2TB Samsung 850 Evo SSD $649.99

4 hour sale? It says $747.99 now.

$649.99 is the price newegg had these for a couple of days last week with a promo code. I bought mine the day before the promo code started so I paid $749.99 but newegg is going to credit me back the $75 difference.

EDIT: oops the price at Newegg was $674.99.
 
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The sad part is that I added the SSD to my cart and then after spending some time checking out pricing on other components (since PCPricePicker doesn't seem to report Amazon prices accurately) and then forgot to actually place the order before going to bed so I missed it.
 
Huh, didn't think it'd be that low that fast... I mean it lines up with the price per gig that it's smaller brethren are selling at, but still, it only just came out.

I've got two 1TB EVOs as of this week, but if this thing hits ~$500 next year I'll likely add one on my last SATA port... 2+2TB of SSD goodness (+ the 256GB SM951), mmmm. :D

I do wonder where the SATA market goes next... Those that want performance art a premium will start looking at PCI-E/M.2. I

mean, I know there's a few manufacturers joining Samsung with their own 3D/TLC NAND drives but I wonder how all that will reflect on pricing.
 
Lol I am regretting my purchase now. I finally gave in to the SSD hype but after 3 days of using it, I am not impressed. Other than much faster boot times and slightly quicker desktop usage, its no big deal. I kind of feel a bit sick having spent that much. Heck it is the most expensive pc part I have ever bought and has the least bit of noticeable impact to me.
 
Why'd you go for such a large one if it's your first SSD? Could've dipped your toe with something much more affordable, specially if you don't usually spend that much on any single component (I don't either, tho I've had half a dozen SSD now).

If your usage case is pretty basic (browser, office, etc) and/or you tend to leave apps open most of the time an SSD's impact can be greatly diminished, tho so can a lot of other things'.

For me the switch to SSDs was huge, starting with an 80GB X25-M and moving on up thru a few setups and Samsungs. Going back to systems without one is irritating as all heck. Try that after you've had it a bit, or just return it if you're that unhappy tho.
 
Impulse said:
Why'd you go for such a large one if it's your first SSD? Could've dipped your toe with something much more affordable, specially if you don't usually spend that much on any single component (I don't either, tho I've had half a dozen SSD now).

If your usage case is pretty basic (browser, office, etc) and/or you tend to leave apps open most of the time an SSD's impact can be greatly diminished, tho so can a lot of other things'.

For me the switch to SSDs was huge, starting with an 80GB X25-M and moving on up thru a few setups and Samsungs. Going back to systems without one is irritating as all heck. Try that after you've had it a bit, or just return it if you're that unhappy tho.
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Well the main reason was that I wanted to keep things simple and have Windows and all my games on the same drive. Considering I usually have well over 1 TB of games installed then I knew I needed a 2 TB. I do put all my porn on the old 2 TB Seagate SSHD though. :D
 
I wanted to keep things simple and have Windows and all my games on the same drive
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Booo. Always separate drives. OS/boot drive and separate drive for Steam/games installs. My OS drive is usually a 256GB SSD, though I might step up to a 500GB one next time around. Games SSD is 500GB now, maybe 1TB next time around. Then the rest of the data and media gets stored on a higher capacity traditional HDD.
 
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Booo. Always separate drives. OS/boot drive and separate drive for Steam/games installs. My OS drive is usually a 256GB SSD, though I might step up to a 500GB one next time around. Games SSD is 500GB now, maybe 1TB next time around. Then the rest of the data and media gets stored on a higher capacity traditional HDD.
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What is the point in having a separate SSD for the OS and a separate SSD for games? And like I said, I usually have over 1 TB of games installed so I was going with a 2 TB anyway.
 
yacoub35 said:
Booo. Always separate drives. OS/boot drive and separate drive for Steam/games installs. My OS drive is usually a 256GB SSD, though I might step up to a 500GB one next time around. Games SSD is 500GB now, maybe 1TB next time around. Then the rest of the data and media gets stored on a higher capacity traditional HDD.
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That's how I'd do it too... And if for some reason I only had one large drive (maybe it's faster than my older/smaller ones, whatever) I'd still partition it such that the OS & core apps are separate from games/data, makes backups so much easier IMO.

I went from an 80GB to a 128GB to 2x 128GB in RAID (2nd 830 was super cheap on clearance) to a 1TB... The former were OS drives and I'd occasionally move some games unto them for faster loading, the latter is currently partitioned off.

Going back to a 256GB (SM951) for the OS/apps on my Skylake build and leaving the larger/slower EVOs for games and some data. Might even be able to get away without HDDs at all in the desktop next year depending on prices and where my Lr catalog is at. :D
 
500 Evo is on sale at NE for $155 with promo code.
Lowest I've seen it yet.
 
Incredible. The trend just keeps going. Every year you get double the space for the same price.

When they catch up to HDD's in price/size ratio that's gonna be damn interesting when everyone starts rebuilding their storage servers.
 
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What is the point in having a separate SSD for the OS and a separate SSD for games? And like I said, I usually have over 1 TB of games installed so I was going with a 2 TB anyway.
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SSD have been around for MANY MANY years there are litterally 100s of threads in this forum, I suggest reading some... in fact you probably should have prior to buying a super expensive one and then complaining... eh?
 
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Lol I am regretting my purchase now. I finally gave in to the SSD hype but after 3 days of using it, I am not impressed. Other than much faster boot times and slightly quicker desktop usage, its no big deal. I kind of feel a bit sick having spent that much. Heck it is the most expensive pc part I have ever bought and has the least bit of noticeable impact to me.
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After using the SSD for a bit, go back to using your old HDD and let us know how that works out for you. :cool:
 
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Incredible. The trend just keeps going. Every year you get double the space for the same price.

When they catch up to HDD's in price/size ratio that's gonna be damn interesting when everyone starts rebuilding their storage servers.
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I'm not sure it's gone quite that fast (maybe every 2 years), but I do think at some point the price vs HDDs won't even matter to many, a lot of people aren't running 4TB or even 2TB drives in their desktops/laptops but would benefit from an SSD...

I was kinda surprised while looking at Costco's laptop selection the other day, I realize SSD still aren't the default choice for a cost sensitive system under a grand but they had NO laptops with SSD amongst a dozen $500-800 models (except for Surface Pro).

That just seems like a crying shame, didn't expect their selection to be that awful. Something like an ASUS UX305 would kill most of what they had, often for less $. I guess the average Costco consumer might still be looking for that TB # as a checklist thing.
 
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SSD have been around for MANY MANY years there are litterally 100s of threads in this forum, I suggest reading some... in fact you probably should have prior to buying a super expensive one and then complaining... eh?
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I have read plenty of threads and reviews about SSDs and not one time do I ever recall someone saying that you need to have have a separate SSD for the OS and completely separate SSD for games. Even in your sort of smart ass response, there was not mentioned a reason. And my only "complaining" is that it is not all that noticeable in daily use other than boot times which is sort of irrelevant since I dont even boot my pc everyday.
 
There's certainly no NEED to do it like that per se, many of us just find it a lot more convenient for various practical reasons from cost to ease of backups...

If you really don't notice a difference you probably don't use your PC for anything very intensive beyond gaming, which is fine, personally I think SSD are a little over hyped for gaming purposes...

Not every game's load time will benefit to the same degree and two cheap hard drives can often accomplish the same in the cases where loading is heavily sequential based...

SSD make a world of difference to me in mostly everything else I do with my PC tho. YMMV You do the Pepsi test yet and go back to the HDD? ;)
 
Nice. I guess ~$0.33/GB is still a limit on newer flash memory (like stacked and 3D V-NAND) SSDs.
 
The 1TB just dropped to $325 at Amazon, FWIW... Just bought it at Newegg the other day for like $7 more, heh.
 
That's only a little more expensive per GB than their 1 TB version, which I've seen as low as $310. :cool:
 
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