$90 SAMSUNG T7 Shield 1TB, Portable SSD, up to 1050MB/s, USB 3.2 Gen 2

See https://www.amazon.com …11ed93620515655​96235&th=1

John from PA wrote in post #19442169
See https://www.amazon.com …11ed93620515655​96235&th=1

Every year the SSD prices are better and better.

John from PA wrote in post #19442169
See https://www.amazon.com …11ed93620515655​96235&th=1

For some reason the 2TB option is more expensive than 2 units of 1TB each. Anyways, putting it on a thanksgiving watchlist.

John from PA wrote in post #19442169
See https://www.amazon.com …11ed93620515655​96235&th=1

I don't want to scare anyone off, as my T7 experience may have been an outlier, but if you do get this, put it to the test for sustained throughput over minutes to get a chance to get to its hottest and see if speed stays high before your return window closes.

ajayclicks wrote in post #19443977
For some reason the 2TB option is more expensive than 2 units of 1TB each. Anyways, putting it on a thanksgiving watchlist.

When I was a teen a Pizza shop opened up right near the subway station in my neighborhood, and I went in and looked at the prices, and a large pie cost about 20% more than 8 slices, which is what they got out of the large pie when sold by the slice. I, of course, tried to order "16 slices" when my father sent me to buy two large pies, but the owner said he had no way to give me 16 slices to carry away, and that I needed to buy pies.

Hopefully, the memory/storage industry has some better logic behind their pricing.

ajayclicks wrote in post #19443977
For some reason the 2TB option is more expensive than 2 units of 1TB each. Anyways, putting it on a thanksgiving watchlist.

John Sheehy wrote in post #19444030
When I was a teen a Pizza shop opened up right near the subway station in my neighborhood, and I went in and looked at the prices, and a large pie cost about 20% more than 8 slices, which is what they got out of the large pie when sold by the slice. I, of course, tried to order "16 slices" when my father sent me to buy two large pies, but the owner said he had no way to give me 16 slices to carry away, and that I needed to buy pies.

Hopefully, the memory/storage industry has some better logic behind their pricing.

Or it just might be that the parts used for the 2TB drive are simply more expensive than those for 1TB, and some algorithm or corporate rules for profit margin is driving the pricing

Given the current oddities in supply chain, the pricing might be screwed up because the 2 TB parts are in higher demand?

I haven't kept track of this at all, but from 30 years of buying drives, it seems that the largest drives have always been more expensive from a GB/$ standpoint.

Medium-sized drives seem have the cheapest GB/$. Cheaper than piecing together the equivalent volume from smaller drives. But when you move to the largest drives for a given technology, the GB/$ price goes up. Packing the maximum capacity into a single device stresses the technology and you pay for that.

Of course, as technology advances, what was a large drive a couple of years ago might be a medium-sized drive today and priced accordingly. Right now, a 1 TB SSD seems to be the sweet spot.

ajayclicks wrote in post #19443977
For some reason the 2TB option is more expensive than 2 units of 1TB each. Anyways, putting it on a thanksgiving watchlist.

Today I see $149.99 for the 2TB!