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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.
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
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…-
My Dell XPS has a 256gb nvme for it's OS maybe it's time I upgraded it 🤔
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?
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 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...
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€.
Cheap af!
