The cheap SSDs thread

[you2]

Higher density - samsung is releasing a consumer 8TB QLC drive this year. They could go 16 or 32 if there was a market. The samsung drive is pretty darn good 'cept it is not nvme. The number of write cycles it supports is fantastic.

I don't really see the point of QLC drives yet... With prices so close to TLC I don't see them making sense right now.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Team Group GX1 480GB SATA 2.5" SSD $44.99

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This is the lowest that this SSD has been, I believe. At least for the last year, year-and-a-half. I picked up a few just before prices started to rise, for like $45-46.

 

[VirtualLarry]

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Silicon Power A55 "Ace" SATA 2.5" 512GB SSD $51.99, 256GB $29.99. Pretty reasonable, probably not all-time-low, but close.

Last I knew, these were advertised with DRAM and SLC caching.

 

[Jimminy]

Team Group GX1 480GB SATA 2.5" SSD $44.99

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This is the lowest that this SSD has been, I believe. At least for the last year, year-and-a-half. I picked up a few just before prices started to rise, for like $45-46.

I bought one early January for $47. I think it was on newegg sale, but only a few dollars off. I don't know much about them, but it's still working after 6 mo. Hope it lasts a good while; too poor to replace it

 

[VirtualLarry]

Team Group MP33 M.2 2280 256GB PCIe 3.0 x4 with NVMe 1.3 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) TM8FP6256G0C101 $32.99

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Patriot P300 M.2 2280 256GB PCIe Gen3 x4, NVMe 1.3 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) P300P256GM28US $36.99

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[you2]

Folks: We need cheap prices on these drives (33TB to 100TB):
https://www.techradar.com/news/at-100tb-the-worlds-biggest-ssd-gets-an-eye-watering-price-tag
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Please please let us know when we can buy 50TB (or even a 33TB) SSD for $100.

 

[ElFenix]

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Patriot 2TB SATA 2.5" SSD $187.99

Wow, dipping below $200 for 2TB. I'm going to make a bold prediction, that we'll see (QLC-powered) SATA 2.5" SSDs, 2TB, for under $160 this year.

couple of the babies jbod'd and i could replace the spinning pile of rust.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Team Group GX2 2.5" 256GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) T253X2256G0C101 $26.99

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"Limit 3 per customer".

Not a bad price at all, to use for builds.

 

[VirtualLarry]

SAMSUNG 860 EVO Series 2.5" 500GB SATA III V-NAND 3-bit MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-76E500B/AM $77.99

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This is actually a decent price... for a Samsung EVO 860, that is. (Overpriced compared to the rest of the their competition, but Samsung is the "Gold Standard" in consumer SSDs.)

 

[Bitman]

Please please let us know when we can buy 50TB (or even a 33TB) SSD for $100.

That 50TB is only $25k, down from infinity only a year ago. At that rate, it won't be long.

 

[Replay]

50T @ $12,500, 100T @ $40,000 Nimbusdata.com Exadrive DC (SAS or SATA, 5 year warranty).

Beat the price decrease, order now!

 

[you2]

Please can't we get it down to $100; or i guess $200 max ?

50T @ $12,500, 100T @ $40,000 Nimbusdata.com Exadrive DC (SAS or SATA, 5 year warranty).

Beat the price decrease, order now!

 

[aigomorla]

4TB SanDisk Ultra... i am guessing its TLC, but its defnitely not QLC, but priced as a competitive QLC.
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultr...hild=1&keywords=4tb+ssd&qid=1594579090&sr=8-4 $489

4TB ADATA QLC.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod..._EqpZUIDyOGJksxLRfSD4Ol75oVW4WrwaAsL8EALw_wcB $399.99

So my grain of salt...

If its for storage of PC games, i would probably not look at anything under 2TB.
Reason for this is games are not getting any smaller. Average game takes anywhere from 30-100GB.
4TB to 2TB price ratio is competitive, so its best to save your budget and try to double it for the 4TB capacity, as they also have a better recycle value.
(meaning u can migrate it to another system or sell it).

If its for boot drive on newer systems i would probably look at a nVME anywhere from 500gb-2TB.
Again, the ratio from 500gb to 2TB is not that bad as well, so this you could allign more with budget.
I personally would split boot drive + game drive. Meaning Boot drive should have only windows + apps for windows outside of gaming.
Let the gaming drive store all the games on its own. This will make windows reinstall much easier on you.

High cap nVME vs SATA you really do not require this unless your into heavy data file serving.
Games only show a marginal improvement over nVME vs SATA. Although it is hinted that Unreal Engine 5 may require nVME, however this to me sounds really moot and more like a pimp the PS5 sale tatic becaause most mid tier gaming systems today will use at least 16GB of ram, and RAM is definitely faster then nVME, hence it would make more sense for the game to load on RAM then stream straight from nVME.

High cap nVME are expensive as hell, as they are mostly aimed at enterprise, and the few which have drizzled down to consumer are still priced at enterprise class. Also most of them will take a U.2 form factor, which most boards are not able to handle without adapters.

 

[you2]

For those that it matters the 4TB SanDisk has a 5 year warranty.

4TB SanDisk Ultra... i am guessing its TLC, but its defnitely not QLC, but priced as a competitive QLC.
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultr...hild=1&keywords=4tb+ssd&qid=1594579090&sr=8-4 $489

4TB ADATA QLC.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1567825-REG/adata_technology_asu630ss_3t84q_r_ultimate_su630_4tb_internal.html/?ap=y&ap=y&smp=y&smp=y&lsft=BI:514&gclid=Cj0KCQjw6ar4BRDnARIsAITGzlAVXh-eeitMQondxWpqwty_EqpZUIDyOGJksxLRfSD4Ol75oVW4WrwaAsL8EALw_wcB $399.99

So my grain of salt...

If its for storage of PC games, i would probably not look at anything under 2TB.
Reason for this is games are not getting any smaller. Average game takes anywhere from 30-100GB.
4TB to 2TB price ratio is competitive, so its best to save your budget and try to double it for the 4TB capacity, as they also have a better recycle value.
(meaning u can migrate it to another system or sell it).

If its for boot drive on newer systems i would probably look at a nVME anywhere from 500gb-2TB.
Again, the ratio from 500gb to 2TB is not that bad as well, so this you could allign more with budget.
I personally would split boot drive + game drive. Meaning Boot drive should have only windows + apps for windows outside of gaming.
Let the gaming drive store all the games on its own. This will make windows reinstall much easier on you.

High cap nVME vs SATA you really do not require this unless your into heavy data file serving.
Games only show a marginal improvement over nVME vs SATA. Although it is hinted that Unreal Engine 5 may require nVME, however this to me sounds really moot and more like a pimp the PS5 sale tatic becaause most mid tier gaming systems today will use at least 16GB of ram, and RAM is definitely faster then nVME, hence it would make more sense for the game to load on RAM then stream straight from nVME.

High cap nVME are expensive as hell, as they are mostly aimed at enterprise, and the few which have drizzled down to consumer are still priced at enterprise class. Also most of them will take a U.2 form factor, which most boards are not able to handle without adapters.

 

[UsandThem]

For those that it matters the 4TB SanDisk has a 5 year warranty.

That particular Sandisk is basically the Western Digital Blue 3D Nand drive (they are owned by WD), so it's a great choice depending on which one is cheaper at the time of purchase. Right now, the Sandisk version is $40 cheaper than the WD Blue in the 4TB size.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Thanks, Aigo. More drives to think about, for Steam storage. I was even considering a 2TB Patriot SATA drive, but ... 4TB? Hmm, maybe!

Kind of surprised that we haven't seen a 4TB QLC Intel NVMe M.2 SSD yet, that would seem to me to be a budget Steam game drive go-to, IMHO. At least, the 1TB 660p NVMe sort-of-was at introduction. (Bought two myself, still running good in RAID-0.)

And your comment about separating OS + programs drive, from Steam game drive is a good one. If I had it to do over again, I would have run my drives separately, if only to make the Macrium Reflect Free backup images smaller on the OS drive. (No need to backup my games collection every few weeks to my NAS, which is running out of room for backups.)

 

[Steltek]

Crucial P2 500GB 3D NAND NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD - $51.99 at Newegg.

 

[nisryus]

Crucial BX500 240GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 - $26.99

Not sure if this is the lowest for this model, but 240 Gb for $26.99 and free shipping is pretty good.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Crucial BX500 240GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 - $26.99

Not sure if this is the lowest for this model, but 240 Gb for $26.99 and free shipping is pretty good.

That's a pretty decent deal on the BX500 drives. I at one point stock-piled a bunch of those for builds. They work pretty decently. I don't remember how much I paid for them back then, but probably around $29.99.

Under $30 for a 240GB is a decent deal either way. Bonus on a decent 1st-party SSD vendor, with a decent warranty. I would probably trust those over Team Group. Then again, they are also DRAM-less, so there's that.

It makes no sense in my mind to spend $19.99 on a 128GB-class SATA SSD, when you can get a 240GB-class SATA SSD for under $30 these days. I don't think $5-8 is going to break a build budget, and the extra space (literally, about double), does come in handy. (Plus, you really don't want to "fill" an SSD to the brim, or performance can really tank, especially write performance.)

 

[daveybrat]

Crucial BX500 240GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 - $26.99

Not sure if this is the lowest for this model, but 240 Gb for $26.99 and free shipping is pretty good.

Great deal on a name brand drive. I picked up the max of 2 myself.

 

[Steltek]

Patriot Memory Burst SSD 240GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive 2.5" - $29.99 at Amazon. They also have the 120GB at $19.99 and 480GB at $51.99.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Patriot Burst 2.5" 480GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) PBU480GS25SSDR $45.99 + $0.99 ship

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"Limit 3 per customer"

 

[you2]

A little scary nearly 20% of the reviews claim failures after a month or two. Maybe just a bad batch ?

Patriot Burst 2.5" 480GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) PBU480GS25SSDR $45.99 + $0.99 ship

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[mikeford]

Maybe a bad batch of end users.

 

[UsandThem]

A little scary nearly 20% of the reviews claim failures after a month or two. Maybe just a bad batch ?

Well, they didn't name them "Burst" for nothing!

Maybe a bad batch of end users.

It could be.

However, smaller SSD brands like Mushkin, Patriot, etc. likely don't have as good QC as the larger players do (or at least whoever makes the drives for them).