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1TB Crucial T500 PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 Internal Solid State Drive Expired

$72.50
$143.99
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Various retailers have 1TB Crucial T500 PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 Internal Solid State Drive (CT1000T500SSD8) for $72.49. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member danu2000 for sharing this deal

Available Retailers:Features:
  • 1TB Storage Capacity
  • M.2 2280 Form Factor
  • PCIe 4.0 x4 / NVMe 2.0 Interface
  • Sequential Reads up to 7300 MB/s
  • Sequential Writes up to 6800 MB/s
  • Up to 600TB TBW (Total Bytes Written)

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Seems like a decent deal on a high-performing drive.
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Model: Crucial T500 PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 Internal Gaming SSD 1TB

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For anyone else considering doing this, keep in mind that it's extremely overkill for even the fastest USB spec out right now.

USB 3.2 Gen 2 tops out at 10Gbps, which is about 1200MB/s, while this drive does most of its sustained reads at around 4000MB/s (32Gbps).

If you jump up to USB 4.0 (20Gbps), you can double it to around 2400MB/s. But that's still nearly half of what this drive can do and it requires a USB 4.0 enclosure that currently costs more than the drive itself.

You can pick a much cheaper drive and it will still perform relative to this one over USB.
COVID caused a huge spike in demand, so suppliers started producing more NAND. Eventually, demand dropped and manufacturers were left with a ton of extra stock. Prices were dropped to sell the excess inventory and production reduced. Now that there's no longer a glut, prices are going back up. This has been widely reported for over a year.
You're completely wrong.

The lowest prices were around July-August of 2023, and they've since gone up… exactly the opposite of what you're saying.

Branded 1TB SSDs could be found for $30-$35 (or less!) and they've nearly doubled in price as manufacturers have scaled back to offset the surplus.

Stop spreading misinformation.

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HappyEducation304
03-25-2024 at 03:35 PM.
03-25-2024 at 03:35 PM.
Quote from wherestheanykey :
For anyone else considering doing this, keep in mind that it's extremely overkill for even the fastest USB spec out right now.

USB 3.2 Gen 2 tops out at 10Gbps, which is about 1200MB/s, while this drive does most of its sustained reads at around 4000MB/s (32Gbps).

If you jump up to USB 4.0 (20Gbps), you can double it to around 2400MB/s. But that's still nearly half of what this drive can do and it requires a USB 4.0 enclosure that currently costs more than the drive itself.

You can pick a much cheaper drive and it will still perform relative to this one over USB.
Thanks. Yeah I was actually considering using it for M1 max mac studio. From what I'm seeing most thunderbolt for enclosures as a bottleneck even with the fastest drives it around 2500 to 2800 speed read and write.
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HappyEducation304
03-25-2024 at 03:36 PM.
03-25-2024 at 03:36 PM.
Quote from wherestheanykey :
For anyone else considering doing this, keep in mind that it's extremely overkill for even the fastest USB spec out right now.

USB 3.2 Gen 2 tops out at 10Gbps, which is about 1200MB/s, while this drive does most of its sustained reads at around 4000MB/s (32Gbps).

If you jump up to USB 4.0 (20Gbps), you can double it to around 2400MB/s. But that's still nearly half of what this drive can do and it requires a USB 4.0 enclosure that currently costs more than the drive itself.

You can pick a much cheaper drive and it will still perform relative to this one over USB.
Even though the enclosures are advertising 40 GbS lolol
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vanontom
03-25-2024 at 03:49 PM.
03-25-2024 at 03:49 PM.
Quote from wherestheanykey :
For anyone else considering doing this, keep in mind that it's extremely overkill for even the fastest USB spec out right now.

USB 3.2 Gen 2 tops out at 10Gbps, which is about 1200MB/s, while this drive does most of its sustained reads at around 4000MB/s (32Gbps).

If you jump up to USB 4.0 (20Gbps), you can double it to around 2400MB/s. But that's still nearly half of what this drive can do and it requires a USB 4.0 enclosure that currently costs more than the drive itself.

You can pick a much cheaper drive and it will still perform relative to this one over USB.
I wish there were much cheaper drives, with similar reliability and reputation. One bonus of the speed capabilities is not lost at least, in that combined with relatively slow USB enclosure, may result in very reliable (low temperature) operation. That's what I would tell myself if I needed one. Smilie
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03-25-2024 at 04:02 PM.
03-25-2024 at 04:02 PM.
Quote from barrera_j :
And more garbage SSD deals...
So post up some non-ssd deals. Be the change you want to see
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SlickTheFlip
03-25-2024 at 04:42 PM.
03-25-2024 at 04:42 PM.
I believe 2tb m.2 drives were lass than $100 last year as well as SSD's, and a lot were saying the prices will just keep dropping, but it looks like the prices are increasing.
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kingofdeal
03-25-2024 at 04:46 PM.
03-25-2024 at 04:46 PM.
Quote from daforcebwithu :
Pass. Got the Walmart price mistake WD850X 4TB for $80.

deal linky please
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03-25-2024 at 04:54 PM.
03-25-2024 at 04:54 PM.
Quote from SlickTheFlip :
I believe 2tb m.2 drives were lass than $100 last year as well as SSD's, and a lot were saying the prices will just keep dropping, but it looks like the prices are increasing.
Virtually every reputable source was reporting that NAND prices would be going up again. The drop actually went on for longer than initially expected. Anyone claiming that prices would just keep dropping was either uninformed, disingenuous, or sticking their head in the sand. This isn't like the 2011 Thailand flood that caused hard drive prices to spike, this was fully expected by anyone paying attention.
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crazeedave
03-25-2024 at 04:55 PM.
03-25-2024 at 04:55 PM.
Wasn't the 2tb like 80? I forgot how much I paid but it seems close to this price.
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03-25-2024 at 05:19 PM.
03-25-2024 at 05:19 PM.
Quote from MWink :
Virtually every reputable source was reporting that NAND prices would be going up again. The drop actually went on for longer than initially expected. Anyone claiming that prices would just keep dropping was either uninformed, disingenuous, or sticking their head in the sand. This isn't like the 2011 Thailand flood that caused hard drive prices to spike, this was fully expected by anyone paying attention.

Are prices expected to continue to increase? I guess the question is, if the drive is not needed immediately, should I wait for better deals?
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RobM6707
03-25-2024 at 05:22 PM.
03-25-2024 at 05:22 PM.
Will this fit a Dell Latitude 5420?
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barrera_j
03-25-2024 at 06:12 PM.
03-25-2024 at 06:12 PM.
Quote from pingb :
Prices have continuously been going down over the last 7 months or so. Not sure what drives you've been looking at. This maybe the bottom for a while though.
this was literally the price for 2TB SSDs in December... now it's the price for 1TB

prices have increased massively for months now... stop spewing ignorant rethoric
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barrera_j
03-25-2024 at 06:13 PM.
03-25-2024 at 06:13 PM.
Quote from vertgo :
Why is this garbage?
this was literally the price for 2TB SSDs in December... now it's the price for 1TB

literally any SSD "deal" is garbage right now
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