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Samsung may end SATA SSD production soon

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108 points Krontab | 1 comments | 15 Dec 25 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Neil44 ◴[15 Dec 25 16:18 UTC] No.46276482[source]▶
Samsung makes fast expensive storage but even cheap storage can max out SATA, hence there's no point Samsung trying to compete in the dwindling SATA space.
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mwambua ◴[15 Dec 25 17:02 UTC] No.46277119[source]▶
Does this mean that we'll start to see SATA replaced with faster interfaces in the future? Something like U.2/U.3 that's currently available to the enterprise?
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zamadatix ◴[15 Dec 25 17:52 UTC] No.46277882[source]▶
NVMe via m.2 remains more than fine for covering the consumer SSD use cases.
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zokier ◴[15 Dec 25 18:02 UTC] No.46278011[source]▶
Problem is that you only get pitiful amount of m2 slots in mainstream motherboards.
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1. Aurornis ◴[15 Dec 25 18:38 UTC] No.46278488[source]▶
Most consumer motherboards have 2-3 M.2 slots.

You can buy cheap add-in cards to use PCIe slots as M.2 slots, too.

If you need even more slots, there are add-in cards with PCIe switches which allow you to install 10+ M.2 drives into a single M.2 slot.