How to buy a reduced price SSD? Everything you want is here

Xiaobian Morning's "Press Tea Fan" mentioned the SSD price issue. Many small partners have asked to make a SSD price comparison. With today's update, Xiao Bian pushes a wave for your reference. It should be noted that the price selected by Xiao Bian is only a reference, not an absolute value, and everyone can make more decisions on the prices of different platform online stores.

Why SSD prices cut prices?

The reason for the recent price reduction of SSDs is actually very simple. That is, after the first two years of large-scale production conversion by manufacturers, transformation of production lines, and shortage of flash granules, the production lines of major manufacturers have returned to normal in 2018, and large-capacity 3D NAND technology has also matured. Drive full production. As a result, the production of flash SSDs and SSDs has increased significantly. Since the previous two years, the supply shortage has turned into an oversupply, and prices have naturally dropped.

Where is the price difference of the same capacity SSD?

Why are the price differences between different brands of SSDs so hot? The most important reason is that the selected flash memory chip is different from the main control chip. The former determines the service life of the SSD, and the latter reflects the read/write speed. In addition, there are additional service costs such as after-sales service and product warranty. For example, Samsung and Kingston SSD provide a 3-year warranty, and Intel and Western Digital provide a 5-year warranty.

If you want your own SSD to be used with peace of mind, do not choose those super-branded products (brands or names that have never been heard before). In order to provide more attractive prices, the use of flash SSDs is mostly used in the elimination of defective products from large brands, picking out reluctantly available granules after low-cost acquisition, or lowering the speed of use. Although this kind of SSD can be used, how fast is it? How long can it be used? Only heaven knows.

In addition, differences in SSD structure and speed also result in price differences. For example, high-speed NVMe M.2 interface SSDs use higher-speed, lower-power, smaller-size flash memory chips and high-speed control chips. Naturally, the cost and selling price are also high. Higher than the average SSD.

Which SSDs are more worth buying?

When picking SSDs, the biggest concern of small partners is capacity and speed. Now 240/256GB SSD is the most cost-effective capacity, and it is also very suitable for the needs of the current use, install Win10 system and daily software, then install several large-scale games, no problem, Xiaobian strongly recommended.

The 240/256GB SSD has the highest price-to-price ratio, regardless of whether it is an old model or a different interface.

As for the speed of reading and writing, in fact, the same brand of interface SSD is not much difference, Xiao Bian suggested to choose to read faster, write speed is enough to go, after all, play games to see a movie in the daily application of the Internet, read the data The demand is far greater than the write.

In addition, small partners can also pay attention to the high-speed NVMe M.2 SSD, some of which are very close to the price of SATA SSDs and are ready for sale. Even if the motherboard does not have an NVMe M.2 interface, you can buy an inexpensive PCI-E riser card. These SSDs are much faster than SATA SSDs, and they can be used for a few more years when they are later replaced with motherboards and processors, or even abandoned desktops for laptops.