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Other SSD Prices for our older Macs...WTF!!!!
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Populus
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I “purchased” a Sandisk-WD NVMe M2 2TB SSD in December for 170€ on Amazon. They delayed the delivery to February 3rd. While waiting for the SSD to be delivered, I’ve seen how the price of such drive has creeped up to 489€.
Obviously, February 3rd came and they sent me an email saying that they had to delay the delivery to this week… will I ever receive the NVMe that I purchased for one third of the current price? I’m not sure…
I suspected that RAM price increases were going to impact SSDs as well… and tried to move fast to have my 2230 NVMe. Now, recognized brand NVMe are mostly out of stock, and the only ones available are Chinese brands and QLC **** models, for quite an expensive price.
We’ll see if this madness ends as soon as possible, but I’m not positive about that…
Obviously, February 3rd came and they sent me an email saying that they had to delay the delivery to this week… will I ever receive the NVMe that I purchased for one third of the current price? I’m not sure…
I suspected that RAM price increases were going to impact SSDs as well… and tried to move fast to have my 2230 NVMe. Now, recognized brand NVMe are mostly out of stock, and the only ones available are Chinese brands and QLC **** models, for quite an expensive price.
We’ll see if this madness ends as soon as possible, but I’m not positive about that…
Yeah except after black Friday that drive was $80. 150GBP is almost $205….not a deal at all.Search for other brands if they are too expensive….
Samsung 860 EVO £150
Samsung 860 EVO 1TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-76E1T0B/AM)
Samsung 860 EVO MZ-76E1T0B/AM 1 TB 2.5 Internal Solid State Drive - SATA - 550 MB/s Maximum Read Transfer Rate - 520 MB/s Maximum Write Transfer Rate - 256-bit Encryption StandardCondition: This item is brand new unopened and sealed in its original factory box.www.amazon.co.uk
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OWC is also overpriced anyway, much cheaper options exist for the same performance.
A Hobo
macrumors 6502
This is how I felt as well, and immediately went to reply, yes things have increased in prices, but to go from 129, to 399 and having really no reason for it isn't okay. But it is OWC who we're talking about.
I still remember them trying to charge over 100 quid for a SSD enclosure.
Well there are plenty of reasons, this largely isn't a case of manufactures upping their price just cuz YOLO
MarkC426
macrumors 601
How is 150 ~ 205…… 🤪
It’s 25% less.
I paid £130 for the same drive in 2020
The 860 EVO is an old model (but more suited to cMP than 870/QVO), so generally supplies will be low due to it’s age.
SpecFoto
macrumors regular
Here is a real world example of whats happened to prices in a little over a year: In Nov 2024 to Jan 2025 I bought 3 @ 8TB each WD850X Black NVMe's to become my 8TB main external startup drive and 16TB RAID external storage drive for my M2 Mac Studio Max. Bought these at B&H for $529 each.
Today the same NVMe is $2,239 each at B&H. Total cost $1,587 then vs $6,717 now.
Also bought at B&H 2@ 8TB each Samsung 870 2.5" Sata III SSD's for a 16TB RAID backup that cost $549 each. These now, if you can find them, are $1,199 each. Not as outrageous of a price increase, but still way more than the 30% import duty.
Would like to have 3 more 8TB NVMe's for 2nd backup in a 4 bay external NVMe 24TB enclosure. But due to the outrageous cost, decided to go old school and get 2 HDD @ 12TB in a RAID box instead. HDD cost was only $540, or 8%, vs the cost 24TB of NVM'e now. It's backup speed really does not matter as I run overnight when I backup.
Today the same NVMe is $2,239 each at B&H. Total cost $1,587 then vs $6,717 now.
Also bought at B&H 2@ 8TB each Samsung 870 2.5" Sata III SSD's for a 16TB RAID backup that cost $549 each. These now, if you can find them, are $1,199 each. Not as outrageous of a price increase, but still way more than the 30% import duty.
Would like to have 3 more 8TB NVMe's for 2nd backup in a 4 bay external NVMe 24TB enclosure. But due to the outrageous cost, decided to go old school and get 2 HDD @ 12TB in a RAID box instead. HDD cost was only $540, or 8%, vs the cost 24TB of NVM'e now. It's backup speed really does not matter as I run overnight when I backup.
Its been all over the news that memory pricing has skyrocketed due to the AI push. This is demand pressure that is separate from any of the outside forces such as tariffs, inflation etc (all of which are contributing as well).
Yr Blues
macrumors 68040
People lived perfectly fine 3 years ago without AI. Now it's being pushed to take over jobs, teach kids how not to think for themselves, and cause tech prices to moon. "They" love that.
MacInTO
macrumors 68000
AI is the next level of sloth. Building on your previous quote, "You will know nothing and like it."
There's a lot of demand pricing going on, and it definitely pays to check regularly for fluctuations. I wanted to buy an extra Samsung T7 SSD for offsite backups and secondary storage, but the price for the 1TB drive was more than I paid for a 2TB last summer. And the 2TB ones were well over 100% more than that purchase. I kept prodding my Amazon wish list every few days though, and suddenly saw the 2TB one show up at a relatively normal price. Ordered it, with delivery a week off instead of next day, saw the price double again within 24 hours, and sweated it all the way to delivery that it was going to go missing. It actually arrived 2 days before predicted delivery, so I'm assuming that they were waiting for new stock to arrive in the UK, and that the stock in question sold out in less than a day.
Everywhere seems to be price matching too, which only makes it worse.
Everywhere seems to be price matching too, which only makes it worse.
People lived perfectly fine without cars 140 years ago too, and back then everyone said the advent of the automobile would result in the loss of jobs, but we are doing just fine. AI will play out the exact same way. It might change what we do, but it's not going to change our ability to do something. And now look how hard it is to find a good walkable community! (In the US at least). This false panic will always follow a technical revolution, because while Henry Ford stood to make a lot of money from cars, I'm sure there were some horseshoe barons that did their best to smear the industry and save their own ass (and empire) instead of adapting with the time.
The comparison shown shows 2TB going from ~$230 to ~$650. That is almost a triple the cost increase in memory cost, where we previously have watched memory costs constantly decrease for 40+ years. Today's increases are actually quite a big deal.
I wonder how much is due to inefficiencies consequent to tariff threats by the USA and how much is due to AI-based demand increases.
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Right, prices are always going to end up trending upwards over time. The big deal of this all is the incredibly exponential rate at which prices have gone up in even just the past two years.
I just paid $700 for 64GB of PC RAM, and it was the cheapest available. That would have cost $200 2 years ago...
I bought a 2TB NVMe for my Mac Mini M4 in an Amazon deal for £75 just before the first grumblings about a chip shortage started making the rounds. I have a few spare 240GB SATA SSD drives just in case so I think I shall see the AI boom and bust out fine. My brother had been starting to put a new PC box together. Now the RAM and storage chip shortage has put that on ice for the foreseeable future. Sucks for everyone else in the same position. I don't envy anyone trying to negotiate their way around the glut of dumped AI component parts on the market once the likes of OpenAI etc start laying off staff. It's going to be the ex-crypto minefield all over again.
staypuftforums
macrumors 6502a
You couldn't be more wrong.
SSD are very much the exception. They have skyrocketed in price over the past year.
It's weird that everyone is just forgetting that for years basically up until the pandemic upended supply chains, these components were racing to the bottom of the pricing barrel.
katbel
macrumors 601
Last week I was looking for another external SSD and I was shocked by the prices going up so much and couldn’t understand why. Last one we bought was a year ago, half the price of what they are asking today, everywhere.
So I recover an older one we have and used it. One more reason to abhor AI, and joining others in the hope to see this bubble burst.
I'm not sure that quite exists, it has more to do with how the drive is used rather then like a set timeframe. Most SMART systems will just tell you if the drive is good or bad, but there isn't much granularity outside of that