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It's incredible how much the prices have fallen and that's how it should be. Sure, I bought the 960 close to launch but still the difference is staggering.

The 960 Evo still chugs along albeit it's a new one because a few months after I bought it, I had to RMA it. I guess that's what happens when you are an early adopter. I lost a few hours of work when the original 960 Evo decided to stop working but it also taught me to be more paranoia with backups.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (7 children)

$109 for an 840 EVO 250 GB in November 2014. Still rocking it to this day. Was absolutely thrilled to get it then. People don't fully grasp the paradigm shift that SSDs brought in terms of boot times. For practically the first time in personal computing the average user had a quantifiable metric to judge a PC's speed. It's arguably the largest leap in terms of technology advancement to speed advancement in PCs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Which is exactly why I dislike the fact that nvme happened.

The world had finally standardized on one physical size of hard drive, 2.5 inch sata. You could tell your technophobic aunt to just go buy one of these and it'll work.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I love nvme, personally. On the board is always better, and one screw is even easier than four. Because of nvme the only thing holding back SFF in the average use case is power supplies, and bricked cords are decent enough in the meantime.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My only gripe with the NVME screws is that they are board provided, and thus, if you lose it, it is a sad day, they are not standard, and I've got one board that doesn't match up with anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not only that, even though NVME is pretty standard these days, it's a crapshoot whether or not the mobo you buy will even come with the standoff/screws. One of the biggest rollout fails in modern tech history.

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