Sandisk brings back affordable storage to rescue buyers from the SSD crisis — new 320 and 520 SATA SSDs are ready to launch
Posted by sr_local@reddit | hardware | View on Reddit | 20 comments
tiradium@reddit
Ok so bringing back inferior products to the market at a higher or same cost when they launched initially. Cool cool cool 😂
mittelwerk@reddit
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?
Individual_Tart_5591@reddit
I recall SanDisk drives being generally bad as well so I don't think it'll be good
LittlebitsDK@reddit
520GB? seriously? minimum these days should be 1TB... games are easily 100+GB each if not way more...
Vodkanadian@reddit
Not everything is about gaming, 500gb is plenty for everyday use.
kittymoo67@reddit
and even then gigabit connections are normal. go bathe and your game will be done downlaoding. its easy
doxypoxy@reddit
Can gamers please, for once, think beyond JUST their use case?
LittlebitsDK@reddit
ok... not enough room for the cat and pron collection... there better? or my pirate collection or or or...
Martin0022jkl@reddit
For a PC that would only be used for browsing the web and maybe office, 320 is plenty
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.
OftenTangential@reddit
Those are just the model numbers, not the storage size
jedrider@reddit
I still have my moving iron if I wanted to remain with high capacity SATA.
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.
imaginary_num6er@reddit
Yeah Sandisk and affordable don't go in the same sentence
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.
_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.
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.
dparks1234@reddit
Sometimes people don’t state their county and they’re actually talking about Hong Kong Dollars or something and not USD
_Purgatory_@reddit
Usa dollar. https://www.reddit.com/r/computers/comments/1t6q8tt/samsung_870_evo_sees_another_50_price_increase/
_Purgatory_@reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/computers/comments/1t6q8tt/samsung_870_evo_sees_another_50_price_increase/
USA prices and same in EU and UK. Also check price on the companies that make the drives, amazon prices are going up as they run out of old stock and restocking at the new prices.