Kaido
Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
- Feb 14, 2004
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You might be surprised. The Skylake board in my current build has 3x m.2 slots on it, just tied into the pcie lanes. That's totally seperate from the 6? 8? SATA connections on it. It'll usurp SATA very soon (another generation or two) for SSD connections. SATA will be left to the platter drives.
I agree, even laptops are using the new storage form-factor now. And it's sooooo easy just screwing in those little NVMe sticks into the motherboards...no mounting the drive, no a running power cable, no running a data cable. And on the more modern desktop CPU chips, you don't even need a crazy-huge cooling system for the CPU if you don't OC due to the shrinking die size. The new 4.2ghz i7-7700k Kaby Lake only sucks up 91 watts TDP, which is pretty insane for a processor that turbos up to 4.5ghz!