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A few weeks ago Micron announced it’s exiting the Crucial consumer business to focus on AI. Yesterday, a Samsung leak suggested they may end production of budget SATA SSDs for the same reason.

It’s hard not to see a pattern. If consumer hardware keeps getting sidelined, homelabbers and self-hosters lose affordable ways to own their data and run their own systems.

Feels like we’re being nudged toward the cloud by economics rather than choice. Maybe it’s time to treat hard drives like a scarce resource.

Are we overreacting, or is consumer-owned hardware being quietly phased out?

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defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago 💬 2

Ive been having the same thoughts and concerns - its not looking good and it's inherently anti-consumer moves these corpos are doing, as predictable as every bit of cyberpunk dystopian sci-fi has been suggesting for decades.

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6123bc04... 2w ago

I just looked at a Samsung SATA SSD drive I bought at the end of 2023; it's doubled since. It will double again in the next 18 months with whatever supply is left. Glad I got one for my PS5 already. Do they dare stop making use 3.5 drives next?

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defaultuser0 🌀 2w ago

I do fear they are going to stranglehold the consumer tech market - greedy economics make it that way by design, consumer hostility is just the unfortunate byproduct imo. R I P to tech hobbyists like myself and others here 🫡💀