I don't know. I do believe you are thinking too narrowly about what is "Mainstream".

As long as spinning disks are the low cost storage medium, I believe SATA will be popular.
 

USAFRet

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Deathknell? No, not even a little bit.
SATA is not going away for quite some time.

Go into any office. You'd be hardpressed to find any ultraslim devices, except among the marketing people or the C-suite.
You'd be hardpressed to find any m.2 connection drives in all the rest of the systems.

Chromebooks, Surface, Apple thingies, tablets...sure.
But is that the 'mainstream'?
 
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