The cost of a 1TB SSD drive just dropped below $98

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This seems like a straight up ad with affiliate links. The price of SSDs has been going down for months, and if anything they went up since the pandemic began. You can check the price history of popular ones on camelcamelcamel to confirm.

Cheap QLC (not the DRAM-less crap) was sub-$100 per TB last year (closer to $90&#x2F;TB). This is not the first time flash has crossed this particular arbitrary price threshold.

Meanwhile, high-end 1 TB drives -- e.g. Samsung 970 EVO, ADATA XPG SX8100&#x2F;SX8200 -- are if anything more expensive now than they were 6 months ago, ~175 EUR. At least where I live.

I&#x27;m thinking about putting an NVMe SSD in my Haswell-based desktop from 2013. The BIOS can&#x27;t boot from NVMe directly, but I should be able to install Clover EFI on a flash drive, and mount it to an internal USB header.<p>However, the idea is mildly ridiculous because I only have PCIe 2.0 x1 slots available (and one 3.0 x16 slot for the GPU), which is limited to 500 MB&#x2F;sec, compared to SATA-III at 600 MB&#x2F;sec.<p>Most NVMe drives support PCIe 3.0 x4, which is 3940MB&#x2F;s. It&#x27;d be nice if I could bond two of the x1 slots into an x2, but that would require exotic hardware and chipset support. A basic x1 -&gt; M.2 adapter is $5 on AliExpress, so I&#x27;m going to run at 500 MB&#x2F;sec for the heck of it.

Check out diskprices.com for a great resource that’s not just ads. I found out about it via HN originally and use it often when making purchases or suggesting purchases to others.

I expect to see a rise in SSD form factor home NAS boards &amp; enclosures. The pain-point right now is the PSU. If its built in it usually incurs the fan.

Amazing. I remember the original Zip drives (and Jaz drives after that) and the price point was somewhere around $200 for 100MB. Would be nice to see this sort of progress in quality and price in, say, healthcare.

That&#x27;s great, Apple can stop charging thousands of dollars for them.