• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      It’s like gas prices early in the pandemic, but not quite as bad.

      They grossly overproduced, sat on a stockpile that couldn’t sell which costs them a ton and had to sell them for nothing. There’s nowhere for the price to go but up.

      • 𝕽𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖙@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        I bought a WD Black 4TB gen4 nvme for just under $200 over the holidays.

        The listing says up to 7,300MB/s. I only have a gen3 SSD slot so I can’t verify that but it saturates the gen3 capabilities.

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        10 months ago

        It is so frustrating trying to buy a nvme ssd because they make it so unclear which models have DDR and which don’t. I tried to buy one recently to upgrade a family member’s computer and was wondering how a non technical person has any chance of finding something decent.

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        10 months ago

        MB/s

        Seq 1M Q8T1
        1Gb
        2838 Read 2255 Write
        4Gb
        1419 Read 2239 Write

        Random 4k
        44.89 Read 108.33 Write

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      10 months ago

      Seriously, a lot of weirdly negative comments here.

      Yeah, it’s not great that prices go up, but a few months ago was the lowest price for memory and storage we have ever seen in all of history. 40€/TB at the low end for SSDs. That’s absolutely insane. It was entirely expected for prices to rise a bit again.