CE-ATA standard - not yet a mayor?

Question

Iron

HDDs with such an interface are almost never produced. From 1.8 ", there are mainly either IDE of two varieties (ZIF-PATA and CompactFlash), or SATA of two varieties (ZIF-SATA and MicroSATA). An adapter from 18-pin ZIF-CE to MMC so that the drive can be connected to I didn’t find a slot for SD / MMC in any Chinese, although I even come across such a perversion as a reverse adapter from SD to MicroSD (with a container for an SD card, a ribbon cable and a plug in the form of MicroSD). ceased to exist, which causes unpleasant forebodings.As
far as I can see, the maximum capacity of the CE-ATA HDDs available for sale is 160GB.Question
: is the standard still alive or not?
It's no secret that most ARM machines do not have SATA, and the only way to connect a screw to them with the ability to boot from it is to use a CE-ATA HDD. Application: where many write operations are required in conditions of pocket mobility. Namely, pocket torrent servers, highly autonomous CCTV systems, a hardware Bitcoin wallet. The reason for the low distribution of CE-ATA is generally understandable: the percentage of a modern smartphone has time to become morally obsolete before the on-board flash memory exhausts all rewriting cycles.

Answer 1

Dead, and if not dead, then do not move!
Most ARM platforms are SD-card capable.
SATA and SD-card are the standard now, the IDE/ATA train is long gone. Or, if we talk about surveillance systems, then use network recorders or NAS.

Answer 2

The era of ata ended a very long time ago, recently I wanted to connect an ideal cider, it turned out there was nowhere