1TB Sata $150, Buy or Wait NAND Price Drop

[nectrone]

I wanna buy a 1TB sata ssd and a 1TB nvme one. Its currently on sales where i am, for $150 and $270 respectively. These are really low prices as you know. I paid $150 for my 256GB ssd back in 2013. And its the first time for both sata and nvme drives to be that cheap.

 

But we all know that there have been 2 major changes in the nand industry. Price fixing has been found and undone, and nand shortage is reversing. So it is anticipated that nand prices in 2019 will drop even more. So I'm wondering whether i should buy now or wait.

 

Remember, it's currently on sales, so it might be the same price right now as the normal price from 6 months in the future.But the sales only last a week.

 

I really don't want to buy now and find 6 months later that a 1TB nvme ssd is the price of a 1TB sata ssd today.

 

So what price do you think the nand will reach this year, will it be to the point where 1TB sata will cost under 100, near HDD price, and 1TB nvme will cost $200?

[vjizzle2384]

it aint gonna drop no more SSD are dirt cheap at 120GB for $22, so 5.5GB/$1

[seagate_surfer]

I am going to give you one piece of advice. The best time to buy one SSD is when you need one SSD! That way you will only get stuff that you need, so do you really need to have 1TB SATA SSD and 1TB NVME SSD? If so, go ahead and purchase them at the best sale/offer that you can find (Offers are usually available several times during the year). I personally believe that the SSDs will continue to drop in prices throughout 2019 and 2020 and some experts even believe that prices will go as low as the HDDs, when that happen the decision will be very easy! 

[DailyProcrastinator]

I think we've seen the biggest price drops in NAND already, it may go lower but if you need the SSD now just get it, no point in waiting. 

[dizmo]

If you can wait, wait. Prices are predicted to drop to around $0.08/gb, making a 1TB (we'll assume SATA) drive $80.

Depending where you live, you can expect prices to drop in half.

That said, if you need them now, buy now.

 

Why do you want two drives?

 

Welcome to the forum.

 

 

1 hour ago, vjizzle2384 said:

it aint gonna drop no more SSD are dirt cheap at 120GB for $22, so 5.5GB/$1

It's predicted to. There's a massive NAND oversupply.

[NineEyeRon]

I just paid $150 for a 1TB SSD and I thought it was good value. If you need now buy it.

[nectrone]

I need the 1TB to use it with an external enclosure, it's cheaper than buying an external ssd like the t5, which costs the same price for 500GB as a 1TB internal ssd + $15 adapter. And usb sticks are bad, just poor perf and longevity, at least in my use case, which includes using windows-to-go, and usb sticks having really bad 4k speeds (even the famously fast sandisk extreme pro), windows is nearly unusable on them, and the stick overheats and dies eventually

 

The nvme ssd i dont need, its just i'd like to replace my system ssd which is sata and 256GB and old (poor 4k and sustained perf for today's ssd standards). I guess i'll buy the dirt cheap sata ssd for my external ssd and i'll wait until i actually need an nvme drive or when the price is below 200 for 1TB nvme tlc 

[seagate_surfer]

Okay, I got it! If you are going to use it as an external hard drive, then yes, it is better to be SATA. The reason behind this is that if you are going to transfer data via USB, the data can not exceed the speeds that USB can offer, because when there are interconnected devices, the speed or transfer capacity will be determined by the slowest device on the network, in this case the USB, you can check the following link for more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#Comparison_with_other_buses

 

And like you said, you can get it later the NVMe but remember to use it as an internal drive because if you use it as a USB drive you won't extract all capabilities it can offer. Except for the SSDs that are built with x2 lanes under the standards of PCIe generation 3, one SSD of x2 lanes PCIe NVMe Gen 3 can reach theoretically 1.97 GB/s and the USB 3.1 standard or also called USB 3 generation 2 (Usually connected via USB type C) can reach theoretically 1.21 GB/s, in those cases you won't lose that much via USB but if the M.2 is x4 lanes instead of x2 lanes then it makes no sense connect it via USB, in that case, you will require Thunderbolt 3.