Standard price jacking and RMA caveats about Kai Seng Computers (shallothead / Shopping Express / Futu Online / gg.tech365) apply
MZ-77Q8T0BW
2.5 inch SATA III, Read up to 560MB/s, Write up to 530MB/s, IOPS R/W up to 98/88K, Endurance 2880 TBW, 4bit MLC (QLC), 8GB LPDDR4 DRAM Cache
3 Year/s Warranty
Extra 5% off with auto-applied code SHTSAVE5 (Max $200 off) — buyer cannot opt-out of this code. Prices adjusted for this discount.
I'm in a similar boat. Need a high capacity 2.5" SSD for my Jellyfin Server (Dell Optiplex), but too expensive haha.
I got one of these second hand with low use for about 500 a year ago, wonder if you can find anything similar used or refurb
"…the cheapskate in me cannot accept any less of a deal…"
I'm in the exact same boat. I bought the deal earlier that day but cancelled it (successfully) when I saw the $229 deal. A friend turned up for a coffee and I completely forgot abot the SSD! Now I'm back where I started and can't buy it for a penny more than that $229 deal.
I would love to replace my 4x 4TB raid 6 disks with 3x 8tb raid 5 ssds.
but RBA boss killed off that Idea.
Too little drop too late. SSD prices have cratered, and yes, this is the cheapest 8TB SSD, but 4TB prices have also recently halved over the last few months— this should be $500 or less for this drive before this is a decent price. We have had 2TB NVME QLC for $109, so if it wasn't for the size premium, 8TB of slow SATA QLC (where unlike NVME there is no space limitation requiring high density flash chips…) should be easy to sell for ~$440.
This was $800 in 2021 with $150 of steam credit — but prices went up after that and have been hovering around $900-$950. Had this had been $750 at any point last year I would have thought it a good deal and grabbed it — how fast things change!
No doubt cheaper large SSD's are just around the corner.
I mean, who wouldn't want a Ps4 🏴☠️🦜 with an 8TB SSD? But let's be real, the price tag is a bit steep at this point. Maybe in the future when prices come down, it'll be worth the investment.
8tb $200 waiting room
Would love to buy a 8tb ssd and be done with it but still way too $$$ for my use, i've pysched myself up to buy 4tb of SSD for my first dedicated plex server (a 2018 HP SFF) and am shocked to see gen 4 NVMEs' being the cheaper option vs sata (PNY NVME 4TB @ $229, now back up to $289), i would have thought sata would be much cheaper than NVME but cheapest i can find is low $300s for 4tb sata.
now that ive seen the $229 PNY deal, the cheapskate in me cannot accept any less of a deal 😂