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"Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM"
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@jbz I'm getting more and more anxious about the state of my backups since it's looking more and more likely I won't be able to afford an immediate replacement in the event of a failure.
My *everything* will go on ice for a bit while I save up for the drive I can restore to and I'll cross my fingers nothing else fails in the meantime.
"According to Tom, the key issue is not whether SATA SSDs are technologically outdated, but how much supply they still represent. He points out that roughly 20% of Amazon’s top SSD bestsellers are still SATA-based, with Samsung drives making up a notable portion of that list. Pulling that volume out of the market, even gradually, reduces overall SSD availability, which in turn puts upward pressure on pricing for both SATA and NVMe drives."
"By comparison, Samsung exiting SATA SSDs removes an entire class of finished consumer products from one of the world’s largest NAND suppliers. Tom argues that this is why the Samsung move is “worse” for consumers: it directly affects how many drives are available, not just who sells them"
@jbz wait…we won’t be able to upgrade our hard drives _at all_ anymore?? Like if our motherboards are from before the NVMe era?