Would you buy a motherboard with no SATA ports?

Quartz · 29 Sep 2021 at 18:28

My latest build (see sig) uses only NVME drives. The SATA ports sit unused. But they still consume valuable motherboard space and valuable chipset PCIe lanes. I could live with SATA ports being relegated to just two or even to an add-in card.

Edit: I’m not suggesting that no motherboard have SATA ports, just asking if one of the manufacturers made one without, would you be interested?

Quartz · 29 Sep 2021 at 19:32

EsaT said:
And M.2 doesn't take a space of about dozen SATA connectors?

The PCIe lanes associated with those SATA ports could be used for things like 10Gb ethernet.

Quartz · 29 Sep 2021 at 21:04

The_Arbiter said:
No. Give it a few years still.

I'm not suggesting it should be standard, just if you would buy one were the option available . It took over a decade to get rid of PATA / IDE.

Quartz · 2 Oct 2021 at 10:28

To answer my own question, I definitely see motherboards with no SATA ports becoming normal in the corporate space. The fewer the wires the better. It's already normal with laptops.