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Mar 20, 2022 2:25 PM

Samsung EDU/EPP: 2TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD

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Various Merchants have 2TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive SSD (MZ-V7S2T0B/AM) on sale for $199.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member piggesthjy and Deal Hunter plu388 [discuss] for finding this deal.

Available from the following stores:Features:
  • Sequential read and write performance levels of up to 3,500MB s and 3,300MB s, respectively.
  • Random Read (4KB, QD32): Up to 600,000 IOPS Random Read
No longer available:
  • Samsung.com has for Samsung Education/Employment Discount Program Members: 2TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive SSD (MZ-V7S2T0B/AM) on sale for $179.99. Shipping is free.
  • Various Merchants have 2TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive SSD (MZ-V7S2T0B/AM) on sale for $199.99. Shipping is free.

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  • About this deal:
    • Our research indicates that this is $20 lower (10% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting at $199.99 at the time of this posting.
  • About this product:
    • Comes with a 5-year or 1,200 TBW warranty (whichever comes first)
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Various Merchants have 2TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive SSD (MZ-V7S2T0B/AM) on sale for $199.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member piggesthjy and Deal Hunter plu388 [discuss] for finding this deal.

Available from the following stores:Features:
  • Sequential read and write performance levels of up to 3,500MB s and 3,300MB s, respectively.
  • Random Read (4KB, QD32): Up to 600,000 IOPS Random Read
No longer available:
  • Samsung.com has for Samsung Education/Employment Discount Program Members: 2TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive SSD (MZ-V7S2T0B/AM) on sale for $179.99. Shipping is free.
  • Various Merchants have 2TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive SSD (MZ-V7S2T0B/AM) on sale for $199.99. Shipping is free.

Editor's Notes

Written by oceanlake
  • About this deal:
    • Our research indicates that this is $20 lower (10% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting at $199.99 at the time of this posting.
  • About this product:
    • Comes with a 5-year or 1,200 TBW warranty (whichever comes first)
  • About this store:

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Mar 20, 2022 6:19 PM
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HotLongSocksMar 20, 2022 6:19 PM
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Same as previously still then.
Mar 20, 2022 6:56 PM
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doemaMar 20, 2022 6:56 PM
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Good price for gaming PC although last time there was also 10% cb
Mar 20, 2022 8:13 PM
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kida182001Mar 20, 2022 8:13 PM
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Waiting for the day 2TB reaches near $100 range. Hopefully by this Black Friday season.
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Mar 20, 2022 8:17 PM
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SinisterAudioMar 20, 2022 8:17 PM
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Quote from kida182001 View quoted comment :
Waiting for the day 2TB reaches near $100 range. Hopefully by this Black Friday season.
That's not happening for m.2's for the next 5 years bro, def not Gen3's & def not Gen4's.
Mar 20, 2022 10:21 PM
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ConFuMar 20, 2022 10:21 PM
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Quote from kida182001 View quoted comment :
Waiting for the day 2TB reaches near $100 range. Hopefully by this Black Friday season.
Good luck to you, haven't even seen they go down to those prices for even sata ssd.
Mar 20, 2022 11:37 PM
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OmahaJeffMar 20, 2022 11:37 PM
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Quote from kida182001 View quoted comment :
Waiting for the day 2TB reaches near $100 range. Hopefully by this Black Friday season.
Maybe when the 5 new US semiconductor manufacturing plants are completed, but that's still 3 to 5 years away.
At scale, Nvme chips and boards aren't appreciably more difficult to manufacture than high capacity RAM, and cost less in materials then your average SATA drive. It's the construction, setup and tooling that's expensive and slow to get going. If you've been paying attention you may have noticed that the price of nvme cards have been very closely tied to the number of manufacturers and volume of production. Several third gen chips have dropped in price even up to 25% just since last November. The Black Friday deals are now normal price.
The advancements in the tech, such as lower power consumption, better onboard controllers, support for pcie x4-x5, etc haven't done anything to bring the price down for the third gen chips, they've only raised the price ceiling so you pay a premium for the new advances. The only thing that is or will bringing down the price of nvme's is competition and volume on the market. Competition is a good thing. 👍

Pure speculation, but as production ramps up I imagine by early 2024 2TB nvme chips will be going for $50 to $60, maybe less.

The question is, do you believe the utility and benefit you'll get from buying a nvme NOW, being able to use it for 2 years, is worth paying the difference in price?


On a side note, if you don't have any available nvme or pcie slots on your computer, or potentially even a computer that never had one before, You can still get a couple inexpensive or used SATA III drives and configure them in RAID. With two mirrored 256gb drives you can pull read speeds potentially up to 1.1 GB a second, so if just loading games quickly is all you're looking for, you can do that while also having redundancy for your data.
Mar 21, 2022 3:52 AM
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markbennett90Mar 21, 2022 3:52 AM
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is there a big difference with the 980 pro vs 970 EVO Plus

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Mar 21, 2022 5:17 AM
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kalel33Mar 21, 2022 5:17 AM
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Quote from markbennett90 View quoted comment :
is there a big difference with the 980 pro vs 970 EVO Plus
Not in real world usage. I researched that particular question when buying a 2TB 970 EVO Plus.
Mar 21, 2022 1:05 PM
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AordisMar 21, 2022 1:05 PM
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Quote from markbennett90 View quoted comment :
is there a big difference with the 980 pro vs 970 EVO Plus
Mar 21, 2022 1:53 PM
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RedflyerMar 21, 2022 1:53 PM
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Sucks Samsung still ripping people off. Their S22 must not be doing well.

Still waiting to replace my 1TB NVMe SSD I bought four years ago for $69. Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron stop colluding to milk the consumer at 1-2TB kkthx. We are ready to be cheated at 8-128TB.

Digitimes: Samsung new NAND flash capacity coming online in 2H21 may worsen price falls.

https://www.digitimes.com/news/a2...PD205.html

https://wccftech.com/kioxia-unvei...latencies/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/sam...b-by-2020/

https://www.tomshardware.com/news...n4-aic-ssd

Everyone has been brainwashed to eat these high prices because xyz reasons. It's easier and cheaper to print ssd NAND memory than make a hard drive yet you don't see those staying stationary at 1-2TB for the past 4 years.
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Mar 21, 2022 6:31 PM
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JollyReward108Mar 21, 2022 6:31 PM
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3500 read is great, but why not go for 7000 read with the PRO, this baby rocks, I run Far Cry 6 and MS FS 2020 and it loads in seconds with all settings maxed out with no stutters.
Mar 21, 2022 9:54 PM
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GatosanoMar 21, 2022 9:54 PM
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Need your opinion guys, Would this be a good thing to upgrade the ssd and clean install Windows 11 on the HP laptop from Microcenter that was for $150.00 after mailed coupon offer two weeks ago?
Mar 21, 2022 10:09 PM
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dougpaw57Mar 21, 2022 10:09 PM
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Quote from doema View quoted comment :
Good price for gaming PC although last time there was also 10% cb
R*****N has 10% CB for Samsung right now.
Mar 21, 2022 11:56 PM
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ConFuMar 21, 2022 11:56 PM
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Quote from Gatosano View quoted comment :
Need your opinion guys, Would this be a good thing to upgrade the ssd and clean install Windows 11 on the HP laptop from Microcenter that was for $150.00 after mailed coupon offer two weeks ago?
Don't know what kind of HP laptop you got but this sounds overkill for a $150 laptop? I mean it cost more than your laptop?
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Mar 22, 2022 1:06 AM
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tymanMar 22, 2022 1:06 AM
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Quote from JollyReward108 View quoted comment :
3500 read is great, but why not go for 7000 read with the PRO, this baby rocks, I run Far Cry 6 and MS FS 2020 and it loads in seconds with all settings maxed out with no stutters.
Tbf, not everyone has a PCIe 4.0 mobo to use a Pro on. For example, my Z490 board is only 3.0.

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