Sandisk brings back affordable storage to rescue buyers from the SSD crisis — new 320 and 520 SATA SSDs are ready to launch

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tiradium@reddit

Ok so bringing back inferior products to the market at a higher or same cost when they launched initially. Cool cool cool 😂

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mittelwerk@reddit

SATA SSD prices have surged by 10% to 20% over the past year, due to ongoing storage shortages. So, we shouldn't expect the sensible pricing on the Sandisk 320 or Sandisk 520. For perspective, a 250GB SATA drive starts at $42; a 500GB drive costs at least $101. If you want a higher-capacity drive, expect to pay around $204 for a 1TB drive and up to $329 for a 4TB drive.

So, even if the price from manufacturer to retailer is cheaper, we shouldn't expect that price reduction to reach the consumer? Besides, if the NAND itself is the expensive component here, does it make that much of a difference if the SSD is SATA or NVMe when it comes to MSRP?

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Individual_Tart_5591@reddit

I recall SanDisk drives being generally bad as well so I don't think it'll be good

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LittlebitsDK@reddit

520GB? seriously? minimum these days should be 1TB... games are easily 100+GB each if not way more...

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Vodkanadian@reddit

Not everything is about gaming, 500gb is plenty for everyday use.

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kittymoo67@reddit

and even then gigabit connections are normal. go bathe and your game will be done downlaoding. its easy

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doxypoxy@reddit

Can gamers please, for once, think beyond JUST their use case?

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LittlebitsDK@reddit

ok... not enough room for the cat and pron collection... there better? or my pirate collection or or or...

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Martin0022jkl@reddit

For a PC that would only be used for browsing the web and maybe office, 320 is plenty

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hackenclaw@reddit

the problem is the games itself, 15yrs ago games were only 5-10GB.

Game developer should store the game in compressed mode and use multicore CPU to decompress it

Modern games usually have very very low CPU usage.

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OftenTangential@reddit

Those are just the model numbers, not the storage size

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jedrider@reddit

I still have my moving iron if I wanted to remain with high capacity SATA.

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kaden-99@reddit

IDK to me these days SATA SSDs are more suited for mass storage applications and these tiny sizes kinda make no sense for that.

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imaginary_num6er@reddit

While pricing is still unknown, these new drives should be more accessible than M.2 NVMe drives, though you sacrifice some performance.

Yeah Sandisk and affordable don't go in the same sentence

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Seanspeed@reddit

I would gladly buy a 2TB SATA SSD for music, videos and photos if they were actually meaningfully cheaper. Not holding my breath.

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_Purgatory_@reddit

Nothing more than an advert and not even stating the prices, then them stating ssds have gone up this year 10-20% is just a bad joke as the truth is they have gone up 4x 5x 1tb drives have started hitting $500 8tb drives are over $4000 now a SATA ssd. It's all greed and insanity now and SanDisk and Samsung were the fist to raise prices and keep raising them.

Remember SanDisk were making the western digital ssds and now renamed them to SanDisk. Just go check the price of the WD ssds that remain and the new renamed ones. They are heading to prices that match gold price for weight.

I hope people remember what these companies are doing and when prices crash as they will and they come begging for us to buy.. Choose the company that behaved ethically.. If any even remain anymore.

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Flimsy_Complaint490@reddit

where do you find these prices ? Im looking at amazon at a 2 tb lexar nm800 pro, which is not the highest end ssd but pretty decent and its 272 dollars, sandisk extreme pros go for similiar too

on the sata ssd side i see sandisk plus 1 tb go for 130 usd, crucial bx500 as well. cant find a 8 tb sara ssd from sandisk at all but samsung qvo go for 1k usd which is bad value as a wd s580x costs 1100. sandisk has not yet renamed the black or blue brands yet to my knowledge.

all stuff is on my local amazon.

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