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    [–] [email protected] 101 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] jj4211 11 points 9 months 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.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

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

    [–] toynbee 4 points 9 months ago

    Virtual drives also have a fun and relevant prefix!

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

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