Grab a 1TB Gen 4 SSD for Christmas - MSI's Spatium M450 is down to just $44

[Admin]

1TB of Gen 4 SSD storage for only $44. MSI's Spatium M450 is a Christmas cracker.

Grab a 1TB Gen 4 SSD for Christmas - MSI's Spatium M450 is down to just $44 : Read more

 

[Stomx]

So the 8TB SSD M.2 drive should be less than $44 * 8 = $352 and even less due to volume discount and not $800-1000 like today

 

[USAFRet]

So today 8TB SSD M.2 drive should be less than $44 * 8 = $352 and not $800-1000 like today

It doesn't scale like that.

Chip size and yield....

 

[Li Ken-un]

It doesn't scale like that.

Last year, the highest capacity consumer SATA (16 TB) and M.2 (8 TB) SSDs were the hold-outs. 16 TB SATA SSDs were very briefly $1,600, while their 32 TB PCIe counterparts (the highest for U.2 SSDs at the time) were just another $200 more.

I'm not sure how the disparity can be justified.

It put my plans for a fleet of the densest SATA SSDs as a cool storage option to a halt. Now I'm all in on PCIe NVMe SSDs since they are still much more cost-effective.

 

[SomeoneElse23]

Thanks for sharing this TH.

My secondary drive is an aging SSD (non NVMe!) with a max thruput of about 400Mb. Until now, I had no idea I could replace it with 1TB NVMe for so little.

This MSI drive may not be the fastest, but speed is relative!