Samsung is reportedly preparing to wind down its SATA SSD business, and a notable hardware leaker warns the move could have broader implications for consumer storage pricing than Micron’s decision to end its Crucial RAM lineup. The report suggests reduced supply and short-term price pressure may follow as the market adjusts.
More and more I’m simultaneously glad I did some upgrades at the start of the year and dreading my next component failure
Who even makes decent SATA SSDs now Crucial & Samsung are out? I’ve got a NAS I was planning to build in the next year or so that made heavy use of SATA SSDs. Looks like Western Digital seem to be the one big company still going for now (and frankly I’d have never picked them over Crucial or Samsung)
Looks like Kioxia make some too (I thought they only did server stuff) but not in big capacities
Might be back to the drawing board…
Do you really need SATA SSDs for a NAS though?
From my understanding SATA SSDs would work better for smaller files, but for bigger files (e.g. media) the benefits seem to be minimal (much more so if you don’t have a 10 GB network connection)
The SSD part was predominantly for hosting music production sample libraries and instrument data (so, lots of random small files), where quick random access over TBs of data is desirable. I’ve also got a few other use cases where having a lot of networked SSD storage is beneficial if not perhaps necessary (my RAW photo library in lightroom is another one fairly significant one that pops to mind).
For consumption media, that’s 100% going on a slower pool of spinning disks, my plan is/was a mixed media setup
That’s a reasonable use case for SATA SSDs.