News The 1TB Samsung 980 SSD Falls to Just $119

[Admin]

Over at Newegg, you can get $20 off Samsung’s 1TB 980 Pro M.2 NVMe drive — down to just $119.99, which makes for an impressive $0.11 per GB.

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[danlw]

It amazes me that there are still people, gamers included, who haven't made the switch to an SSD because of the lame excuse of spinny disks being cheaper per GB. To me its like saying "I don't want a Tesla because I get more storage per dollar from an 18-wheel truck." Capacity is not the end-all be-all of storage. Speed plays a factor; otherwise we would all be using tape drives. Your daily driver (boot & programs drive) should be fast. Your storage container where you keep all your junk (movies, photos) should be big, but it doesn't have to be fast.

As I see SSDs get cheaper and cheaper the excuse to not make the switch gets more and more lame. Even the cheap government computer I use at work comes standard with an M.2 SSD! So if anybody is still booting from a spinny disk, the government is more up to date than they are!

Of course, if you can easily afford a Tesla semi (8TB SSD) more power to you.

 

[g-unit1111]

It amazes me that there are still people, gamers included, who haven't made the switch to an SSD because of the lame excuse of spinny disks being cheaper per GB. To me its like saying "I don't want a Tesla because I get more storage per dollar from an 18-wheel truck." Capacity is not the end-all be-all of storage. Speed plays a factor; otherwise we would all be using tape drives. Your daily driver (boot & programs drive) should be fast. Your storage container where you keep all your junk (movies, photos) should be big, but it doesn't have to be fast.

As I see SSDs get cheaper and cheaper the excuse to not make the switch gets more and more lame. Even the cheap government computer I use at work comes standard with an M.2 SSD! So if anybody is still booting from a spinny disk, the government is more up to date than they are!

Of course, if you can easily afford a Tesla semi (8TB SSD) more power to you.

Yeah I totally agree.

Traditional hard drives are only cheaper once you get past 6GB. If your storage needs are over that then that's when you get a hard drive of that capacity, then you get a mechanical drive. But everyone should at least have a good SSD or even an M2 for a boot drive.

That price for that Samsung 980 is ridiculous. I just bought a WD SN750, but I might use that as an external storage drive and get the Samsung as a boot drive.