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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piggesthjy and Deal Hunter
plu388 [
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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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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.
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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.
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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.c
https://wccftech.com/kioxia-unvei...latenci
https://www.zdnet.com/article/sam...b-by-2020/
https://www.tomshardwar
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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