[SOLVED] SSD bargain

[HideOut]

I need help finding an SSD. 500GB class is probably fine. Ill take a 1TB if I get a steal though. NVMe please, no sata crap. Its going into a dell inspiron 7000 series. It came with a 2TB HDD and my god its beyond slow. Dell's bloatware compounds the issue. I plan to put the SSD in as a boot/main drive then reformat the 2TB as storage. Ive seen a few 1TB NVMe's for about 86 or less before, in fact at one point you could get the intel 660p for like 65 or something but now that I need it its back to 100. 500gb class drives seem to be in the 60 or so range. Im in the states and have tried Amazon (they should hire a geek from this forum to actually set up their PC parts area, its trash.), newegg and B and H photo (NYC, but has a massive website too). Any other places to look? Also going back to look for 256GB class drives shows them maybe about 36-40. That might not be horrible. I only need about 50 or so GB for OS and most of what little I do on it.

 

[bmockeg]

Intel 660p is cheapest drive i would get.

Black Friday coming up

 

[HideOut]

im hoping to get something in the next few days. So tired of a laptop that feels like its from 1995 even though its a year old

 

[Encryption+]

You can get a Mushkin 500 GB NVMe off newegg for a little over fifty dollars. It's not quite as fast as some of the higher priced drives like the Samsung 970 drives but it's still WAY faster than any Hard Drive. You could also get a Corsair Force 500GB NVMe which has similar speeds to the Samsung drives for about seventy dollars.

 

[HideOut]

Ive seen those mushkin's and others, some are even cheaper (although the ones that are about $49 are SATA in 2280 form). Wish'd I had gotten the 1tb intel 660p when it was like $80 or something earlier this summer

 

[USAFRet]

1. Remove the Dell bloatware.
2. Intel 660p.

'cheap' is cheap for a reason.

 

[popatim]

It was just $90, did you grab it?