Samsung stoppt SATA-SSD-Produktion, Leaker warnt vor bis zu 18 Monaten anhaltendem SSD-Preisdruck, schlimmer als bei Micron, der Consumer-RAM einstellt
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Samsung-to-halt-SATA-SSD-production-leaker-warns-of-up-to-18-months-of-SSD-price-pressure-worse-than-Micron-ending-consumer-RAM.1184896.0.html
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Is it? It’s been a decade since sata was the primary interface.
Oh it’s just the SATA variant, I don’t think anyone buys them anyway.
SATA is dead anyways
Jokes on them I’m still using spinning disks
Well that sucks. Not too much, but still sucks
Thank the Computer Age Gods I upgraded my PC last year.
Who the fuck are all those people „not using sata anyways“? Most consumer motherboards have 1-2 nvme interfaces and 4-6 sata ones, so unless you have a single drive, you’ll have to use sata. Lots of budget office-grade prebuilds use regular sata ssds. High capacity sata drives are also significantly cheaper than nvme. Holy reddit bubble.
The article doesn’t say why Samsung is halting data ssd production. Can anyone enlighten me?
Between Windows 11 being an insufferable, bloated slog made to accelerate the obsolescence of otherwise good PCs, and manufacturers winding down production of affordable hardware in times of high demand…
What is happening here is what already happened in the Auto industry: manufacturers want to earn more by producing less and selling less, but to people that pays more. Why would I make and sell a hatchback, if I can sell a small suv that is made on the same platform of a hatchback, costs a little more to make but is marketed as a „premium“ product so I can charge almost twice? Now do that with PC hardware.
so.. are we witnessing the collusion of the market??? like… is all of this legal? there has to be some very shady behind the scenes agreements happening…
So glad I built a new pc earlier this year. Seems like we’re going to have a couple years of ridiculous prices. Hopefully most people aren’t building with SATA at this point.
Bought a new 2T M.2 a week or two ago. Just in case.
btw, in Finnish price site prices of some m.2 ssd’s
12.12 ->14.12
300e -> 390e
160e -> 210e
120e -> 170e
etc.
Great! I have 6 8tb samsung sata ssds in a raid.. should i buy one extra just in case there is a failure in the future that i cant really use for anything sigh
I think this conclusion drawn in the article is poor. And I think the writer even knows it is. Having to add the „finished products“ to this line: ‚By comparison, Samsung exiting SATA SSDs removes an entire class of finished consumer products from one of the worlds biggest NAND suppliers‘.
It doesn’t mean there won’t be SSDs using Samsung NAND. Or even SATA SSDs using Samsung NAND. Just Samsung won’t sell them. And likely they aren’t selling many anyway.
Leaving servers aside, only lower cost builds use SATA SSDs. And lower cost builds use lower cost SSDs, not Samsungs. Surely Samsung is selling only a tiny portion of SATA SSDs now outside of the server market.
I don’t know what to say about the server market. It’s a big market all its own. I don’t know what percentage of the market SATA represents. People here act like servers are using the 4 onboard SATA ports on a motherboard for SSDs. But I would expect SSD servers are using PCIe expanders (PCIe switch) chips to create more PCIe lanes and then attaching NVMe SSDs to those. I expect SATA SSDs are not the largest part of the server market. But again, I can’t be sure as I don’t have close familiarity with those.
In short, I think the thing setting the entry price for SSDs is not Samsung but the low end SSD makers. And they aren’t affected by this change. So I don’t think this will cause a large ripple in the market. At least not as large as what the article suggests.
The guy at my local computer shop didn’t believe me when I said SSDs were next to moon in pricing after RAM, unfortunately, here we are.