Samsung 850 EVO 2TB SATA6G SSD $749.99 FS @ Newegg

[VirtualLarry]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147441

$50 off list, this is the first discount on the 2TB that I've seen.

NAND-based SSDs may become obsolete in 2016, thanks to Intel / Micron 3D-XPoint memory technology.

 

[Kaido]

It's been getting good reviews:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9451/the-2tb-samsung-850-pro-evo-ssd-review

Excited to see 2TB become available mainstream!

 

[Denithor]

Now if the price could just be cut by a factor of 4-5 these could completely replace spinners.

At least until 2016.

 

[Kaido]

Now if the price could just be cut by a factor of 4-5 these could completely replace spinners.

At least until 2016.

I don't think I'd ever want spinners replaced. In my experience, when SSD's die, they simply go ka-put & that's that. Hard drives tend to wear down & get crappy, which at least allows you to save the data. I've migrated a lot of computers to SSD's & having them fail is horrible because you just instantly lose everything when they fail :thumbsdown:

 

[DaveSimmons]

I don't think I'd ever want spinners replaced. In my experience, when SSD's die, they simply go ka-put & that's that. Hard drives tend to wear down & get crappy, which at least allows you to save the data. I've migrated a lot of computers to SSD's & having them fail is horrible because you just instantly lose everything when they fail :thumbsdown:

I've had a couple of platter drives fail instantly too. For both kinds you need backups, and off-site backups for anything precious.

 

[Kaido]

I've had a couple of platter drives fail instantly too. For both kinds you need backups, and off-site backups for anything precious.

Yeah, same here. Although my SSD failure rate vs. HDD "completely dead" failure rate is like, at least 50:1. But nothing beats RAID with local, offsite, and offline backups :awe:

 

[fire400]

awesome for mobile DJ's

 

[weevilone]

Promo code: EMCAWNA28

Takes 10% off Samsung SSD's. Makes this drive $674.99. This makes the 2TB 850 Pro a hot deal as well.

 

[kmmatney]

Good to see these drives out - I think it's only a matter of time before spinners will be a niche product. But for now, its still pretty expensive at this size. A decent alternative is the Seagate 2 TB hybrid, with 8 GB of Nand. I recently bought one for my son, replacing an old 500 GB hybrid, and it was a lot faster. It's certainly not as fast as an SSD, but windows startup is very fast, and price is only $93.