Samsung 970 EVO Plus PCIe NVMe 500gb - $99 & 1TB - $199

[Rockets]

Newegg has some deals on the Samsung 970 EVO Plus:

Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500gb PCIe NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive (MZ-V7S500B/AM) - $99

https://www.newegg.com/samsung-970-evo-plus-500gb/p/N82E16820147742

Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB PCIe NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive (MZ-V7S1T0B/AM)

https://www.newegg.com/samsung-970-evo-plus-1tb/p/N82E16820147743

They also have the 250GB model for $80.25

 

[Revenant_Knight]

I really like Samsung SSDs, but they are hard to justify when you have the Phison E12 based units for half the price and the same performance.

 

[Lateralus]

I really like Samsung SSDs, but they are hard to justify when you have the Phison E12 based units for half the price and the same performance.

I agree. The one caveat to that is if your device only supports a single-side NVMe drive. Those seem to be fairly rare in the higher capacities, with the Samsungs and a few others (WD Black, Intel 660p/760p, etc.) being exceptions.

Otherwise yeah, E12 or SM2262EN drives all the way for most workloads.

 

[Rockets]

I agree, I bought the WD Black SN750 500gb recently, when it was on sale at Amazon. The extra $20 for the Samsung doesn't seem worth it to me. The MyDigitalSSD BPX Pro 960GB looks very interesting with 1,665 TBW endurance for only $120.

https://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/m...cie-3.1-x4-nvme-ssd-mdnvme80-bpxp-1t/?cat=620

 

[odditory]

I really like Samsung SSDs, but they are hard to justify when you have the Phison E12 based units for half the price and the same performance.

Yeah. Samsung Magician (SSD dashboard) is cool for one-click firmware updates and seeing stats at a glance, but most people just look at that once or twice in the lifetime of a drive.

Once you start buying Inland 1TB's for $99 and seeing the performance, it's dashboard be damned. Especially now that you don't need a local Microcenter to get one, since MC is now selling on Amazon.