It's incredible how much the prices have fallen and that's how it should be. Sure, I bought the 960 close to launch but still the difference is staggering.
The 960 Evo still chugs along albeit it's a new one because a few months after I bought it, I had to RMA it. I guess that's what happens when you are an early adopter. I lost a few hours of work when the original 960 Evo decided to stop working but it also taught me to be more paranoia with backups.
You young fellas sit back, I'mma tell you about the time in '96 that I bought a 1GB hard drive for a thousand doll-hairs. And then later that year got 64MB of RAM for another thousand doll-hairs, and the next month the price dropped in half. I could run two java programs AT THE SAME TIME!
For over a decade I've been waiting for HDD prices to fall to 10 € per TB. Guess I'll see that in SSDs first.
This is how hardware should work! Overtime what was bleeding edge is now the norm and as such should be priced accordingly..... Looking at you Nvidia
$109 for an 840 EVO 250 GB in November 2014. Still rocking it to this day. Was absolutely thrilled to get it then. People don't fully grasp the paradigm shift that SSDs brought in terms of boot times. For practically the first time in personal computing the average user had a quantifiable metric to judge a PC's speed. It's arguably the largest leap in terms of technology advancement to speed advancement in PCs.
Just today I was wondering why I only have a 500GB sata ssd in my Laptop and then I realized that I bought it in 2018 and the price difference was just not worth it at the time. Nowadays it feels like one might as well get a 2TB nvme. If prices keep falling like this soon a 4x4TB nvme NAS will be positively cheap!
My first job was in a computer store in 1994 and a 4MB stick of RAM for a PC was $140.
It's about time. SSD prices stagnated for years!
Here are my purchases over the past years:
Today the Samsung 970 EVO+ NVME 2TB is $109. The 870 EVO 4TB SATA is $170. Each about half the price as one year ago.
It's wild how cheap SSDs and ram are right now. It's so tempting to upgrade both on my main PC.
It's amazing seeing 2TB M.2 NVME drives being sold for less than what I bought my original 120GB SATA SSD for.
I bought 4TB Crucial ssd, MX500 for 87€, brand new. It was on huge sale. And 2y ago i paid almost 60€ for 512 gb same model... so yeah
You should note that the 960 is the one where Samsung got caught swapping in sub par bad performance parts into the same name. That's part why it got THAT cheap rather than it being a natural evolution.
Don't worry guys, manufacturer's are doing their best to cut supply to raise prices again. Gotta love them.
Deflation is beautiful, send more of those
Good to see the prices are going down when everything else is getting crazzy expensive.
I bought some SSD in 2019 worth of 290$ and payed with 0.5 ethereum. That would be 900+$ today kekw
I plan on building a new desktop sometime around black friday. Here's hoping we'll get some great deals like this then, too?
Amazing to see!
By this point do USB sticks make sense anymore as opposed to a super fast SSD inside an enclosure? It seems like the former hasn't seen any technical progress in years either
Even internal hard drives are falling in price every few months. A WD Red Pro 18 TB is cheaper than a 16TB two months ago. I guess the strategy is to wait until the last moment before you buy storage now.
Side note, join us at !buildapcsales@lemmy.ml for deals like this. We could use more folks in the growing community!
Pretty sure Apple still charges £300 😂
My first SSD was a 128 GB OCz Vertex3. Price comparable to the 2600K I bought it with.
I wonder then, if for low capacity NAS home systems using these consumer drives is a good idea. Drives certified with "NAS reliabilty", ssd or hdd, are still as expensive as they have always been, is it a ripoff?
For the longest time, SSD prices stayed high. I think with supply outstripping demand by so much finally forced their hand to drop by quite a bit. Instead of a smooth decrease over time, it feels like sudden drops. Also, QLC means higher storage density for cheap.
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