Samsung is reportedly preparing to wind down its SATA SSD business, and a notable hardware leaker warns the move could have broader implications for consumer storage pricing than Micron’s decision to end its Crucial RAM lineup. The report suggests reduced supply and short-term price pressure may follow as the market adjusts.
who wants to bet personal computers will become permanently unaffordable for regular people, and they will sell it back to us through a cloud subscription?
Makes sense considering most everything new uses M.2 these days, but bad news for those of us with older systems we still leverage that only have SATA.
Not only older systems, a lot of (home) storage servers still use sata ssd cause its proven tech and hotswappable (and easy to do so).
This is bad in every way to look at it, and everything to do with samsung selling the nand chips to other places with a bigger margin
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who wants to bet personal computers will become permanently unaffordable for regular people, and they will sell it back to us through a cloud subscription?
Yeah, honestly that seems like the most likely option. You get a glorified dumb terminal that accesses a compute instance under corporate control.
The memory mafia strikes again. Great.
“Just think of how cheap parts will be when the AI bubble collapses.” And other lies I tell myself as I go to sleep.
Makes sense considering most everything new uses M.2 these days, but bad news for those of us with older systems we still leverage that only have SATA.
Not only older systems, a lot of (home) storage servers still use sata ssd cause its proven tech and hotswappable (and easy to do so).
This is bad in every way to look at it, and everything to do with samsung selling the nand chips to other places with a bigger margin
I picked up a few today from smaller online stores before they realized. Will have to keep the servers running somehow