Samsung Sets The Record Straight On Future SSD Storage Plans

Are we about to lose another NAND flash brand in the consumer storage space? Following Micron's decision to pull its 29-year-old Crucial brand from the consumer market to focus on higher margin data center clients, rumors began to swirl that Samsung was getting ready to stop selling SATA-based solid state drive (SSDs) to consumers. According to Samsung, however, it's fake news.

The rumor traces to Moore's Law Is Dead, a popular (and some would say controversial) leaker on YouTube, who claimed to have heard from one of his "best sources in distribution" that Samsung is planning to announce in January that it was "ending SATA SSD production at some point in the next couple of years and halting sales of SATA SSDs to new customers" without outstanding contracts waiting to be filled.

This sparked a flurry of headlines, one of which called it "another blow" to gamers ...