[quotemsg=18815657,0,2054346]Repeating what you have already said without addressing the comments of others doesn't really add much to a conversation. I don't think anyone here is arguing that SATA is a superior standard over PCIe as far as data transfer goes. PCIe is clearly better.
However, most are arguing that calling SATA obsolete is ignoring many ways that keeping SATA support is beneficial to both manufacturers and consumers. These include cheaper disk costs due to simpler controllers, the availability of large SATA HDDs that are still cheaper per GB than any SSD on the market, and others that I and several others have listed in other posts.[/quotemsg]
LOL, the comments were addressed, you are obviously not paying attention. I am specifically referring to SATA storage vs NVMe and some act like a bunch of elementary school girls with their knickers in a bunch having a mental breakdown out over the idea that SATA will soon be obsolete. Not my problem. If the SATA fundy's are stuck on SATA I could care less. If all you care about is cheap, old, outdated crap soon to be obsolete that is your issue not mine. VGA was super cheap too - you still using it?
Factoid: SATA sucks for storage and will start being obsolete by 2020. Remember, VGA got pretty cheap too and it took like 10 years to get rid of it. We certainly need SATA for now but, it should start being considered obsolete by 2020 and begin to disappear from motherboards to make more room for more NVMe SSD connections. I just hope SATA doesn't turn into the next VGA and linger for 10 years.
No point clinging to old obsolete, outdated and super slow technology that is capped at super slow speeds with an ACHI interface that will never ever get beyond 600MB/s. SATA has been a huge bottleneck keeping HD's and storage super slow for years.
Price premiums for new far better technology has always been there and is no surprise and it is also no surprise that over time prices will drop. So, before long all of these pro-SATA arguments you mention will be utterly irrelevant and moot. Sticking with SATA holds back progress.
What part of this do you not understand:
"The SATA 1.5Gb/s bottleneck was quickly exceeded, followed by SATA 3.0Gb/s, and within a year of SATA 6.0Gb/s there were drives that could saturate even that interface. Faster alternatives were needed, but the interface was only part of the problem."
http://www.pcgamer.com/best-nvme-ssds/
"Starting in October, the DemoEval lab will be hosting clusters for Silicon Valley startups using all NVMe SSDs. A year ago, these were SAS/ SATA clusters so the change is clearly upon us."
https://www.servethehome.com/going-fast-inexpensively-48tb-of-near-sata-pricing-nvme-ssds/