WD Black SN850X 4TB SSD hits lowest sale price in months on Amazon

[Redaktion]

The sought-after 4TB SSD from Western Digital might not be as cheap as it was back in 2023, but storage enthusiasts who have set their sights on the WD Black SN850X can now take advantage of one of the largest discounts in months.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/WD-Black-SN850X-4TB-SSD-hits-lowest-sale-price-in-months-on-Amazon.818150.0.html

[TruthIsThere]

Uh-huh! As many WISE users has predicted. This poor act was going to fail... HARD! Global massive layoffs/firing everywhere in all segments, a very controversy primary election year, a massive reduction in consumer spending, ect. but... "hey, we got a great idea, let's inflate our prices even further"... shenanigans, eh?!

This "deal" (that's not a REAL savings and it's still very overpriced today... Gen4 under $40TB or nothing for the WISE masses) was predicted (the crooked OEMs 1Q test pilot to see how many users would bite into their BS) for the 1Q24 (you know, all the fear-mongering articles ~2H23 of a hike just to get the clueless folks to just *impulse* buy stuff... LMAO) and it will only get worse for these extremely shady companies... soon!

[NikoB]

Prices for SSDs have already increased from 40 to 100% in different models since the summer of 2023. Obviously, there are no more people willing to buy SSDs at the new prices. With declining reliability and quality of flash chips.

There are sites that monitor the prices of all hardware and there everything can be seen years ago, how they changed.

Increasing NAND layers does not lead to further price drops. And consumers expected exactly this by the beginning of 2024; instead, they received a return to prices at the level of late 2022-early 2023.

In addition, manufacturers increasingly began to install the cheapest and most unreliable QLC (and even without a dram buffer), hiding it under the abbreviation 3D-NAND, instead of indicating 3D TLC.

If they gave buyers the right to format the purchased disk in SLC mode (more precisely, they would give them the choice of formatting mode in proprietary utilities - SLC/MLC/TLC/QLC - as needed), as I have been suggesting for years, this would be a completely different situation on the market , when the goal is not capacity, but reliability and storage life of data without updating the contents of cells.

Well, taking into account the growth in disk capacity, it is necessary to use PLP technology on all capacious disks so that they cannot accidentally lose all data in the event of an accidental external power failure.

As the capacity of SSDs increases, the risks of storing data on them grow significantly. Especially for the average person who doesn't really think about backup, even data that he considers valuable. They just believe in the "reliability" of the discs, which I see in literally 80% of stupid reviews on large marketplaces.