▲ | IgnaciusMonk 2 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Writing SATA to NVME adapter is nonsensical endeavor. It is as writing RoCE to HTTPS adapter. Makes no sense at all. And im not even talking about voltages etc. Any NVME disk can be connected even over PCIE3 x1 so there is plenty of capability on DESKTOP computers he is "managing". And what is he writing and how is he writing it is unbelievable that he can not seem to understand what SAS expander is etc. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | userbinator 2 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
No, it makes as much sense as USB-NVMe, which does exist, and as the article mentions, so does the other direction (a PCIe SATA controller in the shape of an M.2 SSD) but there's just not enough of a market for NVMe-SATA yet. They're just block device protocols, and the conversion between them is well-defined. A bidirectional example is IDE/SATA, for which plentiful cheap adapters in both directions (one IC automatically detects its role) exist; IDE host to SATA device, or SATA host to IDE device. For another "directional" example, it's worth noting that SATA to MMC/(micro/mini)SD(HC/XC)/TF adapters exist which let you use those cards (often multiple, even in RAID!) as a SATA drive, but the opposite direction, exposing a SATA drive as an SD card, does not (yet). | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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