News SSD Upgraders Take Note, Analysts Expect up to 13% Price Drop During Q3

[Admin]

SSD pricing looks set to slide by as much as 13% during Q3 this year, compounding the 15-20% drop seen in Q2.

SSD Upgraders Take Note, Analysts Expect up to 13% Price Drop During Q3 : Read more

 

[CelicaGT]

Every m.2 slot in every machine I own has had an NVMe drive installed in the last couple months. Doing my part to deplete inventory....

 

[emike09]

I'm just waiting for affordable 4 and 8TB drives from reputable manufacturers. I have four NVMe drives - two on the motherboard and two in a PCI-e module. I can't fit any more 2TB drives in my system, but have need for more NVMe storage.

 

[Lafong]

I've been observing the falling prices of 4 TB SSDs of all types. They've been cut nearly in half in the last 12 to 18 months. Likely will commonly found at under 200 shortly.

HOWEVER......I am having trouble convincing myself that SSDs are the best choice for long-term archival storage, where 95% of files are written once and rarely if ever read. Where speed is of minimum consequence after the original write. Never mind the price. So, I"m still considering HDDs.

I did bite on a new 500 GB NVMe boot drive for $35 a few months ago. I now see some under $30 at that size.

 

[TechieTwo]

Creating "artificial scarcity" is a two way street where at the end of the day a supplier might wish that they were more scrupulous.

 

[bit_user]

I'm just waiting for affordable 4 and 8TB drives from reputable manufacturers. I have four NVMe drives - two on the motherboard and two in a PCI-e module. I can't fit any more 2TB drives in my system, but have need for more NVMe storage.

They don't get much more reputable than Solidigm (the company formed by merging SK Hynix and Intel's NAND division). Their D7-P5520 is engineered for maximum reliability and incredibly consistent latency.

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Under The Hood - Solidigm's Latest Enterprise SSDs

Solidigm recently introduced the new PCIe 4.0 D7-P5520 and D7-P5620 family of SSDs targeting…

www.storagereview.com

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Here's the best price I've found on their 4 TB and 8 TB models:

• https://www.provantage.com/solidigm-ssdpf2kx038t1n1~7SLDG02U.htm
• https://www.provantage.com/solidigm-ssdpf2kx076t1n1~7SLDG02W.htm

I'm about to buy the 4 TB. If you have $1200 to spare, they even make a 16 TB drive.

If all of those are too rich for your wallet, another option is to buy used datacenter SSDs on ebay.

 

[emike09]

They don't get much more reputable than Solidigm (the company formed by merging SK Hynix and Intel's NAND division). Their D7-P5520 is engineered for maximum reliability and incredibly consistent latency.

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Under The Hood - Solidigm's Latest Enterprise SSDs

Solidigm recently introduced the new PCIe 4.0 D7-P5520 and D7-P5620 family of SSDs targeting…

www.storagereview.com

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Here's the best price I've found on their 4 TB and 8 TB models:

• https://www.provantage.com/solidigm-ssdpf2kx038t1n1~7SLDG02U.htm
• https://www.provantage.com/solidigm-ssdpf2kx076t1n1~7SLDG02W.htm

I'm about to buy the 4 TB. If you have $1200 to spare, they even make a 16 TB drive.

If all of those are too rich for your wallet, another option is to buy used datacenter SSDs on ebay.

I had a bad experience with Solidigm trying to RMA an Intel 660p after the merger. Instead of shipping me a replacement product, they insisted on using Western Union to send me a refund. Weirdest interaction I've had in an RMA. The reps I spoke to each time was from India, and I didn't feel comfortable with the Western Union transaction so I wrote it off and bought a Samsung drive instead. Everything about it seemed sketch.

After I stopped communicating with them (official support@solidigm.com address), I received about 20 additional e-mails asking why I stopped communication with them and to send them my financial info for Western Union. Everything screamed scam, but the communications seemed to be from official channels. Rant over.

Those drives listed are U.2 drives, but I could replace my existing PCI-e to NVMe adapter with a PCI-e to U.2 adapter. U.2/U.3 is superior anyways. I wish consumer/enthusiast motherboards came with them natively.

 

[bit_user]

I had a bad experience with Solidigm trying to RMA an Intel 660p after the merger. Instead of shipping me a replacement product, they insisted on using Western Union to send me a refund. Weirdest interaction I've had in an RMA. The reps I spoke to each time was from India, and I didn't feel comfortable with the Western Union transaction so I wrote it off and bought a Samsung drive instead. Everything about it seemed sketch.

After I stopped communicating with them (official support@solidigm.com address), I received about 20 additional e-mails asking why I stopped communication with them and to send them my financial info for Western Union. Everything screamed scam, but the communications seemed to be from official channels. Rant over.

That's indeed quite weird.

With hard drives, you typically get a refurb drive as a warranty replacement. The logic of that seems to be that you drive was used before it failed, so why should they replace it with a new one? The only time it's really a bad deal is when the drive fails in the first couple months of use, which is why you often see the advice to return failed drives through Amazon or Newegg if you can. Anyway, I wonder if they didn't have enough refurb units to serve as replacements.

I have bought several of Intel's upper-tier SATA SSDs and a PCIe card (the datacenter version of the legendary 750), but never any of the M.2 NVMe generation. So far, never had a failure.

My hope and expectation is that their datacenter products are indeed a cut above their consumer gear, as reviews like this suggest:

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Solidigm P5520 Maintains Lead in Enterprise Workloads

The primary trend that is easy to see across a wide range of tests is that the Solidigm P5520 offers exceptional performance and very low latency across the board.

www.storagereview.com

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