Question – And it’s happening: storage options will be limited without Samsung SATA SSD

It seems that the panic is starting to be contagious, next are likely to be the storage, then follows the motherboards and also the power supplies.

What’s next? screens? high tiers mouse and keyboards?

Honestly, even I’m in this boat now. I have 4 computers in my house (2 desktops, 1 fileserver, 1 laptop), and I bought 2 different 4TB NVME drives over the last couple of months to prepare for what I think will be, and so far it’s turned out as I’ve thought since prices have gone up and up, the next shortage and/or price hike scenario for the next couple of years. I pray none of my RAM dies, even though at the moment it would all still be within the warranty period except for my fileserver. FWIW I also keep a spare 1000w power supply around in case any of those die too, and I would not have wanted to buy my Thermaltake GF3 for a spare at today’s price of $230+ (I got mine for about $150 after taxes) either.

Also, it’s sad to read above that Samsung exited the 2.5in SSD market. Crucial and Samsung have been my go-to brands for 2.5in SSDs for like a decade at least. Thankfully I’m full up on 2.5in SSDs of all capacities and generally have been phasing those out for NVME storage. However, for pure storage, there are only 2-3 NVME slots on any given motherboard and there are typically 4-6 SATA ports, not to mention older systems can’t use NVME at all (I guess some can with a PCIe slot adapter if the BIOS supports it).