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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)
submitted 8 months ago by [M] to c/hardware@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] [S] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

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)

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

    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

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