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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 (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[–] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

With NVME being the mainstream standard for flash storage, I'm curious what the use cases are for SATA SSDs in the consumer space? I haven't seen any PCs/laptops come with anything other than NVME drives as the main drive for years.

I have seen some examples of them being used as an alternative to spinning drives for faster NAS systems but that's still pretty niche. Being worse than the Micron decision seems like a stretch imho.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I have Linux and Windows on NVME drives, but I also have 3 SATA SSDs that I install games on. My board only supports 2 NVME drives, but I have 6 SATA ports, and the performance difference in load times is negligible.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    That makes sense and was also my initial config (minus windows) with my current build. If I was making a purchase decision today with prices as they are, I probably would've waited to swap out the SATA for NVME.

    I still don't think there's enough demand for SATA SSDs for this to become much of a talking point like RAM has and it's only going keep declining.

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