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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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tart-lemonade ◴[15 Dec 25 16:25 UTC] No.46276589[source]▶
I can't say I'm surprised, but I am disappointed. The SATA SSD market has basically turned into a dumping ground for low quality flash and controllers, with the 870s being the only consistently good drives still in production after Crucial discontinued the MX500.

It's the end of an era.

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crote ◴[15 Dec 25 16:57 UTC] No.46277031[source]▶
The thing is, what's the market for them?

If you care even remotely about speed, you'll get an NVMe drive. If you're a data hoarder who wants to connect 50 drives, you'll go for spinning rust. Enterprise will go for U.3.

So what's left? An upgrade for grandma's 15-year-old desktop? A borderline-scammy pre-built machine where the listed spec is "1TB SSD" and they used the absolute cheapest drive they can find? Maybe a boot drive for some VM host?

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nemomarx ◴[15 Dec 25 17:00 UTC] No.46277074[source]▶
Where do you add more storage after you've used your 1-2 nvme slots and the m.2?

I would think an SSD is going to be better than a spinning disc even with the limits of sata if you want to archive things or work with larger data or whatever

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0134340 ◴[15 Dec 25 20:15 UTC] No.46279935[source]▶
There are SATA SSD enclosures for M.2 drives. Those are cheap enough now that granny can still upgrade her old PC on the cheap.
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1. wtallis ◴[15 Dec 25 21:00 UTC] No.46280570[source]▶
Link? An adapter allowing a M.2 SATA SSD to be used in a 2.5" SATA enclosure is cheap and dead simple: just needs a 5V to 3.3V regulator. But that doesn't help. Connecting a M.2 NVMe SSD to a SATA host port would be much more exotic, and I don't recall ever hearing about someone producing the silicon necessary to make that work.