WD SN850X 4TB drive

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I have just upgraded my old trusty 2TB 850 Evo SATA drive which I use for steam to a lovely much faster WD SN850X 4TB drive.

The speed that games are loading is certainly very noticeably faster.

So now my system has:

OS drive - Samsung 980 Pro 1TB NVME Gen4 drive
Games drive - WD SN850X 4TB NVME Gen4 drive

The WD drive is marginally faster with better IOPS that the Samsung, but the Samsung is MLC flash, where the WD is TLC. MLC is slightly more robust for an OS drive.

I still have my 2TB and a 1TB Samsung SATA SSDs installed, I might remove the 2TB and gift that into my wifes PC.
 
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The prices have come down quite fast on SSD's. I got a 1TB 850X in late November for £100, can get them for £65 now. Think Black Friday should have some nice deals on 4TB NVME drives. Hopping for < £180 for a WD 850X 4TB or Samsung 990 4TB.
 
iron_monkey said:
Crazy how quick nvme prices have dropped. I'll grab a 4tb on black Friday
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My suggestion is buy now, the industry is saying that pricing is going up from September.

Basically around the start of covid there were massive surpluses of NAND flash and the brands all bought loads of stocks at knock down pricing, which is why storage pricing has crashed. I was informed that the pricing to rebuy nvme drives has risen by aprox 10% in the last week or so, and it is expected to go up again another 10% by mid September. What that means for Black Friday pricing, who knows, but I took the leap now with my new 4TB drive before the new prices take over the end user pricing.
 
FredFlint said:
The prices have come down quite fast on SSD's. I got a 1TB 850X in late November for £100, can get them for £65 now. Think Black Friday should have some nice deals on 4TB NVME drives. Hopping for < £180 for a WD 850X 4TB or Samsung 990 4TB.
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Don't bank it on, pricing is going up according to the industry insiders. Hence why I decided not to wait for Black Friday.
 
Ace Modder said:
My suggestion is buy now, the industry is saying that pricing is going up from September.

Basically around the start of covid there were massive surpluses of NAND flash and the brands all bought loads of stocks at knock down pricing, which is why storage pricing has crashed. I was informed that the pricing to rebuy nvme drives has risen by aprox 10% in the last week or so, and it is expected to go up again another 10% by mid September. What that means for Black Friday pricing, who knows, but I took the leap now with my new 4TB drive before the new prices take over the end user pricing.
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I dont need any more storage, but if it got cheap enough why not.
 
I just bought a 2TB one for £109. I looked at the 4TB but I don't really use that much storage, great price on it though. I actually wanted a new drive for photo storage but I'll move my game drive, a 2TB SN770, to use for that and use the SN850X for the games.

I also suspect we're very near the bottom on pricing.
 
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