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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.
I'm picking up a 2TB 980 Pro for $99 on Prime Day today, it's ridiculous and wild.
That costs as much as my 840 EVO (120 GB) did in 2014.
Seeing this so cheap knowing that my motherboard doesnt have nvme slot 😭
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)
cries in laptop
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
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.
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…-
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...
Oh, and that 2tb of iron was £87 over ten years ago
Cheap af!
