Absolutely. That's why in newer computers with M.2 storage I'm delighted to find the existence of SATA SSD storage in M.2 form factor. Now I don't have to pay NVMe prices any more.
Whereas with Apple, I believe the only choice is NVMe storage. What if I want more but slower SSD storage?
>in newer computers with M.2 storage I'm delighted to find the existence of SATA SSD storage in M.2 form factor Now I don't have to pay NVMe prices any more.
In which year do you live in? New computers haven't been shipping with M2 SATA storage since like ~2018, and SATA SSDs haven't been cheaper than NVME since at least ~2020. NVME has been cheaper than SATA for many years already.
You mean M.2 SATA storage is available cheaper than M.2 NVMe where you live? Over here there are very few options in M.2 SATA form factor and the prices are almost double that of M.2 NVMe, which is really not that suprising given the obviously very much higher volumes of NVMe parts.
I think this is backwards? NVMe should be faster than SATA. I don’t think Apple uses either though. They directly connect the CPU to storage on the SoC. Another commenter above is saying they don’t even use PCIe.
NVMe is faster than SATA. But for my purposes SATA is fast enough; I just hope manufacturers would make SATA SSDs cheaper than NVMe SSDs. But alas that's not the case.
Whereas with Apple, I believe the only choice is NVMe storage. What if I want more but slower SSD storage?