SSD Price Expectations

[andarhan]

SSD's are used to get cheap fast but since the chia coin sperg, especially the SATA SSD prices doesn't drop. I wanted to get a 4TB SSD but the prices are still high, even on the 2TBs. What do you guys expect for SSD prices on short-mid term?

[tkitch]

I mean, you can get sales on 2TB Drives in the ~125-150$ range, which is pretty awesome.

 

What are you looking for for pricing, exactly?

[andarhan]

1 minute ago, tkitch said:

I mean, you can get sales on 2TB Drives in the ~125-150$ range, which is pretty awesome.

 

What are you looking for for pricing, exactly?

870 EVO 2TB is at 180€ atm and any 4TB nvme gen3 SSD are way too expensive.

 

Mobo m.2 slots are full so 2TB m.2 SSD doesn't add much.

[tkitch]

If you're always after samsung, you're gonna pay a premium for it.

 

Look for sales, and you can easily get those 2TB drives for well under 150.

[andarhan]

4 minutes ago, tkitch said:

If you're always after samsung, you're gonna pay a premium for it.

 

Look for sales, and you can easily get those 2TB drives for well under 150.

I need Samsung so my PC will look pretty with other 3 Samsung SSDs, worth the premium. I was just expecting, in general SATA SSD prices would be lower now. Like, 2TB 970 Evo Plus was almost 2x 2TB 870 Evo 2 years ago, now 2TB 870 Evo is almost more expensive.

[Dedayog]

21 minutes ago, andarhan said:

I need Samsung so my PC will look pretty with other 3 Samsung SSDs, worth the premium. I was just expecting, in general SATA SSD prices would be lower now. Like, 2TB 970 Evo Plus was almost 2x 2TB 870 Evo 2 years ago, now 2TB 870 Evo is almost more expensive.

Are you talking about a price floor?  If the 870 was $180 2 years ago, and is now $180... and the 970 was $360 2 years ago and is now $180... you've just noticed the floor.

 

$180 is rough floor for 2TB, MSRP.  It'll sale a bit lower sure.  But don't expect items to just keep dropping in price until they hit $0.  Not how it works for any product, they all have floors.

 

 

Forgive me if I misread what you wrote.

 

[andarhan]

10 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

Are you talking about a price floor?  If the 870 was $180 2 years ago, and is now $180... and the 970 was $360 2 years ago and is now $180... you've just noticed the floor.

 

$180 is rough floor for 2TB, MSRP.  It'll sale a bit lower sure.  But don't expect items to just keep dropping in price until they hit $0.  Not how it works for any product, they all have floors.

 

 

Forgive me if I misread what you wrote.

 

You read me quite right, what I am surprised is why is the floor for SATA is higher than m.2 at this point. Same with the HDD floor too, their value isn't going down for a long while as well.