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[-] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 101 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 48 points 1 year ago

I still muscle-memory type /dev/hd[TAB] once in a while when looking for storage devices.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 year ago

I thought they standardized on sd* even for IDE drive a few years back...

[-] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 named sdx.

[-] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I didn't know that. Maybe nvme hasn't been added to the standard yet then.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but I think they switched to also use sdx for IDE devices as well.

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Virtual drives also have a fun and relevant prefix!

[-] frathiemann@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Yea, I get that the s in sdX stands for sata, but why cant we have an ndX with n for nvme?

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