Is 1 TB SSD likely to be cheaper than this sale price next year?

I can get a 1 TB Samsung 860 EVO on sale for $188 CAD right now, which is about $143 USD.

Is that a good price, or am I better off waiting until sometime next year? I don't desperately need the extra space, but I've been planning to replace the 250 GB SSD I use as a boot drive right now, and this is probably the SSD I'd replace it with unless Samsung come out with a newer version.

I think this is a decent sale price for the right now, but am I likely to be able to get this SSD appreciably cheaper next year?



Here's the deal information:

New Egg Canada, Canada Computers, and Memory Express all have their Samsung EVO drives on sale right now, and the 1 TB Samsung 860 EVO is on sale for $219 CAD on all of their websites.

The New Egg Canada eBay store has an ever better price, putting the 1 TB Samsung 860 EVO on sale for $208 CAD: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/202269476753

Then, eBay has a 10% off coupon code that's valid until tomorrow morning: https://www.ebay.ca/rpp/coupon-pickupten


Using the New Egg Canada listing with the 10% off eBay coupon code, I got the 1 TB Samsung 860 EVO SSD for $188 CAD, plus the taxes for my province. It cost me $213 CAD after taxes.

Oddly, when I typed the code PICKUPTEN manually and pasted it into the discount code box it didn't work for me, twice. But, then I copied and pasted it, and then it worked. I probably made a typo somewhere, but who knows.

I'm not sure if this is a great deal, but I did some price history checking on the Samsung 860 EVO and it looked to me like this is the lowest price it has been so far.

Why not? SSD prices are falling 10-20% on a yearly basis.

I went ahead and bought it. It looks like $219 CAD is the all-time retailer store low, and the New Egg eBay page is $10 below that, and then another $20 off from the 10% eBay discount code looks like it makes this a great deal.

Smart to just get it now and enjoy it.

There's no telling when the next "disaster" will hit, causing prices to double/triple/quadruple...

There was an ADATA 960GB SSD on Amazon a few days ago for $117 so yeah, the prices are coming down - now as long as no major earthquakes or tsunamis or some other massive event takes place that wipes out the factories that make such drives, the prices should continue to come down. If such a big natural event happens however that'll just fuck things up and reduce or completely stop production which will of course cause the prices to spike back up and it could take years for it to come back down to even the pricing we're seeing right now, like that ADATA for that price.

I just did a quick search and that ADATA drive is long gone but it's available from Rakuten (no idea where the hell they're based, Spain I think) for $129 but I have no idea if that's even in US dollars or what shipping would be (didn't bother creating an account for that site):

https://www.rakuten.com/shop/adata/product/ASU650SS-960GT-C/

Everything I read have said prices should keep dropping. The last article I read said prices have dropped 50% this year and are expected to drop another 50% next year.

Rakuten is just a marketplace, that Adata drive on there is being sold and shipped by Adata. Rakuten has 15% off coupons 1-2 times a month. I have ordered two Adata drives from them, they ship from California.

SSDs will be cheaper every year, big NAD manufactuers have been investing heavily on new plants on the past years, so there is a lot of NAD atm, but games are getting very big, so its a nice time to be on pure ssds, that said its only going to get cheaper as times goes by.... i wish i could say the same for memory.

In 2016 I got a PNY CS1311 120gb for $40. It failed early this year after bouncing it off the full mark the entire time. I put a 2.5" spinner as a stop gap. I just recently got an HP M700 240gb for $36. probably not even the best price it was just good enough price for me to bite, and the 2.5" spinner happen to be failing

It was $200 on Amazon, now at $163.
Also $163 at Newegg.

I used the 10% off coupon on ebay last week and picked up a 1TB SSD for $107 shipped. I'm seeing entry level drives in that size for $120-130 pretty regularly. They're fine for your Steam library, not sure I'd boot off one though.

I think in the next few months we'll see good, fast 1TB SSDs near the $100 mark. NVME models will be more, of course, but should be under $150. We're entering a good time to stock up on storage.

margrave said:

It was $200 on Amazon, now at $163.
Also $163 at Newegg.

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I just picked up the 860 EVO 1TB ssd for $147.99 from Amazon and DAMN, it;s like night and day (was on a spinning disc with a Sandisk Express Cache). Woo Hoo, I joined the 21st century finally (chucked the spinning disc for my system drive).