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Samsung may end SATA SSD production soon

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108 points Krontab | 2 comments | 15 Dec 25 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 1.168s | source
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1970-01-01 ◴[15 Dec 25 17:19 UTC] No.46277348[source]▶
What I want to know is if this is the beginning of the end of the SATA era. Once one major player leaves, others are sure to follow, and soon quality no longer matters, and finally the tech atrophies. I don't want to be forced to have my spinning platters connected via NVMe and a series of connector adapters.
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1. throwaway94275 ◴[15 Dec 25 17:25 UTC] No.46277450[source]▶
PCIe SATA adapters will likely be around forever. They may be problematic to boot from, but A) I'm sure your OS isn't on a spinning disk, and B) by the time PCIe SATA adapters disappear the entire concept of a PC will be an outlawed or legacy retro thing anyway.
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2. tracker1 ◴[15 Dec 25 23:44 UTC] No.46282649[source]▶
Agreed... although it would be nice to find easier support for older formats, they do stick around for a while. I've got a 3.5" USB floppy in my garage that's been sitting for over a decade now, and even then it was long after CD/BR and thumb drives were the norm.