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.
Amazing to see!
By this point do USB sticks make sense anymore as opposed to a super fast SSD inside an enclosure? It seems like the former hasn’t seen any technical progress in years either
They can be failry small though, no? The NVME form factor allows for something that is maybe two times longer than a usual USB stick, so it’s still reasonably small and a tad harder to lose
This is why I have a USB Hub and MicroSD cards for drives that aren’t OS related.
I have
256GB Mac
256GB “Work In Progress” microSD Card (torrents, files I am working on, encoding, etc.)
2 1TB MicroSD Cards for DRM Purchases (iTunes and Apple TV) + Non DRM content (content I ripped and encoded to convert to digital and podcasts, audio, video, etc.)
I just really like the portability of SD Cards and USB sticks.
Your experience isn’t wrong, it is more likely to happen, however, if you prioritize portability, SD Cards and USBs are great for that and inconspicuous if you go somewhere public or need to share something with someone at school without drawing too much attention.
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…
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.
Set your build goals now (check !buildapc@lemmy.world ) and use alerts/price trackers to see good deals. There are some good deals on Black Friday but many are bogus, its to better to check every now and then for deals.
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!
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Amazing to see!
By this point do USB sticks make sense anymore as opposed to a super fast SSD inside an enclosure? It seems like the former hasn’t seen any technical progress in years either
I usually have one USB stick tied to my keys, just in case. I can’t imagine carrying an enclosed SSD everywhere with me.
They can be failry small though, no? The NVME form factor allows for something that is maybe two times longer than a usual USB stick, so it’s still reasonably small and a tad harder to lose
This is why I have a USB Hub and MicroSD cards for drives that aren’t OS related.
I have
I just really like the portability of SD Cards and USB sticks.
I’ve had SD cards fail catastrophically though, unlike ssds and hdds.
Your experience isn’t wrong, it is more likely to happen, however, if you prioritize portability, SD Cards and USBs are great for that and inconspicuous if you go somewhere public or need to share something with someone at school without drawing too much attention.
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.
I feel like you paid a lot for that SSD, I think I bought 1TB for 150€ at about that time. Still, prices now are great
I went on https://geizhals.eu/samsung-ssd-960-evo-1tb-mz-v6e1t0bw-a1511201.html clicked on the right side where you have the price history, clicked on max and when I bought it January 2017 the price was between 440€-460€. Only in late 2018 it went under 300€.
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
Pretty sure Apple still charges £300 😂
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
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.
It’s about time. SSD prices stagnated for years!
Here are my purchases over the past years:
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 ordered a 870 EVO 4TB since all the time spent on self hosted has been eating up my NAS storage.
The 870 QVO 8TB is on for $320 today!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089C3TZL9
It’s been this way continuously since computer memory was thought up.
Here’s a chart of memory price change since 1957
https://jcmit.net/mem2015.htm
In 2016 I bought a 512gb 950pro for £200, not only is it still my boot drive it still has the same windows 10 installation, even though it’s on a completely different motherboard.
Since that new motherboard has three more M.2 slots than the 2016 platform, I just picked up one of the 970 evos in the OP for £43. It can fill in for my current SATA SSD steam cache, which can in turn take the place of my one remaining HDD and I’ll be free of spinning iron.
Although… Now I look at it, the 2tb version is less than twice the price…
Oh, and that 2tb of iron was £87 over ten years ago
This is how hardware should work! Overtime what was bleeding edge is now the norm and as such should be priced accordingly… Looking at you Nvidia
nVidia GPUs:
970GTX was 329$ in 2014
1070GTX was 379$ in 2016
2070RTX was 499$ in 2018
3070RTX was 499$ in 2020
4070RTX is 599$ in 2023
Probably, the 5070 in 2025-6 will be 650-700.
its hurt i pay back in time a gtx titan x … it was 1000€. for the top of the top. and today the top line is … way fuking more…
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Lol a 4070 in Canada is $1200.
I mean, in europe they are more expensive, 4070RTX was about 700€ (770$). Different currencies and different taxes. And greed.
Just made a new build, 6 tb of Evo was less than $300. Prices are great at the moment
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.
I plan on building a new desktop sometime around black friday. Here’s hoping we’ll get some great deals like this then, too?
Don’t wait for black Friday, get the parts in pieces as you find them on sale.
Black Friday is when companies dump subpar parts to low prices just to get rid of them. Don’t bank it all on that sale.
Good call, and good idea! Duly noted.
Set your build goals now (check !buildapc@lemmy.world ) and use alerts/price trackers to see good deals. There are some good deals on Black Friday but many are bogus, its to better to check every now and then for deals.
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!
Sadly HDDs aren’t going this low