Not sure when this sale ends, need to replace an SSD for my Nas and found this to be a good deal.
Warrantied TBW for 980: 300 TBW for 500GB model.* 5 years or TBW. has good reliability
No free delivery for WA & NT
Surcharges: 1.2% Card & PayPal, 2% AmEx
I appreciate you bringing it to my attention that several stores are selling this item at the same price, indicating that it's a standard price.
Not sure when this sale ends
Feels like the SSD sale just keeps going.
The market analysts are predicting that SSD prices will keep falling for the current quarter (2Q23), they'll stabilise in next quarter (3Q23), and start rising in following quarter (4Q23). Its all a matter of the quantity of SSD components that manufacturers have geared up to make, the amount currently in inventory, and how long it will take to reduce the quantity being manufactured and run down the inventory. No-one expected sales of new PCs to collapse as much as they did at the end of the COVID pandemic, and everyone didn't need another computer at home because the weren't WFHing any longer.
So Intel and AMD have more CPUs than they know what to do with, there's more RAM than there's a market for, and ditto SSDs.
The hobbyist market has about three months more of falling prices for components. The prices of the oldest slowest SSDs will fall most, because with the prices low, computer enthusiasts will choose newer faster models because they can afford them.
I think this can be used to upgrade a ssd on a 2014 MacBook Air (with an adapter for the port). Has anyone here done this sort of thing? Is it easy for a noob to do (following ifixit instructions)?
I think this needs firmware update, search Google
Yeah, Samsung SSDs, upgrade firmware right away is a good idea.
It's pretty much the same for all SSDs, upgrade firmware right away.
Also at many other stores, Scorptec, BPC etc.