Comment on Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM

Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A SATA SSD is a good way to speed up an aging machine, one without M2 slot. But glad to know I qualify as a professional user.

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  • DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You could still stick an NVMe drive on an older system as a secondary drive, eg. as a /home drive if you’re running Linux on it, by sticking it on a riser card, although you’d still need to boot off a SATA drive, and you’d take up one of your expansion slots doing that.

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  • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    M2 slots are standard for more than a decade.

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    • Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And those machines are still good enough to browse the web, or for text processing. I usually set them up with a small SSD for booting fast and a large HDD for the /home folder. Hell I keep a D410PT around for the times I need an absolutely silent machine (Well, as soon as I buy a picoATX for it, it will be. Too bad I missed the computer-2 case).

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      • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Does Samsung even sell a small SSD? I thought they start at like 128GB

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• Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I needed a SATA SSD for my raspberry pi 4 connected via usb3.

  I am a home user.

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  • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fair point. What the fuck are you doing with it?

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    • kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Do you enjoy being an ass?

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      • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I was trying to convey confusion as to what a cheap microcomputer could even be used for that needs that much fast storage. They ought not to be using it for scientific compute, that’s for sure.

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    • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Jellyfin media server. I have another one acting as my router (with a small managed switch and openWRT) and one more pi5 i am using as a retro console. That one uses 2 nvme m.2 drives but the pi4 doesnt support nvme, only sata.

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      • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That works with a raspberry? Those tiny 10€ microcomputers?

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Motherboards have limited M.2 slots though. I can add more SATA SSDs to easily expand my steam library - or even mix SSDs and HDDs in a cursed LVM.

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• Limonene@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Three years ago, I replaced a failing SATA SSD in my personal laptop with a new SATA SSD. That laptop had plenty of power, and I’d still be using it today if the keyboard still worked, and the screen hinges weren’t cracked. It had no NVME slots.

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