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Samsung may end SATA SSD production soon

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108 points Krontab | 3 comments | 15 Dec 25 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.497s | source
1. 8cvor6j844qw_d6 ◴[15 Dec 25 16:33 UTC] No.46276696[source]▶
If Samsung (maybe) ends SSD production and Crucial existing the consumer business, what is the next best alternative for SSD products?

I thought Samsung was the de facto choice for high-quality SSD products.

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2. iooi ◴[15 Dec 25 16:33 UTC] No.46276709[source]▶
SATA, not NVMe, they will still be making SSDs.
3. tracker1 ◴[16 Dec 25 00:07 UTC] No.46282878[source]▶
there are more non-crucial suppliers of Micron based ram than Crucial... they can pick up the slack... Micron simply wanted to redirect resources to supporting larger contracts to other suppliers over direct consumer support. The market isn't shrinking as a result.

I would suspect the same with Samsung exiting SATA (not NVME) drives... their chips are likely to be used by other MFGs, but even then maybe not as SATA is much slower than what most solid state memory and controllers are capable of supporting. There's also a massive low-end market of competition for SATA SSDs and Samsung sales are likely not the best overall.