SSD prices climbing fast!

Good to know about the fanxiang brand, the better VFM options seem to be focused around those types at this time

As mentioned, some of the branding names also make me smile.
 
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fanxiang and netac are one of the more reputable and recognisable chinese brands. i'd have no problems recommending any of their products
 
I suppose the Lexar brand being equally recognised, got a couple of their NVME's, 2280 790, at 4tb and they have been great
 
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I suppose the Lexar brand being equally recognised, got a couple of their NVME's, 2280 790, at 4tb and they have been great
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When I looked at Lexar I just felt they're just a rebranding exercise on some sort of oem, same with the likes or orico (been around ages but more for enclosures).

Klevv as a brand has come out pretty recently in the UK but seems to be getting pretty good reviews, not tried them myself though.

The thing is there are likely brands that have been around ages, we just don't have experience of them outside of china, biwin is a perfect example here as a company, I've seen them mentioned a few times with 'chinese company' builds online but they've been around 30 years....
 
Not necessarily for the right reasons, but it might be fortunate over time, we could become more familiar with these lesser known too us brands.

Good off hunting for Klevv ........lol
 
Meddling-Monk said:
Agree, it's doubtful you'll get anything with more reasonable prices soon.

We not only have a general shortage, but with Crucial basically leaving the market due to Micron pulling out from giving them the parts to sell to consumers and them concentrating on AI/Server sales, we lost a major player of consumer SSDs. And like the GPU shortage a few years ago, those who can buy have stocked up and pushed prices up. Given there's no stock coming in, prices will be unable to come down whilst others keep the prices high by buying still at higher prices (on the consumer side).

So you're probably looking at the cheaper Chinese stuff or looking at least 2-3 years before prices start to even come back down (and it won't be back to these levels either, but a slow climb down).

Recomendation is if the storage isn't too important to go wtih cheaper Chinese products.
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I thought that whilst Crucial is leaving the consumer market, they will still supply NAND to other consumer brands? Maybe I have got that wrong. If so, maybe the hit to the market won't be quite as significant. He says optimistically...
 
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I thought that whilst Crucial is leaving the consumer market, they will still supply NAND to other consumer brands? Maybe I have got that wrong. If so, maybe the hit to the market won't be quite as significant. He says optimistically...
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They have to have some NAND left to supply to other consumer brands first....
 
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Bet you didn't pay that for it though..!
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I paid £240? Which I thought was a lot because 2 weeks before that OCUK had a sale of it for £199. I saw someone posted it in the What you bought Image thread but the offer was over when I checked.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I paid £240? Which I thought was a lot because 2 weeks before that OCUK had a sale of it for £199. I saw someone posted it in the What you bought Image thread but the offer was over when I checked.
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Seems cheap now though.
At that price, it was a good buy for what it offers
 
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Seems cheap now though.
At that price, it was a good buy for what it offers
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Price per TB it is probably still quite expensive because I did pick up a 2TB for £90 in November., albeit it wasn't the same drive. But the convenience of having it in a single enclosure is what makes it worth it.

Compared to what it is now, it is no question.
 
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Raymond Lin said:
I paid £240? Which I thought was a lot because 2 weeks before that OCUK had a sale of it for £199. I saw someone posted it in the What you bought Image thread but the offer was over when I checked.
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I missed them £199 deals as well, I wanted two of them
One for my PS5 Pro to upgrade the 2TB I have in it, and one to replace my faulty 4TB SSD which was my PC steam games drive.

Then I could have put the old 2TB m.2 from my PS5 into the Ext M.2 USB holder I have.
 
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I paid £319.99 for my Crucial T710 Gen 5 4TB during Black Friday week last November. I knew it was a good deal as the lowest it’s been since its release in July was £289.99 for one day in October. I wasn’t in the market that day and this was the next lowest price it’s ever been.

Used the very handy PriceSpy website which automatically tracks prices of products as I can’t be arsed to track prices manually.
 
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Cheapest that drive has ever been on the rainforest is £200 that was on the 28th March 2025. Only for one day though apparently.
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Maybe it has for that paricular drive. I'm not sure though, using Camel or their own price history services, how accurate it flags limited time type sales etc. I've paid less for some items, over the years, a little vague I know, than they have shown at when looking at their previous price trends.
 
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Maybe it has for that paricular drive. I'm not sure though, using Camel or their own price history services, how accurate it flags limited time type sales etc. I've paid less for some items, over the years, a little vague I know, than they have shown at when looking at their previous price trends.
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Looking at Camels tracking the lowest the WD SN850X 4TB has ever been is £257.95, so more than the PriceSpy price history. It was mentioned above that ocUK had it for £199 at one point in time so I could believe rainforest had it for £200 at one point.
 
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