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Well it's sdx because they both use the SATA interface. The sdx convention actually comes from scsi though, and the fact that SATA and USB drives use it might point to some code reuse, or maybe a temporary solution that never got fixed due to breaking backwards compatibility.
Fun fact: IDE drives use the hdx naming convention.
I still muscle-memory type
/dev/hd[TAB]
once in a while when looking for storage devices.I thought they standardized on sd* even for IDE drive a few years back...
Yeah, that's what I think as well...
Got a few old rigs with IDE drives in them running Void x86, the drives in
/dev
are namedsdx
.I didn't know that. Maybe nvme hasn't been added to the standard yet then.
No, they decided that nvme were too fancy to be modeled by mundane 'sdxn' scheme. They hypothetically have 'namespaces' and 'controller paths' and they wanted to have the naming scheme model that fully.
Yeah, but I think they switched to also use sdx for IDE devices as well.
Virtual drives also have a fun and relevant prefix!
Yea, I get that the s in sdX stands for sata, but why cant we have an ndX with n for nvme?