SATA SSD's a thing of the past?

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yeah I find that hard to believe -  but I must say I have noticed a bit of a slow down in folks wanting to spend the money on upgrading hdd to sata ssd, presumably because of the win 10 end of support next year...

I guess it will come down to how many of the older pcs that qualify for win 11 upgrade came with sata HDDs that could be upgraded to SSD.

I can see Sata SSDs taking over mechanical hdds in the large storage format, I mean ssds must be cheaper to produce than the big old mechanical beasts... They just need to come down in price a bit

NVME will always have a price premium over sata ssd because of the performance gains, so for a while at least sata ssds might be used for secondary drives...

Now I could see the sata m.2 variety being discontinued, it's already pretty much gone now, maybe the PB chimp was getting confused with that.  half them wouldn't know the distinction between m.2 nvme and sata

That will definitely change things for sure with the end of win10 support.
In fact it might see many more people forced to upgrade their PCs in coming years, there are a ton of older machines running windows 10, ive even come across someone that installed win11 on a core 2 machine with the hack. Didnt run very well!
Funny you say about the SATA m.2 drives.
I got caught out once on a laptop that i thought was using an NVME drive, but was actually using a SATA drive and was only when i come to install the drive and discovered that the notch was missing that it had a SATA drive installed, was very difficult to find one and had to shop around, and that was about 2 years ago.

as an aside I generally only ever use the samsung evos, they have plenty of stock of them, 250gb is a bit low but it's only another $10 or so for 500GB.  Not a fan of crucial or kingston myself

I agree Samsung is typically the best brand, I used to use them alot, but cost wise the cruicial and kingston drives are almost half the price.
Ironically ive never had any fail for me yet, but i have had a handful of samsungs fail for me, including a samsung pro. Still way more reliable than an HDD though.