For years the Samsung 870 QVO 8TB has been the workhorse of my file servers. They're the perfect blend of size and speed (I couldn't care less about extended write performance) and during the pandemic they retailed for as low as $350. With a large SAS controller I can easily plug 32 into a server.
I recently went shopping for spares and discovered Samsung has discontinued the QVO line. I poked around and it seems nobody else makes an 8TB SATA SSD either, just NVMe drives. That's fine for a typical PC but if a RAID drive fails I need to swap in a replacement and I can't exactly plug an NVMe drive into a SATA port. This leaves me feeling a bit vulnerable.
Is there anyone out there who makes an 8TB SATA SSD?
Is there any way to connect an NVMe drive to a SATA port?