Price of ssd still dropping

I don't care about 2TB or even 1TB SSD prices. I install those large sized SSD's in less than 1% of my clients computers. What I care about is the 240GB and 500GB SSD's, and those prices haven't budged hardly at all in the last year.
 
500 GB is the new 240/250GB! :)

(I try to keep one of each 500 GB and 1 TB in stock only, skipping the 250 GB, as pricing seems like a ripoff at only 20% less money than the 500 GB, at least with the Crucial MX500 series..)
 
MDD1963 said:
500 GB is the new 240/250GB! :)

(I try to keep one of each 500 GB and 1 TB in stock only, skipping the 250 GB, as pricing seems like a ripoff at only 20% less money than the 500 GB, at least with the Crucial MX500 series..)
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Most of my clients have less than 100GB of data (many have as little as a few gigs). It's a waste of money to put in a 500GB SSD. I still stock 120GB drives, though I try to upsell the 240GB drives for $40 more. I only offer drives larger than 240GB to those that actually need them.
 
MDD1963 said:
500 GB is the new 240/250GB! :)
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While this is true, I sell 240-256gb SSD's way more than a 500gb. I have a single 120gb in stock and its the same one thats been hanging on the peg board for months and once it's sold, I'll not stock anymore. I sell 8 to 10 240gb SSD's a month and just a couple 500gb a month.

Although last month was a killer for 500gb for me. Sold 35 to one of my MSP clients as they wanted all their machines upgraded from spinners to SSD's and requested 500gb, who am I to argue?
 
256GB NVME are now like $45 and 1tb NVME are at $80 and external 1TB SSD are $87 and are still dropping.

Picked up a bunch of 480GB kingston SSD new in a box for $20 each.
 
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I think if anything they have gone up a bit lately
was going to order a Kinston 240 $35 cad but $6 shipping newegg.ca
got one from Amazon same price free shipping you could only order one

I think the price will come down drastically as they are like memory sticks anybody can make them
as opposed to a few companies that make spinners and all the engineering that's gone into them over 50 years
 
Went went through TONS of SSDs in the past year doing the Win10 upgrades.
Most of them were 500 giggers...since most of our clients used biz class workstations, so most of those had 500 gig spinners in 'em. Most of our upgrades were onsite so we used the Drive Goblin hardware appliance to clone the drives, and it cannot downsize...must clone to equal or larger. So...500 gig SSDs it was. Barely what...35 bucks more than a 250? Not worth worrying about any price diffy.....we do the 500 giggers for about 95 bucks a pop to the client (just cost of the drive) We stick with Crucial MX500 drives. Would accept Samsung or WD SSDs.
 
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