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Lexar NM790 4TB SSD, M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4x4 NVMe $341 Delivered @ Amazon AU

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Dollar Dreamer on 07/03/2025 - 15:21 amazon.com.au (1280 clicks)
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Because.

Cheap.

7400MB/s Read, 6500MB/s Write

For people that have banked 10% off Amazon Giftcards from late last year, it comes to ~$307.00. Nice.

No, we won't get 2023 prices ever again. The manufacturers have crunched the numbers on demand and desperation levels and just like Toyota, reduced the manufacturing capacity to start charging more money per unit instead of making more units and lower prices.

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    • Dollar Dreamer on 07/03/2025 - 15:25

      Including postage?

    • cloudie9 on 07/03/2025 - 15:38
      +2

      If you have purchased Amazon GC at 10%, this translates a better deal…

      • Dollar Dreamer on 07/03/2025 - 16:23
        +1

        Yup. I paid $307 only with 10% discount on Amazon GC..

        • WhyAmICommenting on 07/03/2025 - 17:44

          10% where?

          • mantra on 07/03/2025 - 18:23
            +3

            @WhyAmICommenting: this deal from November 2024

            many stocked up because maximum order value of $2,500 was per transaction

            • WhyAmICommenting on 07/03/2025 - 19:23
              +1

              @mantra: Ah yeah in think I only got $1k or so

              • marshmall0w2 on 07/03/2025 - 20:09
                +1

                @WhyAmICommenting: They ran it for 3 days since a lot of people couldn't buy them on the first day due to banks flagging their payment portal. I bought the max 2500 per day for 3 days lmao

                • outlander on 07/03/2025 - 22:26
                  +1

                  @marshmall0w2: Sheesh, really?

                  I bought $500 worth and it took ages to get rid of them, because anything I find on amazon is almost always cheaper somewhere else.
                  I originally got them thinking computer parts, but then ebay had a 20% off sale

                  • parad0x on 08/03/2025 - 01:12
                    +1

                    @outlander: eBay 20OFF sales equate to ~retail price anyway after the prices have been jacked up by the store.

          • Dollar Dreamer on 07/03/2025 - 20:17

            @WhyAmICommenting: I loaded up $2000 late last year when the 10% Amazon GC hit. I do it once every year. Makes everything I buy on Amazon basically 10% off on top of any sale price for the next 12-18 months depending on how many 2 min noodles I buy on special.

  • azukay on 07/03/2025 - 15:25
    +10

    It's 319 at PCCG, plus 15 shipping.

  • mudguppy1 on 07/03/2025 - 15:57

    metro again

  • Meteor Anarcom on 07/03/2025 - 16:24
    +3

    not cheap

    • cloudie9 on 07/03/2025 - 16:26
      +3

      Looking around, this is the standard pricing. Hopefully it will go down but if you look at the camelcamelcamel for majority of the SSDs out there, it has been an upward trend.

  • Namidairo on 07/03/2025 - 18:25

    What does Gaius Baltar Tony Foster have to say about this?

  • jianh on 07/03/2025 - 20:06

    Damn this thing is 295 just last year, and 275 about 2 years ago

  • hadronox on 07/03/2025 - 20:45

    Any recommendations for an external M.2 Nvme Ssd Enclosure?

  • treater on 07/03/2025 - 21:27

    Still hodling for the 8tb…

  • parad0x on 08/03/2025 - 01:00
    -1

    @Dollar Dreamer

    reduced the manufacturing capacity to start charging more money per unit instead of making more units.

    And this based on what exactly?

    If you as a consumer think that you have ANY impact on the economics of x86 hardware, then you have been terribly mistaken. I also don't see less flash being produced in vendor demand era of: More. Faster. Often.

    We've see what datacentres across the world prepping for Ai did to flash and if frequency ie. Inevitably it frequency of production decreases then the amplitude will most definitely make up for it, because the demand for SSDs is not reducing in any market segment.

    We'll see M. 2NVMe head towards it form-factor maxim, and probably achieve. U2/U3 will do as it does, under the radar and generally catering only to the enterprise.

    Prices will never be the same, now prepare for capacity to never be the same again. Out go the old. In come.the new

    • parad0x on 08/03/2025 - 02:17
      +1

      @Dollar Dreamer I also don't think the manufacturers are smelting anything.

    • Dollar Dreamer on 08/03/2025 - 02:41

      @paradox 'And this based on what exactly?'

      Bing Search and Chat GPT free version.

      • parad0x on 08/03/2025 - 06:25

        Aha, that makes that clearer…

        And along the with it the realisation that hole tool with which to justify oneself - not speaking directly of you but all the misguided sheep citing AI as fact 🙄

        • netsurfer on 08/03/2025 - 11:53
          -1

          Lexar ANZ rep mentioned NAND flash makers would be reducing capacity back in late 2023.

          2023-12-29: Market Anticipates a 50% Price Surge for NAND Flash in Short-Term

          The industry indicates that due to the lower profitability of NAND Flash compared to DRAM, international giants are actively reducing NAND Flash production.

          • Dollar Dreamer on 08/03/2025 - 13:57

            @netsurfer: Marketing grade A. It worked, on you.

            • netsurfer on 08/03/2025 - 17:53

              @Dollar Dreamer: Bought the 4TB in 2023 for $255 and that was before all those news on reduced production capacity. The $255 purchase was FOMO, likewise for 1TB Samsung 990 Pro at $59.99 (also FOMO purchase). At the moment, I cannot + vote this deal (doesn't feel right telling people to pay more for this SSD than what I paid for).

              After Lexar ANZ rep informed people about the 'bad news', multiple deals still came up soon after, including a clearance deal on Lexar NM790 SSDs (so $255 was technically not the cheapest ever, but there weren't many at lowest clearance price). When I asked the rep for an explanation (why the retailer was able to offer another discount), the rep was not happy that retailer sold NM790s basically at close to cost price (instead of adding in the usual margin). Also, YMTC did stockpile heaps of NAND chips before end of 2023, yet YMTC wanted to get the same margin like the other NAND flash makers.

      • parad0x on 08/03/2025 - 06:48

        @Dollar Dreamer
        . Whilst it's an item of consideration, I couldn't it to be the whole, nor the end result, so. I. Checked for myself
        "Overall Outlook: The near future for flash memory manufacturers is likely to be dynamic and challenging, but ultimately positive in terms of demand growth. The fundamental drivers of data growth and the increasing reliance on flash memory in key markets are very strong. However, manufacturers will need to navigate intense competition, pricing pressure, geopolitical risks, and technological complexities to remain profitable and successful."

  • Devaust on 08/03/2025 - 05:26

    Can validate this SSD is the best I have. I have this installed into one of my laptops legion pro 7i (13900hx/4090). I also use Samsung, Micron & Lexar is great value for money comparatively

  • AssociatedLexar ANZ Chris @ Lexar on 09/03/2025 - 17:59
    +9

    So… I hate to be the bearer of bad news again, but instead of a price drop, we’re looking at another major price increase for TLC.

    I know that, just like two years ago when I mentioned a price hike, some people accused me of using scare tactics. But once again, if you're in the market for an SSD, buy whichever brand you prefer—whether it's Lexar, Samsung, WD, Kingston, or anyone else. This isn't about pushing a specific brand; it's just the reality of the market.

    It’s not that wafer manufacturers are deliberately cutting production, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter—the demand is set to far exceed supply in 2025 and beyond.

    Explaining the full picture would take a while, but in short, many wafer makers initially thought they could take short-term losses to gain market share, expecting to become the SSD equivalent of WD and Seagate in the HDD era. However, that quick win never materialized, and the SSD pricing war dragged on much longer than anticipated.

    The strategy of losing money to dominate the market didn’t work as planned, and now wafer manufacturers want to recover their investments—every dollar they poured in.

    I know I previously said prices might drop again in 2025, based on nearly 20 years of industry experience. But I was wrong—SSD prices are now behaving like egg prices at Coles.

    That said, as long as I’m at Lexar, I’ll keep working to make great deals happen. Let me know what you need! 😃

    • Dollar Dreamer on 09/03/2025 - 20:05

      Bro, this was insightful. Any possibility of even a lower price than it's at on Amazon stock? As a flash 1 day sale with an Ozbargain code? Yes, greed is good lol.

      • AssociatedLexar ANZ Chris @ Lexar on 10/03/2025 - 08:03
        +1

        it doesn't work that way, and it will create a lot more trouble than sales.
        I am still figuring out what to do at this stage, nothing I can share with Ozbargainers yet.
        but I do have solid info on price increase.
        it will slowly showing up in the market like last time.
        At current quarter I believe there will still be deals happenning because a lot of exisiting stock from all brands are probably last year's stock

        • parad0x on 12/03/2025 - 09:19

          He's a genuine fortune teller. Nobody saw that coming AT ALL! Basic economics says it will return to its baseline prior to the bull rush, and as capacities increase the lower speed and capacity will become marginally cheaper.

          There's nothing 'inside-info" about that.. Inside info is what are vendors are planning to do as the limits of M.2 FF are reached. Back M2 R&D, adopt U3 FF or new platform for the future?

    • Butt Scratcher on 10/03/2025 - 17:04

      Hi Chris, i appreciate your insight.

      Sorry if this is a little bit off topic, but do you know if the Lexar nq790 is TLC or QLC?

      There doesnt seem to be many reviews on it, and ive seen a lot of conflicting reports on it

      • AssociatedLexar ANZ Chris @ Lexar on 10/03/2025 - 20:04
        +1

        Hi buddy"

        All NMs are TLC, all NQs are QLC.
        NQ790 is QLC

    • netsurfer on 11/03/2025 - 20:15

      At the moment, we are seeing deals from competitors beating current NM790 prices from time to time. Some with same controller and NAND flash combo. Another one with Phison E27 based setup. 1TB and 2TB SSDs seems to be quite competitive still.

      NM790 2023 prices here were great. Was originally hoping NQ790 would be here before the SSD price rise.

      Can't see the increase in SSD demand in consumer space in the short term. There is nothing exciting in the consumer SSD space currently. How long can SSD makers hold off releasing more Phison E27/E29 based SSDs? Toshiba has a new NAND flash designed to lower cost.

      Right now, NQ790 pricing is a joke. Stores are selling NM790 2TB cheaper than NQ790 2TB.

  • AssociatedLexar ANZ Chris @ Lexar on 09/03/2025 - 18:01
    +1

    And please buy Lexar, my graphics card almost exploded when running monster hunter wild at max, I need those 4tb money

    • Dollar Dreamer on 09/03/2025 - 20:12
      +1

      Drop it to $299 on Amazon stock (with a discount code for all Ozbargainers) and I will buy 2 more to fund your graphics card teeheehee.

      • AssociatedLexar ANZ Chris @ Lexar on 10/03/2025 - 08:05
        +1

        with that kind of money I can shower myself with RTX5090.
        299 will be pretty hard moving forward.
        However you can tell from Ozbargin history, during every price period, I always bring out some crazy deals

        • venomx2 on 12/03/2025 - 08:00

          Any details on a deal soon so you can get that RTX5900?

          • Dollar Dreamer on 12/03/2025 - 17:15

            @venomx2: I don't think he will release the news here hehehehe.

          • AssociatedLexar ANZ Chris @ Lexar on 13/03/2025 - 18:33

            @venomx2: In April first thing I'm going to do is to establish AU social media and get an agent to run it so I have a place to talk to all of you.
            At moment I don't have anything planned, and we have a lot of new stuff launching at the moment, as you know we don't just sell SSDs, we have some metal SD cards and some other cool stuff coming out this quarter.

            But what I have in mind is to run some aggressive promo on Gen5 2&4tb, so people who just bought new cpu new gpu and ready to build new pcs have a chance to get our gen 5 SSD instead of a gen 4.
            This is just a thought…I have nothing solid on this one yet, so don't quote me on this.

            • venomx2 on 13/03/2025 - 18:43

              @Lexar ANZ Chris: A deal on Lexar NM790 4TB SSD would be nice but if you can do similar price on a Gen 5 similar price to Gen 4 I don't think people would complain.

              • AssociatedLexar ANZ Chris @ Lexar on 16/03/2025 - 16:00

                @venomx2: people would always want 299 ish pricing, but with next upcoming stock it gets impossible, throwing same amount of funding on 4tb gen4 while people have super low expectations is not worth the effort. You can see still many quoting the 2023 pricing.
                I think it's time to move on.
                when all market price went up, I will then do something about gen5, make gen5 price similar to highend gen 4 brands, probably works better.
                again, it is just my thought process, I might go back do gen4 4tb if retailers feel the same way as you.
                But at the moment I am more leanning towards gen5

                • Dollar Dreamer on 01/04/2025 - 02:52

                  @Lexar ANZ Chris: 2 week update? Teeheehee.

                  • AssociatedLexar ANZ Chris @ Lexar on 02/04/2025 - 18:23
                    +1

                    @Dollar Dreamer: Hi Dollar Dreamer:

                    Due to the price increase and shortages, I havent even have stock arrived Australia yet.
                    Currently no matter what you see in the retail shops.
                    on Distributor side, we are completely out.
                    May be there are stock in retail, however if someone pops out from nowhere and wants 10,000 SSDs, I most likely going to miss the opportunity.
                    Because we are out of stock at the moment.
                    But orders has been placed, shipping is in progress, by the time stock arrive it's probably around mid-April.
                    And by then I will run few Easter promo probably.
                    That's the update I have for you.
                    I am currently still tidying up last quarter, and also working with NR to open up new opportunites, I havent get around to details on what deals I run.
                    so all I can say is I am going to run a promo, but I havent planned details yet.
                    around mid-late April you will see deals poping out on Ozbargain for sure.

                • treater on 04/04/2025 - 05:38

                  @Lexar ANZ Chris: Rip never got to see an 8tb sale.

                  Also any plans to stock Lexar play pro SD express cards? Can only find them overseas

                  • AssociatedLexar ANZ Chris @ Lexar on 07/04/2025 - 22:49
                    +1

                    @treater: Yes, most of the brands you see will be made by longsys anyways

                    I will bring the bigger capacities

                    • treater on 09/04/2025 - 05:37

                      @Lexar ANZ Chris: Kk.

                      Just picked up 2x sn850x 8tb for $930 each… I guess that's the last hurrah before prices increase

                    • Donkeyx on 10/04/2025 - 22:57

                      @Lexar ANZ Chris: Hijacking this thread to ask, do you know how tariffs will impact us?
                      Will Australia get cheaper stuff to avoid USA? or too early to know?

                      • AssociatedLexar ANZ Chris @ Lexar on 11/04/2025 - 12:43

                        @Donkeyx: The short answer is, no.

                        Tariff does not just block selling of Chinese made SSD in US, in fact, many companies have facilities in Brazil and other south america countries, selling to USA will be complicated, but not impossible.
                        But Tariff will destory the supply chain, wafer will not be sold to Chinese brands that makes consumer storage products.
                        also the packaging materials, transportation…a product needs hundred of things, now with tariff, many of the key ingredients might not available anymore.
                        Supply chain that comapnies spent decades to build are getting destoryed, making production very difficult.
                        The first thing you will see is either complete shortage, or constant lack of stock. (long ETAs)
                        If the shortage happened too often in Australia, then someone who have stock on hand is going to lift up price instead of lowering it.
                        plus, if our dollar keeps dropping like this. Everything will eventually get a lot more expensive due to bad rates.

                        I am not that political, but this trade war won't benefit Australians from what I can see.

                        • Donkeyx on 11/04/2025 - 23:23

                          @Lexar ANZ Chris: Thank you

                        • Dollar Dreamer on 16/04/2025 - 17:50

                          @Lexar ANZ Chris: We were advised to keep eyes peeled for mid April (Easter holiday) for major discounts on 4TB NM790's hehehehe. Any feedback? Or has the Trump Tariff put a hold on that?

  • motion2082 on 18/03/2025 - 12:45

    Dammit missed this one

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