In 2017, I bought a 1TB 960 Evo for 466€. Now, in 2023 the 1TB 970 Evo Plus is 43€.
In 2017, I bought a 1TB 960 Evo for 466€. Now, in 2023 the 1TB 970 Evo Plus is 43€.
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.
$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!
It's about time. SSD prices stagnated for years!
Here are my purchases over the past years:
- 2015 - Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SATA - $164
- 2016 - Samsung 850 EVO 500GB M.2 SATA - $168
- 2016 - Samsung 850 EVO 1TB M.2 SATA - $262
- 2017 - Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SATA - $198 ($30 more than 2 yrs prior)
- 2019 - Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SATA - $160 (finally a decent price on 1TB even though it was SATA)
- 2020 - Samsung 870 EVO+ 2TB NVME - $270
- 2022 - Samsung 870 EVO+ 2TB NVME - $204
- 2022 - Samsung 870 EVO 4TB SATA - $396
Today the Samsung 970 EVO+ NVME 2TB is $109. The 870 EVO 4TB SATA is $170. Each about half the price as one year ago.
I bought 4TB Crucial ssd, MX500 for 87€, brand new. It was on huge sale. And 2y ago i paid almost 60€ for 512 gb same model... so yeah
You should note that the 960 is the one where Samsung got caught swapping in sub par bad performance parts into the same name. That's part why it got THAT cheap rather than it being a natural evolution.
Good to see the prices are going down when everything else is getting crazzy expensive.
I bought some SSD in 2019 worth of 290$ and payed with 0.5 ethereum. That would be 900+$ today kekw
Don't worry guys, manufacturer's are doing their best to cut supply to raise prices again. Gotta love them.
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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.
Pretty sure Apple still charges £300 😂
Side note, join us at !buildapcsales@lemmy.ml for deals like this. We could use more folks in the growing community!
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.
the price of early adoption
In 2016 I bought a 512gb 950pro for £200, not only is it still my boot drive it still has the same windows 10 installation, even though it's on a completely different motherboard.
Since that new motherboard has three more M.2 slots than the 2016 platform, I just picked up one of the 970 evos in the OP for £43. It can fill in for my current SATA SSD steam cache, which can in turn take the place of my one remaining HDD and I'll be free of spinning iron.
Although... Now I look at it, the 2tb version is less than twice the price...
My Dell XPS has a 256gb nvme for it's OS maybe it's time I upgraded it 🤔
I just saw that the 2TB WD Black SN850 (with cooler) costs the same 150€ today that I paid for the cooler-less 1TB version about two years ago. And the newer X version goes for even less…-
It's incredible how much the price of flash storage has fallen lately. I had to replace a 1tb 2.5' drive lately and an SSD was €5 more than a mechanical drive.
In 2018 I bought a 500Gb 780(?) (Still SATA, NVMe was still not really generally available) for 150€. I think it now goes for like 30€.
In 2021, I bought a Ryzen 5 3600 for $199. Today, it's $82.00.
Cheap af!
Just made a new build, 6 tb of Evo was less than $300. Prices are great at the moment
Puts a tear to my eye. My laptop still has a 256gb m.2 SSD as its main drive because everything else was too expensive at the time.
And people still say Bitcoin would fall apart if it increased it's blocksize limit that was set over a decade a go...