Is SATA3 dead?

extra-ordinary_

I was about to pull the trigger on a black Friday cheap SATA SSD when I started thinking was this old tech I was buying? Are there other storage options available to me on a motherboard that has no M.2 slots? Can I get an NVME drive that I can slot in a PCIe slot?

smuggler.ie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058219948/is-sata3-dead

There are, think you ready for this price tag? :D and its overkill for standard user.

If MoBo does not have M.2, with adapter card M.2 runs just fine, using one, however, if its for C:\ drive you need to be sure your board does support boot from PCIe

Depending on what you use PC's for, SATA SSD might be grand for good while

extra-ordinary_

Thanks for the link...originally I thought I had a link for a few hundred euro for a Startech dual M.2 card but now can't seem to find it and I see all the ones I'm getting now are similarly priced to your link, so not sure what I was at. My computer needs are not great but who doesn't want faster, although it's looking fairly like the visible performance increase on SATA SSDs is negligible, so I think I'll hold out for maybe my next mainboard purchase, whenever that is (!), where I see now many are coming with two if not three M.2 slots.

smuggler.ie

As said, depend what you use it for.... See this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DKLA7w9eeA , gives you some hint.