Samsung 960 evo 500gb $199.99 (Microcenter)

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Neapolitan6th

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Just walked into Microcenter today and noticed their 960evo 500gb SSDs were priced at $199.99 which is $60 less than their price showed online. I picked one up for a laptop I plan to put it in.

Still expensive, but its cheaper than the $250 most other online outlets list.
 
Elkwood said:
Sigh oh how i wish a microcenter was within a few hours drive
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Ya need to move! Haha. Don't know what the hell id do without a microcenter newer me!

Buy hardware online again.. man I'd hate that after being spoilied.
 
kledar586 said:
ah man I just bought one of those last week
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I got one last week as well for this deal, I think on Wednesday. I was going to pick up a Plextor drive for $189 and the guy told me they had Evo drives for $199 so that was my choice to go with.
 
I think I saw those last time I was over there, but ultimately I chose to go with the 256GB instead (think it was ~$110 or so). Yeah the 500 is a better $/GB ratio, but I already had a 1TB SSD (an older type) and I figured that was good enough for most games. I'd only be using the NVME drive for faster boots and maybe one or two games at a time. These m2 NVME drives are currently still at much more expensive ratios than their 2.5" counterparts...
 
I swear the next time I move again, checking weather there is a microcenter nearby will be part of the criteria:(
 
StoleMyOwnCar said:
I think I saw those last time I was over there, but ultimately I chose to go with the 256GB instead (think it was ~$110 or so). Yeah the 500 is a better $/GB ratio, but I already had a 1TB SSD (an older type) and I figured that was good enough for most games. I'd only be using the NVME drive for faster boots and maybe one or two games at a time. These m2 NVME drives are currently still at much more expensive ratios than their 2.5" counterparts...
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They really aren't worth it for those purposes. Unless you're doing a lot of heavy I/O, a regular SATA3 drive will be virtually as fast to your perception. Of course, I understand the irony typing from a computer with a 960 Evo installed that I just argued I don't need ;).

Pretty good price for a new drive. It hits this price online occasionally.
 
Yeah, its just hard to throw a sata drive in a nvme slot. Silly reasoning, but I hate not taking advantage of motherboard features (its my weakness..probably why I stick to ITX and not ATX)
 
kirbyrj said:
They really aren't worth it for those purposes. Unless you're doing a lot of heavy I/O, a regular SATA3 drive will be virtually as fast to your perception. Of course, I understand the irony typing from a computer with a 960 Evo installed that I just argued I don't need ;).

Pretty good price for a new drive. It hits this price online occasionally.
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Actually, it is noticeably faster than my Crucial. Restarts are much faster, and any program that's installed on it opens pretty much instantly. In general the system feels much snappier, too. Now, I've seen fresh installs on an SSD and this isn't like that. It's actually perceivable. But you won't believe me, so who cares?
 
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