This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
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.
Ended up ordering 2 of those myself. For the price, couldn't pass it up. Going to replace the 1Tb ssd's I have now, and turn the old ones into external storage. All my Steam games are taking up too much space.
the price of early adoption
Just made a new build, 6 tb of Evo was less than $300. Prices are great at the moment
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?
Side note, join us at !buildapcsales@lemmy.ml for deals like this. We could use more folks in the growing community!
Cool but I see these are mostly for the US market.
Feel free to make some posts for your market! We are not a picky group.
That's good to see. :) What's a good and reliable brand/model to look out for? I don't trust many of those unknown (to me at least) manufacturers with the cheapest prices.
Samsung has always seemed like the reliable (albeit expensive) option to me. I personally went with a 2TB Sabrent NVMe because it was on sale and it hasn't failed me yet.
Samsung is starting to have major issues. There are lists online telling you which batches are bad. A bunch of my SSDs from them died, and if you're outside the US, they won't warranty them. They tell you to go to the store you bought them from, and the store you bought them from tells you to go to Samsung.
I'm no longer buying Samsung. They can burn in hell.
It's wild how cheap SSDs and ram are right now. It's so tempting to upgrade both on my main PC.
My first SSD was a 128 GB OCz Vertex3. Price comparable to the 2600K I bought it with.
I had some OCZ drive that I think cost me £130 for 120GB. Pretty much £1 per GB. It's crazy just how cheap storage is now. I purchased a 240GB SSD today for £13.99. A considerable upgrade to the current mechanical drive in my kids laptop!
