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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: 0.194s | source
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gary_0 ◴[15 Dec 25 17:25 UTC] No.46277451[source]▶
I wonder if this move has anything to do with SATA SSDs being a common upgrade for older PCs, but those will just go in the trash now that Windows 10 is EOL and Windows 11 will refuse to run on most of them? (I assume only a small percentage will be switched to Linux instead.)
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zamadatix ◴[15 Dec 25 18:01 UTC] No.46278009[source]▶
If I were to bet on my hunches: At least half, leaning more, of that 20% buying SATA SSDs is probably momentum of people who didn't know they could get a better performing m.2 NVMe drive for the same price. Few people are upgrading PCs with SSDs for the first time in 2025 and those that are probably didn't really need SATA, they just searched for SATA/saw SATA.

I don't really know how one would get numbers for any of the above one way or the other though.

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0cf8612b2e1e ◴[15 Dec 25 18:58 UTC] No.46278746[source]▶
I prefer SSDs because the connector is so much more accessible. Ripping out the video card and futzing with the pain of that tiny NVME screw is no fun.

I am almost never IO blocked where the performance difference between the two matters. I guess when I do the initial full backup image of my drive, but after that, everything is incremental.

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1. wtallis ◴[15 Dec 25 19:08 UTC] No.46278873[source]▶
> I prefer SSDs because the connector is so much more accessible. Ripping out the video card and futzing with the pain of that tiny NVME screw is no fun.

This doesn't make sense as written. I suspect you meant to say "SATA SSDs" (or just "SATA") in the first sentence instead of "SSDs", and M.2 instead of NVMe in the second sentence. This kind of discussion is much easier to have when it isn't polluted by sloppy misnaming.