FilterHN

Yeah winter is coming. And it's not going to last only 6 months :'( I think it's best to buy soon and dig in for the storm to pass. Unless the AI Bubble pops spectacularly, but then the shockwaves to the global economy will be just as harmful as these price rises.

▲

ta9000

4 hours ago

[-]

No one should be buying a SATA SSD in 2025 if they have the option to use a PCIE SSD, which every new motherboard has at least one spot for. This isn’t AI, this is the ending of a standard.

▲

xyse53

4 hours ago

[-]

I get that for a boot / root drive but not for building a self hosted storage system. I'm not taking about cost of SATA SSD vs NVME; I haven't seen a lot of board+enclosure options that take enough M.2 disks.

▲

out_of_protocol

4 hours ago

[-]

There's usually 1 or 2 spots for NVMe drives, but that's it. If you want more, fall back to SATA

▲

wtallis

4 hours ago

[-]

The cheapest motherboard + CPU bundles at Microcenter all include motherboards with three M.2 slots. There definitely are full-size ATX boards that only have two M.2 slots, but these days that's usually only because one of the PCIe slots is wired for x4 rather than just x1. Being able to connect three NVMe drives is not a rare or premium feature on current consumer desktop platforms.

▲

Longlius

4 hours ago

[-]

USB3.2 is almost twice as fast as SATA. If you want extra storage, get a USB-C or thunderbolt external drive.

▲

ursAxZA

18 hours ago

[-]

I’m not an expert, but VRAM and NAND seem to compete for the same upstream stuff — wafers, EUV steps, gases, fab time. If GPUs are printing money right now, cutting SATA SSD production feels like the easiest thing for a manufacturer to do.

▲

wtallis

4 hours ago

[-]

I don't think anyone is using EUV for NAND flash.

Cutting SATA SSD production is really just a reflection of the fact that NVMe has been mainstream for a decade, and both servers and consumer PCs have been using NVMe as the default SSD interface for years. The SATA SSD market is just not very big anymore, and certainly not big enough for Samsung to continue to care about.