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They're here. Samsung 960 EVO 500GB at $250. That's insane my friend. I guess it depends how long you've been in the game. I remember my 40MB drive being huge

They're here. Samsung 960 EVO 500GB at $250. That's insane my friend. I guess it depends how long you've been in the game. I remember my 40MB drive being huge after we upgraded from a 12MB drive. It was truly hard to find enough to fill it up with.

agumonkey 9y ago
Once tiny tiny sad thing, they shifted the entry models since. I used to find 40$ average but good brand (intel) ssd; now it's impossible.
- mark-r 9y ago
  That's exactly the opposite of the way I expected things to turn out. Hard drives with their moving parts have a floor on the price, just because you can't get all those parts any cheaper; the only way to get the $/TB lower is to keep making them bigger. SSDs have no such problem, so I expected on the low end we'd see SSDs undercutting hard drives by a lot. Where are the $20 SSDs?
  - tertius 9y ago
    Here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010Q588D4?tag=slicinc-20&ascsubtag=4fa774ec666211e7886b0e774cf9d6690INT https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010Q588D4?tag=slicinc-20&...
    - agumonkey 9y ago
      I often run from usb flash drives, never tried a recent micro sd; I wonder how different they are in terms of everything.
  - pixl97 9y ago
    There is no reason to produce $20 SSD's at this time. There is more demand than production so it makes more sense to produce large, high profit drives.
tombrossman 9y ago
I'm now using the 256GB drive (a 850 EVO Pro) as primary with the old 128GB holding my music collection and it's a pain to manage. Ubuntu FDE with multiple drives under /home isn't as simple or reliable as I would like, and I want to move everything back to one single fast drive. I should probably take the time to reformat & reinstall across both as a ZFS partition, then wait another year for 1TB prices to come down. 1TB SSDs just aren't cheap enough yet for me to justify buying one. 500GB will fill up again very quickly once everything is on one drive. I'll frequently shoot a few hundred camera raw photos, then export many as 16-bit TIFF to be stitched into large panoramas or fused together (using exposure bracketed photos). This uses huge amounts of disk space and I want a minimum of 100GB free space as a buffer.

agumonkey 9y ago

Once tiny tiny sad thing, they shifted the entry models since. I used to find 40$ average but good brand (intel) ssd; now it's impossible.

mark-r 9y ago
That's exactly the opposite of the way I expected things to turn out. Hard drives with their moving parts have a floor on the price, just because you can't get all those parts any cheaper; the only way to get the $/TB lower is to keep making them bigger. SSDs have no such problem, so I expected on the low end we'd see SSDs undercutting hard drives by a lot. Where are the $20 SSDs?
- tertius 9y ago
  Here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010Q588D4?tag=slicinc-20&ascsubtag=4fa774ec666211e7886b0e774cf9d6690INT https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010Q588D4?tag=slicinc-20&...
  - agumonkey 9y ago
    I often run from usb flash drives, never tried a recent micro sd; I wonder how different they are in terms of everything.
- pixl97 9y ago
  There is no reason to produce $20 SSD's at this time. There is more demand than production so it makes more sense to produce large, high profit drives.

tombrossman 9y ago

I'm now using the 256GB drive (a 850 EVO Pro) as primary with the old 128GB holding my music collection and it's a pain to manage. Ubuntu FDE with multiple drives under /home isn't as simple or reliable as I would like, and I want to move everything back to one single fast drive. I should probably take the time to reformat & reinstall across both as a ZFS partition, then wait another year for 1TB prices to come down. 1TB SSDs just aren't cheap enough yet for me to justify buying one. 500GB will fill up again very quickly once everything is on one drive. I'll frequently shoot a few hundred camera raw photos, then export many as 16-bit TIFF to be stitched into large panoramas or fused together (using exposure bracketed photos). This uses huge amounts of disk space and I want a minimum of 100GB free space as a buffer.