kiddingguy Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Why are 'standard' SATA SSD way more expensive then NVMe ones? What's the main reason? Some looking for info on the internet states: "Differences in pricing In general, NVMe SSDs are more expensive than SATA SSDs. Even when both NVMe and SATA drives have the same storage capacities, NVMe drives cost more. The cost of a 250GB NVMe SSD storage space ranges from $50 to $90, a 500GB one from $70 to $160, and a 1TB storage from $120 to $200." https://www.spiceworks.com/tech/hardware/articles/sata-vs-nvme/#:~:text=Differences in pricing,storage from %24120 to %24200. https://www.promax.com/blog/is-it-worth-paying-more-for-an-nvme-vs-ssd That doesn't match these statements..... Or have these differences occured over the last couple of months? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 NVME are cheaper because it takes less to make and a lot of people are using it nowadays. Not sure what else to add here.. Xenon 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Supervisor Posted April 14 Supervisor Share Posted April 14 Hello, I have not seen SATA SSD drives priced more expensively than NVMe SSDs. Perhaps this is a local market condition? Regards, Aryeh Goretsky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaybonaut Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 I too have not seen SATA SSDs more expensive. NVMe should be more expensive if they are pricing due to speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddingguy Posted April 14 Author Share Posted April 14 @goretsky@Jaybonaut Apparently in The Netherlands is it [as far as I can tell]. e.g. https://tweakers.net/pricewatch/1753994/kingston-kc3000-2tb.htmlhttps://tweakers.net/pricewatch/1480446/kingston-kc600-alleen-ssd-2tb.html Plus also other brands, like Samsung. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaybonaut Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Is it just one store? It makes no sense. Not only is it way faster, it's write endurance is monumentally ridiculously higher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon H Supervisor Posted April 14 Supervisor Share Posted April 14 it seems to be that the SATA Kingston is out of production so it's just 3rd party resellers and thus the price increase. it appears to be the same for those two drives on the US Amazon. Personally I'd say stick to the big 3 for SSDs of both types: Crucial, Samsung, and Western Digital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaybonaut Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 On 14/04/2023 at 08:23, Brandon H said: it seems to be that the SATA Kingston is out of production so it's just 3rd party resellers and thus the price increase. it appears to be the same for those two drives on the US Amazon. Personally I'd say stick to the big 3 for SSDs of both types: Crucial, Samsung, and Western Digital. Did you see the write endurance for some of those KC3000 drives though? Multiple PETABYTES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neufuse Veteran Posted April 15 Veteran Share Posted April 15 (edited) Prices used to be a lot higher for nVME but now they are basically the same everywhere I've seen lately, could it be that SATA versions are discontinued and people are jacking the prices up that aren't OEM sellers?... SATA seems to be disappearing fast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 On 15/04/2023 at 15:11, neufuse said: Prices used to be a lot higher for nVME but now they are basically the same everywhere I've seen lately, could it be that SATA versions are discontinued and people are jacking the prices up that aren't OEM sellers?... SATA seems to be disappearing fast Yea, because PCI and USB are faster than SATA these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Supervisor Posted April 16 Supervisor Share Posted April 16 Hello, As a general explanation, it could be that more manufacturing capacity is being devoted to NVMe than SATA SSDs. This means the price of discrete components for NVMe SSDs goes down, because they are being ordered in larger quantities. Also, the assembly costs are probably lower, since NVMe SSDs do not have to get a 2.5" shell placed around them like SATA SSDs. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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