2.5" SSDs

Samsung are stopping production of SSDs to concentrate on DRAM and NVME for data centre use. Meanwhile Crucial has stopped selling to Consumers and is again going to concentrate on the data centre (Ai) market. Round about Jan - Feb 26.

In reference to wccftech.com/no-samsung-isnt-phasing-out-of-the-consumer-ssd-business/:

Samsung’s consumer SSDs aren’t going anywhere. In an exclusive statement to us, a company spokesperson denied rumors that Samsung plans to phase out SATA SSD production.

Interesting. Doesn't mention 2.5" SSDs and has pictures of NVME.

Edited by Banger (Mon 15-Dec-25 20:15:28)

But it specifically mentions SATA disks. Forget the library pictures.

Yes I spotted that. Was looking for replacements when my Crucial and Corsair SSDs run out of life.

the move to HBM4E (from hbm3e) will occur in 2026, and that memory is basically used for ai, it has no consumer space at all. So it looks as some have fibbed a bit.

Supply will catch up with ai, and ai uptake is slow as the higher prices will affect them too.

That said new fabs will need to be produced, as every economy relies on dram, and high dram affects inflation it is self defeating to main insane pricing.

Who use Samsung anyway? I have never had a Samsung SSD, too expensive, the ones I have in my Mac hub is a Crucial P3 4TB and a Maxtor Sata 1TB, which is Seagate anyway. I did get an Integral for my Raspberry Pi NAS and it is working fine.

Not sure what to buy now if i wanted a SSD for speed, I expect it would be Seagate, which is strange really because I went off seagate

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

Who use Samsung anyway?

I've used for years. The magician software (for Windows and Linux) is useful. I used Crucial for a while but as we read Micron are exiting the consumer world.

Samsung denies:

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/memory/samsung-will...

https://www.techspot.com/news/110613-samsung-denies-...

Interesting. My Seagate HDD from April 2011 just died so am in the market. Seen a couple of refurbished Samsungs on Ebay worth a shot as dirt cheap?

Thing I have found with spinny disks, Seagates = catastrophic failure, this one totally dead. WD Green and Red = bad sectors after a number of years. Hitachi so far so good about the same age as the Seagate that failed.

Edited by Banger (Thu 18-Dec-25 22:49:02)