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

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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.

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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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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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    • Please see the original post for additional details and/or view the Wiki and forum comments for further helpful discussion if available.

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wherestheanykey
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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.
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MWink
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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.
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JKimRX
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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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Mar 26, 2024 4:35 PM
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doemaMar 26, 2024 4:35 PM
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Quote from cybercho View quoted comment :
Appreciate your post. Yes. Most people are spending more than they need. Yes, one can future-proof, but by the time enclosures can match speeds, there are much faster drives out there for a lower price. I know your game and play it too! haha.
also "future proofing" is a fool's errand, just get what fits your need and budget today
Mar 26, 2024 4:51 PM
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link626Mar 26, 2024 4:51 PM
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so ssd prices aren't coming down anymore eh?
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xDD90xMar 26, 2024 5:21 PM
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Quote from cybercho View quoted comment :
Good price if you NEED one right now. I'm sad to have missed out on the 4TB walmart deal. Just added a deal alert for NVME so I don't miss the next one.
You might want to use more specific keywords than "NVMe", otherwise you will get alerts constantly; mostly ones for computers. However, I had a deal alert set for "sn850" and it wasn't triggered for that Walmart deal. I thought it would cover "sn850x" but apparently I was mistaken.
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RUsum1Mar 26, 2024 7:21 PM
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Quote from MWink View quoted comment :
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.
What is the reasoning for the known increase in price?
Mar 26, 2024 7:25 PM
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RUsum1Mar 26, 2024 7:25 PM
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Quote from xDD90x View quoted comment :
You might want to use more specific keywords than "NVMe", otherwise you will get alerts constantly; mostly ones for computers. However, I had a deal alert set for "sn850" and it wasn't triggered for that Walmart deal. I thought it would cover "sn850x" but apparently I was mistaken.
Yeah that works to catch the price mistake on that specific drive if that's the only drive you're looking for. But what if the price mistake was on a different model which is still great? Do you add a bunch of alerts for all specific models?
Mar 26, 2024 7:30 PM
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xDD90xMar 26, 2024 7:30 PM
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Quote from RUsum1 View quoted comment :
Yeah that works to catch the price mistake on that specific drive if that's the only drive you're looking for. But what if the price mistake was on a different model which is still great? Do you add a bunch of alerts for all specific models?
I have it set with the 'or' ( | ) operator to catch all of the drives that I'm interested in.
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Mar 26, 2024 7:44 PM
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RUsum1Mar 26, 2024 7:44 PM
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Quote from xDD90x View quoted comment :
I have it set with the 'or' ( | ) operator to catch all of the drives that I'm interested in.
So when you make a deal alert you can have one alert say something like sn850 | sn860 | sn870 etc. and it will look for anything with any one of those and alert you?

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Mar 26, 2024 8:40 PM
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xDD90xMar 26, 2024 8:40 PM
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Quote from RUsum1 View quoted comment :
So when you make a deal alert you can have one alert say something like sn850 | sn860 | sn870 etc. and it will look for anything with any one of those and alert you?
Yes, exactly.

There was an SD forum post all about setting up advanced deal alerts, but I can't find it anymore. I believe a single space is the 'AND' operator. And if you want your keyword to consist of multiple words, you enclose it in quotations (e.g. "980 Pro").
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Mar 26, 2024 8:48 PM
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RUsum1Mar 26, 2024 8:48 PM
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Quote from xDD90x View quoted comment :
Yes, exactly.

There was an SD forum post all about setting up advanced deal alerts, but I can't find it anymore. I believe a single space is the 'AND' operator. And if you want your keyword to consist of multiple words, you enclose it in quotations (e.g. "980 Pro").
The quotes line up with how to use search engines where you would do "best buy" to force results with those words in that order next to each other whereas simply typing Best Buy without quotes would give you everything with Best in the result and Buy in the result but not necessarily next to each other.

I had no idea about the | separator so that's awesome. I just set up several more specific deal alerts so now I can hopefully get better results. I'm in the market for a new laptop and prefer Ryzen but I had getting alerts for absolutely EVERYTHING even Ryzen 5 or the lame Ryzen 7 which people say is just a rebranded 5. So now I have specific model numbers. We'll see how it goes.

I also did some random nvme drive model names as an alert to hopefully catch a deal mistake or something. Should I add any to the list? I only did a random google search for Top NVME Drives and copied some recommended model numbers. Like you said this should weed out generic nvme mentions for all laptop deals as they likely don't list the specific drive
"P44 Pro" | "P41 Plus" | SN850x | SN850 | SN580 | NM790 | XS70 | T500 | "990 Pro" | "980 Pro"

Thanks for the tip.
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MagentaKnob620Mar 26, 2024 9:40 PM
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i am searching for a budget $40 1TB NVME M.2 SSD, i am ok with speeds anything over 2500 Read & Write
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Quote from RUsum1 View quoted comment :
What is the reasoning for the known increase in price?
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.
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Peerless_WarriorMar 26, 2024 10:44 PM
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Quote from doema View quoted comment :
also the 600 TBW rating seems in line with other ssd in the same class, ie Samsung 990 Pro, WD Black SN850X, Skhynix P41 Platinum
Isn't the P41 the most efficient model?
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Last I checked, nobody here has a time machine.

Do you?
Yes I go back to the future on my vacations.
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Quote from xNico View quoted comment :
This should be regular price, the 4tb ssd for $77 on walmart will be one of the top ssd deals this year. stocked up on a few of those
The pricing error that was almost instantly sold out, you mean. That is no measure of value in other typical pricing or price changes.
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Mar 27, 2024 7:33 AM
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xNicoMar 27, 2024 7:33 AM
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It wasn't an error, the item was marked as clearance, and this was only 1 of the dozen other "pricing error" if you call it that walmart had on that same day, few others were and had up to 80% off monitors, and some gaming and work laptops. Which all shipped.
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