Get the SSD now or wait?

[Maragas]

You see I am building my new PC slowly until the new Ryzen is out and I saw the Intel 660p 1TB for just about 100$. But I am hearing that SSD prices can be even cheaper later. Should I just buy it now or just wait for a few more weeks or months.

 

[MrIceCremeLollipop]

Well I assume you would put windows on a hard drive, Which would mean cloning the drive, or doing a fresh install of windows which just isnt fun. 

 

 Running on a hard drive, Is hell. Dont bother. 

 

And, $100 for 1TB? Thats crazy, Go for it.

[.Apex.]

9 minutes ago, Maragas said:

You see I am building my new PC slowly until the new Ryzen is out and I saw the Intel 660p 1TB for just about 100$. But I am hearing that SSD prices can be even cheaper later. Should I just buy it now or just wait for a few more weeks or months.

 

it's not gonna be THAT much cheaper, and a 1TB NVME drive for 100$ is insane, where the hell did you find that?

[SupaKomputa]

It surely be cheaper, but how long can you wait?

The prices in this quarter (march - may) usually cheaper, because manufacture want to get rid of last year stock.

[Jurrunio]

You can go for it I guess, but I'm not using my own money on unproven QLC products.

[Dedayog]

2 minutes ago, syn2112 said:

it's not gonna be THAT much cheaper, and a 1TB NVME drive for 100$ is insane, where the hell did you find that?

It's not exactly a REAL NVMe drive, I'd save that title for the real 3000+Mb/s ones.  I know what they call it, but they also call Smart Cars... cars

 

You have a few months, I'd personally wait.  It's not as if we're in a Black Friday or Christmas sales time-frame right now, where prices are at a yearly low.  

 

Then again, if you have any cash issues, it may make sense for you to buy over time if you can't buy it all in one fell swoop.

[boggen]

SSD for operating system, and more used applications. there is a noticeable increase have operating system and most used apps on SSD. response times are so much quicker. i doubut i could go back to old HDD for main drive. 

 

videos, games, pictures, music, and everything else on HDD. 

 

a 120GB to 250GB SDD, then toss in say 4T HDD and yums. 

 

though now i have so much data had to go SSD for main OS, and then push applications and everything else onto a HDD raid setup. 

 

[Maragas]

Thanks for the answers! I guess I should buy it. After this, only the motherboard, CPU and the ram are left to purchase.

I am really excited for the day I am switching from 500GB 5400RPM HDD (7 Year old and going) to this.

[RejZoR]

People who endlessly wait for SSD's to "get cheper" never really get them or will ever get them. The rest of us have been enjoying them for years. I paid 800€ for 2TB SSD. Granted, few years ago and I took top of the line one, but it was worth it and wouldn't hesitate again even at that price. At 100 bucks per 1TB, what are you even thinking about? For me 2TB is perfect capacity and has been for years so I plan on keeping it for so long till SATA3 becomes obsolete basically. NVMe SSD's didn't even exist in 2TB capacity back then.