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Sadly, the the 8 TB Samsung QVO SSDs jumped pretty badly in price since the beginning of this year. (At least here in Germany.)

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That was crazy, too—last year I saw them get down to the $350 range (almost bought a couple more at that price)... and yesterday when I went to check on them I noticed they're up to $530!

When I bought my drives a couple years ago they were around $400. I wish there were more options for 4-8 TB SSDs that went for capacity over performance. Honestly I would be happy with some larger lower-cost SSDs that ran at 100-200 MB/sec just for silent, low power capacity.

Agreed. A low bandwidth SSD with no rotational or seek latency would be a very good use case for home users and NAS storage devices. Add in the reduced power, heat, and noise benefits and it's even better.

Good luck finding a reasonably priced PCIe 3 drive with cache these days.

The only non-junk PCIe3 option that's even advertised here recently is the overpriced WD Red SN700.

Other than that it's just lemons and more power-hungry PCIe 4-5.

I still have better operational cost-performance from 5 year old drives compared to anything on the market today.

> The only non-junk PCIe3 option that's even advertised here recently is the overpriced WD Red SN700.

Those WD drives seem to have some real issues, at least with ZFS and btrfs. :(

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/discussions/14793

That's WD Black SN770 - targeted towards gamers. WD Red SN700 is prosumer/SMB NAS range. Lower performance and >2x the price.

Thanks. I tend to avoid WD so didn't know they were different. :)

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