In 2017, I bought a 1TB 960 Evo for 466€. Now, in 2023 the 1TB 970 Evo Plus is 43€.

It’s incredible how much the prices have fallen and that’s how it should be. Sure, I bought the 960 close to launch but still the difference is staggering.

The 960 Evo still chugs along albeit it’s a new one because a few months after I bought it, I had to RMA it. I guess that’s what happens when you are an early adopter. I lost a few hours of work when the original 960 Evo decided to stop working but it also taught me to be more paranoia with backups.

mochi,

In 2021, I bought a Ryzen 5 3600 for $199. Today, it’s $82.00.

dunestorm,
@dunestorm@lemmy.world avatar

Pretty sure Apple still charges £300 😂

thatguy_ie,

It’s incredible how much the price of flash storage has fallen lately. I had to replace a 1tb 2.5’ drive lately and an SSD was €5 more than a mechanical drive.

Fonchote, (edited )

Just made a new build, 6 tb of Evo was less than $300. Prices are great at the moment

irkli,

It’s been this way continuously since computer memory was thought up.

Here’s a chart of memory price change since 1957

jcmit.net/mem2015.htm

nvm,

Even internal hard drives are falling in price every few months. A WD Red Pro 18 TB is cheaper than a 16TB two months ago. I guess the strategy is to wait until the last moment before you buy storage now.

DrManhattan,

It’s amazing seeing 2TB M.2 NVME drives being sold for less than what I bought my original 120GB SATA SSD for.

Trapping5341,

as the recent proud owner of a 1TB and a 2TB NVME drive I agree whole heartedly.

December 27, 2013 I bought a 250GB 840 EVO for $179.12 December 2, 2022 I bought a 2TB 970 EVO NVME for $166.41 December 5, 2022 I bought a 1TB 970 EVO NVME for $89.99

It’s bonkers and its makes my computer happy.

00Sixty7,

I plan on building a new desktop sometime around black friday. Here’s hoping we’ll get some great deals like this then, too?

thermal_shock,

Don’t wait for black Friday, get the parts in pieces as you find them on sale.

Black Friday is when companies dump subpar parts to low prices just to get rid of them. Don’t bank it all on that sale.

00Sixty7,

Good call, and good idea! Duly noted.

LeberechtReinhold,
@LeberechtReinhold@lemmy.world avatar

Set your build goals now (check !buildapc ) and use alerts/price trackers to see good deals. There are some good deals on Black Friday but many are bogus, its to better to check every now and then for deals.

QuazarOmega,

Amazing to see!
By this point do USB sticks make sense anymore as opposed to a super fast SSD inside an enclosure? It seems like the former hasn’t seen any technical progress in years either

NiTRo_SvK,

I usually have one USB stick tied to my keys, just in case. I can’t imagine carrying an enclosed SSD everywhere with me.

QuazarOmega,

They can be failry small though, no? The NVME form factor allows for something that is maybe two times longer than a usual USB stick, so it’s still reasonably small and a tad harder to lose

CifrareVerba,

This is why I have a USB Hub and MicroSD cards for drives that aren’t OS related.

I have

  • 256GB Mac
  • 256GB “Work In Progress” microSD Card (torrents, files I am working on, encoding, etc.)
  • 2 1TB MicroSD Cards for DRM Purchases (iTunes and Apple TV) + Non DRM content (content I ripped and encoded to convert to digital and podcasts, audio, video, etc.)

I just really like the portability of SD Cards and USB sticks.

Reliant1087,

I’ve had SD cards fail catastrophically though, unlike ssds and hdds.

CifrareVerba,

Your experience isn’t wrong, it is more likely to happen, however, if you prioritize portability, SD Cards and USBs are great for that and inconspicuous if you go somewhere public or need to share something with someone at school without drawing too much attention.

vladmech,

I’m picking up a 2TB 980 Pro for $99 on Prime Day today, it’s ridiculous and wild.

nahida,

That costs as much as my 840 EVO (120 GB) did in 2014.

EchoCranium,

Ended up ordering 2 of those myself. For the price, couldn’t pass it up. Going to replace the 1Tb ssd’s I have now, and turn the old ones into external storage. All my Steam games are taking up too much space.

ItsWizardTime,

This is how hardware should work! Overtime what was bleeding edge is now the norm and as such should be priced accordingly… Looking at you Nvidia

LeberechtReinhold,
@LeberechtReinhold@lemmy.world avatar

nVidia GPUs:

970GTX was 329$ in 2014

1070GTX was 379$ in 2016

2070RTX was 499$ in 2018

3070RTX was 499$ in 2020

4070RTX is 599$ in 2023

Probably, the 5070 in 2025-6 will be 650-700.

dangblingus,

Lol a 4070 in Canada is $1200.

NothingButTheTruthy,

Yeah, but Canadian dollars?

dangblingus,

Well yeah, but the exchange rate isn’t that bad. Our prices are just astronomical.

MetaCubed,

Direct conversion for $599 USD to Canadian dollars works out to about $800. NVIDIA has just decided that they can get more than that out of us with regional pricing

LeberechtReinhold,
@LeberechtReinhold@lemmy.world avatar

I mean, in europe they are more expensive, 4070RTX was about 700€ (770$). Different currencies and different taxes. And greed.

w00,

Nope. FE was 650€ at launch +shipping

LightDelaBlue,
@LightDelaBlue@lemmy.world avatar

its hurt i pay back in time a gtx titan x … it was 1000€. for the top of the top. and today the top line is … way fuking more…

Rai,

Then ya got the 8800GTX in 2006, with a MSRP at a cool FIVE HUNDRED NINETY NINE US DOLLARS, or 900USD in now-money.

Granted, that was an outlier at the time, but still!

I opted for 2x7900GT cards in SLI in my first self-built monster machine, for Crysis. 330USD each. That thing was a monster. Ran Crysis at 40-50FPS!

…bought an Athlon 64x2 4400+ for some 460USD… it dropped to like 200 just a month or so later when Intel’s Core series was a smash hit.

DrManhattan,

I bought the 8800GTX because it was the first DX10 compatible GPU available, and that thing was an amazing powerhouse. No need to fiddle with SLI profiles, just raw graphical power.

Rai,

SLI was a nightmare!

Raxiel,

In 2016 I bought a 512gb 950pro for £200, not only is it still my boot drive it still has the same windows 10 installation, even though it’s on a completely different motherboard.

Since that new motherboard has three more M.2 slots than the 2016 platform, I just picked up one of the 970 evos in the OP for £43. It can fill in for my current SATA SSD steam cache, which can in turn take the place of my one remaining HDD and I’ll be free of spinning iron.

Although… Now I look at it, the 2tb version is less than twice the price…

Raxiel,

Oh, and that 2tb of iron was £87 over ten years ago

mr_yuk,

It’s about time. SSD prices stagnated for years!

Here are my purchases over the past years:

  • 2015 - Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SATA - $164
  • 2016 - Samsung 850 EVO 500GB M.2 SATA - $168
  • 2016 - Samsung 850 EVO 1TB M.2 SATA - $262
  • 2017 - Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SATA - $198 ($30 more than 2 yrs prior)
  • 2019 - Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SATA - $160 (finally a decent price on 1TB even though it was SATA)
  • 2020 - Samsung 870 EVO+ 2TB NVME - $270
  • 2022 - Samsung 870 EVO+ 2TB NVME - $204
  • 2022 - Samsung 870 EVO 4TB SATA - $396

Today the Samsung 970 EVO+ NVME 2TB is $109. The 870 EVO 4TB SATA is $170. Each about half the price as one year ago.

johnnixon,

I ordered a 870 EVO 4TB since all the time spent on self hosted has been eating up my NAS storage.

mr_yuk,

The 870 QVO 8TB is on for $320 today!

www.amazon.com/dp/B089C3TZL9

Bobert,

$109 for an 840 EVO 250 GB in November 2014. Still rocking it to this day. Was absolutely thrilled to get it then. People don’t fully grasp the paradigm shift that SSDs brought in terms of boot times. For practically the first time in personal computing the average user had a quantifiable metric to judge a PC’s speed. It’s arguably the largest leap in terms of technology advancement to speed advancement in PCs.

squozenode,

Which is exactly why I dislike the fact that nvme happened.

The world had finally standardized on one physical size of hard drive, 2.5 inch sata. You could tell your technophobic aunt to just go buy one of these and it’ll work.

Bobert,

I love nvme, personally. On the board is always better, and one screw is even easier than four. Because of nvme the only thing holding back SFF in the average use case is power supplies, and bricked cords are decent enough in the meantime.

trust_yourself,

My only gripe with the NVME screws is that they are board provided, and thus, if you lose it, it is a sad day, they are not standard, and I’ve got one board that doesn’t match up with anything.

dangblingus,

Not only that, even though NVME is pretty standard these days, it’s a crapshoot whether or not the mobo you buy will even come with the standoff/screws. One of the biggest rollout fails in modern tech history.

dtrain,

I, for one, am happy that technological innovation isn’t tethered to Auntie Agnes ability to comprehend.

ramblechat,

I had a 2010 Macbook Pro that I was about to throw away a couple of years ago because it was unusable - beach ball of death constantly. I bought a 500GB SSD for around $70 AUD, went on YouTube and about an hour later booted up; it was like a new laptop. I eventually chucked it earlier this year because the battery had it and I didn’t want to spend any more on it.

capt_wolf,
@capt_wolf@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll be making the leap to SSD in the near future. I picked up a couple m.2s a couple months ago and just haven’t gotten around to adding them. Well, turns out it’ll just be one because adding the second nukes all but 2 of my SATA ports and my 4x pcie apparently… At least the second one won’t go to waste in my laptop.

tallwookie,
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