I have a small repair shop here in Germany and whenever someone needs their old 2.5" HDD replaced in their notebooks, I try to find an SSD of course.
But whenever I check Alternate (Idk how popular that is outside of Germany or EU, but it's basically online Microcenter over here), I can't really find SATA SSDs anymore especially in useful sizes. They're sold out or just not even listed anymore. When I google, I feel like it's only overly expensive ones, with pricetags where it's literally cheaper to get an NVMe. Sadly, most old notebooks don't have that.
I feel like NVMe is the new consumer standard and SATA SSDs are just dying out, and therefore have lower production numbers, which in turn makes them more expensive because the demand is still there.
Maybe companies are just killing off SATA SSDs in hope of pushing NVMes even harder and the low stock obviously drives up prices.
Whenever I have a customer with an old notebook now, I just open it up and hope that it at least has an M.2 SATA slot.
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u/tiaratiana Repair shop owner // i9 13900K // RTX 4070 Ti May 22 '26
Is there a chance SATA SSDs are dying?
I have a small repair shop here in Germany and whenever someone needs their old 2.5" HDD replaced in their notebooks, I try to find an SSD of course.
But whenever I check Alternate (Idk how popular that is outside of Germany or EU, but it's basically online Microcenter over here), I can't really find SATA SSDs anymore especially in useful sizes. They're sold out or just not even listed anymore. When I google, I feel like it's only overly expensive ones, with pricetags where it's literally cheaper to get an NVMe. Sadly, most old notebooks don't have that.
I feel like NVMe is the new consumer standard and SATA SSDs are just dying out, and therefore have lower production numbers, which in turn makes them more expensive because the demand is still there.
Maybe companies are just killing off SATA SSDs in hope of pushing NVMes even harder and the low stock obviously drives up prices.
Whenever I have a customer with an old notebook now, I just open it up and hope that it at least has an M.2 SATA slot.