Niche use to me but maybe common to others. Thermals is probably the biggest drawback of nvme drives.Jep4444 wrote: ↑ One place where I still prefer SATA to NVMe is external enclosures. NVMe enclosures are more expensive and the drives produce more heat. Also, given the cost of Thunderbolt enclosures, most people are going to opt for a USB C enclosure and those cap at 10Gbps anyways. Yes that's faster than SATA's 6Gbps but the extra cost and stress on the drives due to poorer thermals make me lean SATA when the performance gap isn't huge.
The main advantage for SATA for me, is simply just way more ports vs nvme ports (my mobo has two).