According to the latest revelation from Moore’s Law Is Dead channel host Tom, Samsung is preparing to gradually withdraw from its SATA SSD business.He said he has obtained independent confirmation from sources in multiple distribution and retail channels that Samsung plans to discontinue SATA SSD production in the long term.
Tom believes that Samsung's withdrawal from SATA SSD may have more serious consequences for consumer hardware prices than Micron's discontinuation of Crucial's consumer memory business.
Because Micron will still supply DRAM chips to third-party brands, the overall supply has not changed, while Samsung has directly removed an entire category of products, which is a real reduction in supply.
Although SATA SSD is no longer as important as NVMe today, it still occupies a large share in the retail market, especially in the entry-level PC field.
Tom emphasized that the key issue is that Samsung, a major supplier, withdraws from the market, even if it is done gradually, it will lead to a reduction in the overall supply of SSDs.
This tightening of supply will inevitably put overall upward pressure on the prices of all SSD products, including SATA and NVMe, especially in the short to medium term.
Regarding the future, Tom said that he expects that once manufacturers switch to consumer hardware around 2027, pricing pressure will ease again, but the era of low-priced SATA SSDs, especially Samsung's products, may be gone forever.
