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 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
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!
Get off my lawn! My first 260MB Harddisk cost me around €300 25 years ago. Still, boot times where similar to that of a modern PC which has1000x more CPU power, ram and transfer speed...
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?
the price of early adoption
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
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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.
It's wild how cheap SSDs and ram are right now. It's so tempting to upgrade both on my main PC.
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