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There's an almost-perfectly 5-star 250GB SSD for $130 on Newegg.  Is there something that makes it so much cheaper than competition?  If not, why don't we all use this?

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147248&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=

 

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there are actually a lot of people who use it. I do for example.

 

 

 

Edit: It even has over 600 reviews on Newegg. That's quite a lot.

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There's an almost-perfectly 5-star 250GB SSD for $130 on Newegg.  Is there something that makes it so much cheaper than competition?  If not, why don't we all use this?

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147248&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=

They are 115 euros here in the Netherlands and they are very good.

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MX100 is usually cheaper, but the tlc nand is the reason for it being cheap. 

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250gb ssd's are frequently on sale for around $80~ USD. 

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I got em for $79.99 on cyber monday. Price seems to have gone up

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Thank you.  Oh, wow.  I feel stupid now. 

I don't always use Vessel.... but when I do, it's because of Scrapyard Wars.

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MX100 is usually cheaper, but the tlc nand is the reason for it being cheap.

the 840 evo uses tlc

the mx100 uses mlc

tlc is the cheaper one

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the 840 evo uses tlc

the mx100 uses mlc

tlc is the cheaper one

that is what i meant, op asked why the evo was cheap, not why the mx was cheap. 

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There's an almost-perfectly 5-star 250GB SSD for $130 on Newegg.  Is there something that makes it so much cheaper than competition?  If not, why don't we all use this?

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147248&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=

It is that cheap because there is one serious flaw with it that "no one" knew about and there is such a market flood that it needs to be "thinned". The flaw was that if you have data that is not used frequently the speed of reads of that data was significantly slower than advertised speeds. Samsung has since put out a firmware fix for it and all seems to be well for those that have installed the new firmware.

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It is a good compromise between price and quality. I think it uses the cheaper MLC flash. 

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It is that cheap because there is one serious flaw with it that "no one" knew about and there is such a market flood that it needs to be "thinned". The flaw was that if you have data that is not used frequently the speed of reads of that data was significantly slower than advertised speeds. Samsung has since put out a firmware fix for it and all seems to be well for those that have installed the new firmware.

This, basically.

 

Because of the issue mentioned above, it got quite a bad rep.  Shame really, because it is a really good drive.  On the other hand, it means those who realize that this "flaw" is really a non-issue can get one cheaper. 

 

I currently have 3 840 EVOs.  A 120GB mSATA, a 240GB and a 1TB one.  All had the new firmware and are performing just fine.  Thinking of getting a couple more 840 EVOs while I can get them cheap.  I need to replace a couple of old small OCZs anyway.

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There's an almost-perfectly 5-star 250GB SSD for $130 on Newegg.  Is there something that makes it so much cheaper than competition?  If not, why don't we all use this?

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147248&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=

That is actually high, since you can find the 850 evo for around 130 on amazon and newegg. A few of the 840s (older model) most have been bought out temporarily making a price increase. I saw 840 evos near 110 before I went for 850 evos.

 

It is the 840/850 pro that are of higher cost. Corsairs m550 and m500 are the older variants and are thus cheaper and less efficient than the mx100. To compare an 840 to a mx100 is folly as an mx100 should compare to the 850 evo/pro and the 840 should compare to the m550. People seem to just be cross evaluating products from different generations of ssds. For the ssd market, each year or two is in itself a new generation.

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Production volume.

 

That is the main reason they can charge such a low price. 

 

Look at the graphic linked here

 

You have fixed costs and variable costs. Fixed costs mean that even if you don't produce anything you still have to pay money(For example real estate tax). 

Then there are variable costs. This would include the actual costs for the raw material. Now, the more you produce, the more material you have to buy, the higher the variable costs are. 

But the fixed costs obviously stay the same. So at high production volumes the fixed costs are distributed into smaller chunks.

 

Now, this is obviously not the only reason the drives are so cheap, other reasons include the fact that Samsung actually produces the drives, so their selling price stays way closer to production price than third party sellers with their markup and the fact that Samsung wants to aggressively prosition their products. 

They probably could, if they wanted, sell SSDs at a small loss severly undercutting their competition, driving them out of the market. (This wouldn't work for various reasons in a market like PC hardware, but is theoretically possible)

 

TLDR: High Production volume reduce the price per drive for Samsung, which they use for aggressive pricing

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