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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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[+] -29 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Discontinuing outdated tech has nothing to do with AI. SATA SSDs need to be retired. NVME is superior and widely available.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Especially since you can get M.2 to SATA adapters, so people stuck with SATA only motherboards can still upgrade their storage.

    Literally the same deal when companies stopped making IDE drives, people just used SATA to IDE adapters instead.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Do you know of any m.2 to SATA adapters that support NVMe? Or are these only for Sata M.2s?

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Man, it sure would be helpful for my argument if I could.

    I went back and checked the ones I was looking at, very helpful fine print stating "not for NVEM ssds", so they all only work with mSATA M.2 SSDs, hell of a let down.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Despite how similar the interface is the protocol is completely different. NVMe is basically just PCIe, so adaptating it so that it runs "under" SATA would be difficult if not almost impossible. And most definitely not worth the extra price.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Well no you can translate, but it just seems that nobody has actually made a product to do so.

    e.g. those M.2 SSD to USB adapters, those aren't speaking NVMe to the host device. They either talk the traditional USB "bulk transfer" protocol, or potentially SCSI, translating that to NVMe for the SSD itself.

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