Space on motherboards is precious and NVME / M.2 drives require a lot. SATA is old tech, so why not just drop the SATA ports on the motherboard and supply an add-in SATA card for one of the x1 or x4 slots instead? Or even an adapter for one of the M.2 slots.
When do you think this will happen?
I think it will take some generations. Board manufacturers have been very conservative to date and were slow to drop PATA / IDE drive and even the FDD port (SCSI, MFM, and RLL controllers were typically on add-in cards).
When do you think this will happen?
I think it will take some generations. Board manufacturers have been very conservative to date and were slow to drop PATA / IDE drive and even the FDD port (SCSI, MFM, and RLL controllers were typically on add-in cards).