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Guru3D.com » News » Samsung lowers prices for 970 EVO and PRO SSD considerably

Samsung lowers prices for 970 EVO and PRO SSD considerably

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/07/2018 02:39 PM | source: | 30 comment(s)
Samsung lowers prices for 970 EVO and PRO SSD considerably

If you read our reviews on the new m2 970 EVO and 970 PRO SSD series, you will have noticed I mentioned in both reviews that I find pricing too high, really high even. Good news, Samsung has lowered its prices, at least in USD.

Both the 970 EVO and PRO SSDs (M2) are now listing lower in price as Anandtech spotted, Samsung's 970 EVO does (prices in USD):

Samsung 970 EVO (review here)

  • $109.99 for the 250 GB model = 44 cents per GB
  • $199 for 500 GB = 40 cents per GB
  • $399 for its 1 TB = 40 cents per GB
  • $799 for 2 TB = 40 cents per GB

Samsung 970 PRO (review here)

The 970 PRO I was complaining about the most, these now also are a notch cheaper, albeit I should not use the word cheap here.

  • $249.99 for the 512 GB = 49 cents per GB
  • $499.99 for 1024GB = 49 cents per GB

Depending on how you look at prices, that is up to roughly 25% less for the EVO series, and anything from 5 to 13% on the PRO models. We'll have to wait and see how this pans out in the EU and Asia pricing wise though. Both models start selling and will be available in good volume, starting today.







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Aekold
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#5544546 Posted on: 05/07/2018 04:53 PM
Lowering prices is always a good thing (for us consumers, anyway)! Especially on the pricier NVMe SSDs, which trend at roughly 2x the price of the SATA variety.

Do you think this was caused by lowering memory prices, poor demand for the old pricing model, or both?

EL1TE
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#5544553 Posted on: 05/07/2018 05:20 PM
1TB SSD still expensive these days, and as a gamer i still see barely any improvement in load times versus a standard SATA SSD like the 850 series.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/samsung-970-pro-m-2-512gb-nvme-ssd-review,12.html

If i was to buy a new SSD for gaming i'd still go with a 1TB SATA like the 850 EVO or MX500.

Fox2232
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#5544558 Posted on: 05/07/2018 05:54 PM
1TB SSD still expensive these days, and as a gamer i still see barely any improvement in load times versus a standard SATA SSD like the 850 series.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/samsung-970-pro-m-2-512gb-nvme-ssd-review,12.html

If i was to buy a new SSD for gaming i'd still go with a 1TB SATA like the 850 EVO or MX500.
I am eyeing M.2. With that in mind, Cheapest 500GB SATA3 SSD cost tiny bit more than cheapest M.2 500GB SSD with And they perform about same. Apparently that would be waste of bandwidth M.2 slot offers.
So, cheapest good upgrade in speed is Kingston A1000 w/ 1500/900MBps r/w costing 27% more than that cheapest 500GB 2.5'' SATA3 SSD. That's very reasonable.

And for that I think that in my situation:
128GB SSD for OS
240GB SSD for Games
500GB HDD for Games where loading speed is not needed
500GB HDD for Projects / Data
...
Getting 500GB M.2 SSD with at least 3 times higher read speeds with only 27% price premium is very good investment for cases where speed may be important for quality of life.
Same goes for 1TB M.2 where 1500/1000MBps r/w comes with only 29% premium over cheapest SATA3 1TB SSD.
(Fun part here is that while mentioned MX500 costs reasonably less than faster M.2... EVO 850/860 cost about same without delivering speed.)

heffeque
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#5544580 Posted on: 05/07/2018 08:00 PM
Getting 500GB M.2 SSD with at least 3 times higher read speeds with only 27% price premium is very good investment for cases where speed may be important for quality of life.
Same goes for 1TB M.2 where 1500/1000MBps r/w comes with only 29% premium over cheapest SATA3 1TB SSD.
(Fun part here is that while mentioned MX500 costs reasonably less than faster M.2... EVO 850/860 cost about same without delivering speed.)
I'd compare random read/write speeds, definitely not sequential speeds. There's barely no workload that actually uses sustained sequential reads XOR sustained sequential writes.

vbetts
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#5544582 Posted on: 05/07/2018 08:17 PM
Jesus I'm still rocking an 850 EVO, not even M2! I need to change that quickly.

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