News SSD Prices Have Dropped 25% Since March, Now Average $0.06 per GB

[Admin]

With falling demand for drives and NAND, high-capacity SSDs are becoming more affordable. Should you buy one now?

SSD Prices Have Dropped 25% Since March, Now Average $0.06 per GB : Read more

 

[Li Ken-un]

I don’t see any coverage of high-capacity SSDs so here’s what I’ve been seeing from my own storage hunting:

• In the 8 TB SATA category SAMSUNG has the lowest observed price of $391 on Amazon. It’s $399 again as of this writing, but will likely drop again.
• In the 16 TB SATA category, drives are still way more expensive per TB no matter the manufacturer. $2,200 for the OWC Mercury Enterprise Pro is the lowest price on such a drive at the moment.
• And if you can handle the U.2 form factor, you can get around 32 TB for a little over $2,200. That was the lowest observed price of the 30.72 TB Intel D5-P5316 I’ve found to date. It’s currently $2,478 but should drop again with the release of the competitively priced Micron 6500 ION.
• $2,517 for the 32 TB Micron 6500 ION is currently a much better value if you can spare another $40—that’s if you can find any store with it in stock since it was only announced recently. Expect this product to push the price of the Intel D5-P5316 back down.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

There's plenty of demand for NAND, the problem is where people need it the most, namely consoles, tablets, and especially phones, there's such a large price premium attached to it, especially in phones, that demand is effectively low, even though it's nowhere near the fastest NAND on the market. $150/TB for XBOX, $100/128GB for phones, tablets, and Macbooks, and sadly this premium does not look like it will be decreasing to anywhere near 6¢/TB, or even to near 3¢/TB, anytime soon.

 

[LabRat 891]

• I bought a 2TB Solidgm P41+ for ~$125 last year, and thought that was a good price.
• I bought another of the same, for ~$100 in the last few months; still thought it was a decent deal.
• I also bought a (used) Amfeltec Gen2 x16-4x4M.2 card, that included 4 1TB SSDs (oddly, 2 of which were Gen4 drives).

Now, I can get a 4TB drive for what I'd been paying, but
I'm friggin' swimmin in NVMe drives now...

Never thought I'd have this problem:
Desire for more (and faster storage), but also having too many modern-parts already on-hand. (and a lacking-quantity of exposed/unused PCIe/NVMe slots on my X570...)

 

[Deleted member 2838871]

I don’t see any coverage of high-capacity SSDs so here’s what I’ve been seeing from my own storage hunting:

• In the 8 TB SATA category SAMSUNG has the lowest observed price of $391 on Amazon. It’s $399 again as of this writing, but will likely drop again.

I'm running 2 of them for media storage... along with 8 NVME drives 2TB. All Samsung... and all quality drives as expected.

I'm friggin' swimmin in NVMe drives now...

It's a good pond to be swimming in.

I'll be receiving my Alienware m18 laptop next week and will be in the market for 4x m.2 drives... 2x 2280 and 2x 2230.

It's a good time to be looking for SSDs with prices they way they are and with Prime Day coming up.

 

[saunupe1911]

I've had 2 Sabrents die on me...never again.

Grab a 990 pro on Prime Day or wait until Black Friday? There's no immediate need though

 

[Math Geek]

i def don't need it. but a silly good price on a 4tb drive and i'll click buy multiple times

i'm sure the 2 tb drives i have now can find a home in other pc around the family.

 

[Deleted member 2838871]

I've had 2 Sabrents die on me...never again.

Grab a 990 pro on Prime Day or wait until Black Friday? There's no immediate need though

With my laptop arriving next week I’m most likely gonna wait the extra few days till Prime Day before purchasing the SSDs and ram I want. I went with the bare minimum on the build to avoid ridiculous upcharges when it’s much cheaper to do myself.

Don’t think I’d wait till BF though.

 

[PBme]

Really shouldn't be listing the max sequential as the single data point when talking about these drives as it means almost nothing. All about the the smaller block size and random read/write speeds and now long it can sustain them. Even more important going forward as we are seeing with 5.0 drives that have much higher sequential but lower results for all the other benchmarks and real-world tests.

On a different note, I really wish U2 would have become the standard as these m.2 sticks not only are hard to cool, you run out of motherboard slots after two on most boards and either have to fall back to 550MB SATA SSD's or buy m.2 pcie cards. /pointless complaining

 

[SSGBryan]

Don't wait for Black Friday. Vendors tend to gradually raise prices from late summer to just before November, then they drop their prices back to what they were during the early summer for their Black Friday sales.

I am reworking my entire computer system next month; it was built nearly 4 years ago, and I need a power boost.

Currently, I have six 2Tb SATA ssds (Silicon Power), along with a 1tb sabrent NVMe ssd. I do 3d art, and digital assets are getting large.

I'll be adding an 8 bay internal SATA bay to hold all of my SATA drives, and I'll replace the 1tb sabrent with a 2tb silicon power NVMe drive. I'll pick up 2 more Silicon Power SSDs for spares. All of the sata drives will be buttoned up in the drive bay (rather than flopping around in a mad bundle.

A Blu-ray player will replace the DVD player. I rip my own media.

A Ryzen 7 5700x will replace the Ryzen 7 2700. Won't even need a new cooler, both are 65 watt parts.

An Arc a770 will replace the RTX 3060. I want AV1 encoding, better blender rendering, and better gaming performance.

 

[lmcnabney]

On a different note, I really wish U2 would have become the standard as these m.2 sticks not only are hard to cool, you run out of motherboard slots after two on most boards and either have to fall back to 550MB SATA SSD's or buy m.2 pcie cards. /pointless complaining

NOT pointless complaining. U.2 was a much more elegant solution, but it wasn't as sleek and NAND pricing that would make big U.2 drives in the consumer segment more practical hadn't arrived until recently. M.2 took over when the market was thinking that boot/apps would go on speedy NVME and content would still get parked on 2.5" drives on SATA.

 

[Li Ken-un]

Really shouldn't be listing the max sequential as the single data point when talking about these drives as it means almost nothing. All about the the smaller block size and random read/write speeds and now long it can sustain them.

Ditto and I would also add endurance ratings to that.

The Micron XTR is capable of sustaining 35~60 drive writes per day depending on how you write to it, and it costs less than its Optane nearest competitor while providing higher capacity.

M.2 took over when the market was thinking that boot/apps would go on speedy NVME and content would still get parked on 2.5" drives on SATA.

And for some of us, “content” just means virtual machines or databases, which means they also need to live on high-bandwidth low-latency media to be satisfactory. But we’re not ordinary consumers. 🙂

 

[newtechldtech]

Meanwhile , Apple is still asking for $400 upgrade price from 256GB to 1TB SSD , and dont bother ask about 4TB you will get a heart attack .. oh and is Gen3 PCIe SSD BTW not even GEN 4 or 5

 

[Deleted member 2838871]

Meanwhile , Apple is still asking for $400 upgrade price from 256GB to 1TB SSD , and dont bother ask about 4TB you will get a heart attack .. oh and is Gen3 PCIe SSD BTW not even GEN 4 or 5

Hahah… what’s sad is the Apple fans will pay those stupid prices anyway… for previous gen tech.

The m18 Alienware laptop I just ordered I went with the 2nd best Ryzen CPU and 4080 GPU because for 2560x1600 the top CPU and 4090 weren’t worth the extra $650 to me.

I also went with 16GB DDR5 and a 512GB SSD because it’s gonna be far cheaper for me to swap to 64GB ram and add 4x SSDs myself than to pay Dell an additional $3000… but at least the m.2 slots are all Gen 4.