Why are SSD prices dive bombing all the sudden?

Chinese pumping and dumping before the next round of tariffs hit

Feels good not living in Amerishit

because i bought at the original price last month

I SAID CHEAP RAM NOT CHEAP SSD

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Don't fall for the 970 Pro meme, TLC NAND is fine.

use your ssd as ram

No fuck that RAM is still like 25 times as fast as SSD

>people that want fast get m2 SSDs
>people that want fast but cheap get hybrids
>technology is old by now
>even average consumer wants more than 120GB
Probably a mixture of the above.

Yeah it's surely nice to always have stupid high prices on everything instead of just when you're playing economy chicken against a production titan.

Because China is making NAND now.
Also that SSD is cheap because it doesn't use DRAM as cache and has a small SLC cache.
Still works though but you should avoid it and get the ADATA SU800.

This SSD is as cheap as it can get while still being a acceptable choice.

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>cheap as it can get
It can be a lot more cheaper. Unless you really believe we've hit the limit on how cheap SSD can be.

The shitty chink manufacturers figured out how to make crap SSDs.

As cheap as it can get would imply getting a stupidly small SLC cache and stop giving a fuck about performance and reliability, also using the new chink TLC NAND and a Controller no one has ever heard before.

But like i said, the ADATA SU650 is a cheap SSD that still can be considered decent (500MB/s sequential, proper random read/write speeds, over 70k IOPS, Controller wont die on its own, etc).

The thumbnail looks like a man sitting behind a desk, facing to the viewers left, and behind him is a wall with stuff he is selling, maybe books or magazines.

What kind of drugs are you on?

Cheapest 500gb ssd to use as external drive for PS4?

ADATA SU800.

>SSD
>external drive
Just why?

Why not?

The only real advantage is speed, which you lose most of by using it as an external drive on anything but eSATA which the PS4 doesn't have. You also don't need huge speed on a fucking PS4 either.

Rotational hard disks offer greater capacity and more capacity for the money.

He can't use it for things other than the PS4?
I use SSDs as external drives all the time. I like the transfer speed, and traveling with them I'm not worried about being rough with my bag and damaging a disk.

They aren't.

Thanks for getting nobodys hopes up, OP.

just buy 2 and raid.

Too true

this guy should be ignored for not understanding random reads/writes.

>durrr the numbas are bigger

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Which is great, because everyday use wouldn't even make use of the speed

are you trolling or serious?

Not him but that is 2 year old news, and chinese stole NAND technology from other companies and bought some and now they are making their own 3D TLC NAND but no MLC or SLC NAND.
In the past Samsung and Micron tried to pull the same thing they are currently doing with DIMM chips and it backfired them really bad.

He's serious.

>Hybrid drive
>Fast but cheap
Pick zero. Hybrids are absolute ass, ssd portion is too small and constantly needs to recache while the hdd portion is usually a shitty 5400 that keeps spinning down/up every 2 minutes. Had to literally rewrite a driver to get mine to preform as a consistent low performance HDD (priced as a performance HDD)

>>people that want fast but cheap get hybrids
Hybrids are literaly the worst part of both SSDs and HDDs with no benefit.

>What kind of drugs are you on?
Nothing! RC Cola, but that doesn't count?
Am I the only one who sees this? I can't not see it now.

Its been a news for few months.

Amazon had a flash sale of 240GB SSDs for $40 the other day

I was like "whaaaat"

DRAM != NAND, but still it happened before.

Is this a good choice?

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no

DRAM

AND

NAND

tech products with black people on them are never good

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Why? It's cheap and everyone is buying it.

No, Literally the worst SSDs in the market outside Chinese ones, even some Chinese(Mushkin and Kingdian) ones are better than that.
Avoid every single Kingston SSD.

>Gold standard
860 EVO
>Cheap SSD
ADATA SU800.
>NVMe SSDs
Avoid unless you are doing something that needs one.

>Why
Kingston makes the worst SSDs in the market when it comes to reliability and durability, and in the case of this one horrible speeds too.

>He can't use it for things other than the PS4?
Question said PS4 so I assumed that's what he wanted it for.

What about the Sandisk Plus?

It's a PS4. It isn't going to benefit that hugely from quicker random reads.

NAND price fixing is not a problem since everyone started making their own NAND, in the past it was either Intel or Samsung NAND.
Now Toshiba, Micron, Intel, Sandisk, Even fucking Chink NAND is reliable as fuck, still Samsung is at the top but now people have other options so NAND is cheaper now.

>Question said PS4 so I assumed that's what he wanted it for.
Even if he is, aren't the games like 50GB or something? I'd want a SSD just for transfering from the computer.

You get what you pay.
ADATA SSDs are rebranded Intel NAND with a Silicon motion controller(Good) which is why they are good even at cheap prices.
Sandisk SSD Plus are acceptable but not the best, you are buying the lowest end you can.

Also Avoid 120GB SSDs doesn't matter what brand.

how's this for an OS drive? like just for a little speed over regular HD, but nothing important stored.
(I clone my setups so if things go south I can get back up and running quickly)

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NAND price fixing IS a problem, the SSD prices are 3x as much as what they're supposed to be if the price fixing wasn't done.

Price fixing stalled innovation for nearly 5 years because of this.

You want at least 256 GB

You're not the only one, I see it too, but you have to admit it was a weird comment hahaaa

Look for 256 GB SSDs, avoid PNY, Kingston and Chink brands.

120 GB isn't bad for OS. I use one myself, split into 2/50 GB part for OS and 70 GB games/apps. Still I'd wish I had spent more for 240 GB for more space, but this works fine.

>ADATA SSDs are rebranded Intel NAND with a Silicon motion controller(Good)

i give this a .5% chance of being true

Racist much? Frig off back to before me and my buddies fuck you up. #BashTheFash #Resist

They don't use the standard MLC nand Intel SSDs use, but the low end one they developed together with Micron and never used because they split.
For example the ADATA SU650 uses the same NAND that Intel 600p (29F01T2ANCMG2), Adata SU800 uses the Intel/Micron one, SU900 is a fully Micron MLC NAND though, not the Intel/Micron one.

See ADATA SU650 internals
And Intel 600p Internals.

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You stand alone basedboy.

stfu nigger

What does this even mean

can i get a quick rundown on this guy?

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>I was only pretending to be retarded

>t.

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Jow Forums and Jow Forums memes mixed together.

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Got one, that failed after 2 years, but you get 3 years warranty, just send it to them, even without bill and they replace it with the newest model.

Sandisk can be good

Got a nvme for bootdrive and programe
Have on it my VM, which improved the anoying loadingtime. The extra money was worth it, else the ssd i used before does the job just as well

> boomer doesn't understand USB speeds

Call me when we get down to $20-30 per terabyte like HDDs.

post ur number then

When QLC or PLC SSDs are a thing maybe.

Remember that if you're buying an SSD that doesn't have these
>DRAM cache
>SLC/MLC
>+3 years warranty
then you're buying a dud

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I'm not the one you first responded to though.

>960GB SATA SSD
>135.99 burger coupons
FUCK YOU AMERICANS!!!!!!!!

>Buy 25 SSDs
>Configure them as raid0
>Set them as the computers swap space, without actual RAM
Imagine the posibilities.

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please go back where you came from

it would still be slower than RAM

Still slower than RAM because Latency.

I only have 2x 256gb SSD's but I don't need any more storage. The only big game I have is gta 5

>buying TLC SSDs
Never ever.
MLC for general use, NVMe for high performance, Optane for low latency random I/O, NVDIMM or other persistent memory for write-assurance eg: ZFS SLOG.

No they're not you retard.

The real reason why prices are down is because the industry took a misstep and configured their plants to produce more NAND in anticipation of demand skyrocketing. What really happened was that the demand rose marginally.

Meanwhile DRAM, which was manufactured at those same plants, skyrocketed in demand but suffered from lower production.

I'm so sick of these fucking children on this site who don't know a fucking thing about what happened in the industry. While we're at it, some of the companies still have entire new NAND fabs being built in asia that are going to be online within a year or so. Prices will drop further unless NAND demand explodes and it's because of overproduction

1tb of ram user.
Just imagine

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I can't wait until Samsung 4TB SSDs are $200. Wish they would make some 20TB 3.5" form factor drives.

Kingston makes/made some great SSD's, this is not one of them though.

They already exist in SAS.

>Why are SSD prices dive bombing all the sudden?
The recession is at hand.

Truly the patrician times we are living in.

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I want SATA III, and reasonable prices. 20c/GB and I'll be satisfied.