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.

  • @snowfalldreamland@lemmy.ml
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    312 years ago

    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!

    • @ward2k@lemmy.world
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      42 years ago

      Could just get a pcie to nvme m.2 adapter, think Sabrent does a pretty good one

      Though it depends on you having spare pcie slots (I’m not 100% sure but I believe the speeds should still be better than sata but you’d have to check)

  • @hark@lemmy.world
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    62 years ago

    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.

  • @deranjer@lemmy.world
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    102 years ago

    Don’t worry guys, manufacturer’s are doing their best to cut supply to raise prices again. Gotta love them.

  • Endorkend
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    122 years ago

    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.

  • oshu
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    232 years ago

    My first job was in a computer store in 1994 and a 4MB stick of RAM for a PC was $140.

  • Björn Tantau
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    702 years ago

    For over a decade I’ve been waiting for HDD prices to fall to 10 € per TB. Guess I’ll see that in SSDs first.

    • Dojan
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      92 years ago

      For NAS purposes that’d be delicious.

      • @JATtho@sopuli.xyz
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        122 years ago

        Until you would have to replace a HDD: +23 hours of nerve racking RAID repair time for 10TB drive at 120MB/s Even with some advanced (like ZFS etc.) system you can’t go around the fact the HDDs are slow.

        And when the HDD fails, you can’t read it. It’s toast. Some cheap non-volatile memory devices are like this too, but good ones go into read-only mode and you can at least attempt data recovery from them if no better option is left.

        I’m liking that it is possible get cheap+good 1TB NVMe devices for less than 100€. The consumer SATA market for large SSDs (capacity over 1TB) is unfortunately quite dry. I need replacement for HDDs and even if the speed is capped by SATA bus it would be an massive improvement.

        • Muddybulldog
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          That repair time is the bear. Particularly as so many consumer grade NAS device really don’t have the horsepower for it. System works great until you have to rebuild an array. When that time comes don’t plan on doing much of anything while it’s grinding for the next few days.

    • @Nahaelem@lemmy.world
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      322 years ago

      Yup, there’s a Linustech tip video about this. HDD prices have kinda been set in stone for a good while now

      • Josh
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        12 years ago

        do you think you can link the video?

      • @max_adam@lemm.ee
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        62 years ago

        So, maybe HDD can hardly get any more cheaper as there is little to non room for improvement while SSD can get higher NAND transistors density.

        • @Greenskye@lemmy.world
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          32 years ago

          Just since I’ve setup a plex server (about 8 years now) midrange sizes have gone from 4->16 TBs. Personally I think the bulk of the issue is that HDD customers switched from a mix of enterprise and personal, to nearly all enterprise. Companies really don’t care if a HDD is $200 or $500, so basically all high capacity drives are priced at B2B prices, not consumer

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      We’re very close. 30TB HAMR drives are expected later this year, and 50TB a year or two later. I think HDDs will continue to present the best value for data hoarders.

  • @monerobull@monero.town
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    -192 years ago

    And people still say Bitcoin would fall apart if it increased it’s blocksize limit that was set over a decade a go…

  • @thatguy_ie@lemmy.world
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    32 years ago

    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.

  • @zephyr@lemmy.world
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    12 years ago

    What’s the catch?

    I mean is it getting cheaper because SSDs generally have lower life expectancy?

    • Maddison
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      42 years ago

      More supply & lower demand = cheaper goods, plus technology that creates it gets more wide spread so competition arises, and many other factors contribute to the fall in prices such as an improved model coming out making older models cheaper.

      • sqozenode
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        22 years ago

        The increasing spread of cheap good technology isn’t really about the new hotness coming out it’s about last decade stuff finally becoming affordable.