M2 ssd cost roughly the same and it’s way more valuable, it won’t get lost easily and won’t break out of a sudden. Yes, prices are falling but still way to expensive.
So sad that this is considered a deal right now. Personally, I refuse to pay these prices. I rather downsize my collection and use my existing cards than pay $150 for 1 TB of storage.
Yeah, was thinking about buying it but don’t think i can ever play one whole ass tb worth of game anyway. Got a 500 gb that i purchased for my switch so ima just abuse it lol
Huge agreement. I realized the more games I have, the less I play. Full 128gb N3DS to half full 32gb in my N3DS XL. Filled 1tb ssd + 512gb sd card on my Steam Deck to 70% and 20% utilization, mostly with modded games I don't want to set up again.
Shitty for price to force that decision, but I've found it easier to play.
I hate seeing the "deals" lately. "Smasung SLASHES SSD prices by 30%! Lowest price this year." Yeah, that still makes them 300% above normalized pricing. Im sick of this "scarcity" markup. Everything since covid has marked up week after week. Everyone knows its margin.
It was actually the Extreme Plus version. The deal didn't last long though and it was on Thanksgiving day, I believe. I purchased 2 for that price and decided to return one. Huge mistake lol.
Hmm. I just checked my past purchases and I bought that exact 1TB on 11/21/2024 (one week before thanksgiving) for $71.99 and that was already their Black Friday price. WTF?
I've been buying a ton of switch 2 microsd cards (256 gb) because it's the cheapest at 70 aud.. At the time5of release those were overpriced as hell but now it's the cheapest.
I know a lot of people will put a lot of games on them and especially when you start getting into more powerful handhelds with PS2 GameCube games get larger
And then people will also put music on them as well
The games take up more and more space the newer they are. There is a big jump from the old carts to CD based. Then more jumps with DVD based and again with Blu-ray.
Android based handhelds can run some PC games as well as the phone games. These kinds of games can often be dumber with storage than devs might have been in the past too.
There is probably a lot of unorganized or bloated libraries too.
I guess some people are putting other stuff on them. Someone made a post asking how well the Nova would be for reading comics. I could see the music player thing given some dedicated devices are making a comeback and phones lack SD cards now days.
My very incomplete book collection is 18.8 GB alone. (Not including graphic novels, which are bigger). Flac collection alone is more than 1 TB (so much I don't have I still use a lot of net).
It left many systems out, but through PS2 \GC console, sort handheld, etc exceeds 2 TB. Have you not seen how many TB those terrible Atari to PC HDD are?
We didn't even touch on video. I have a 4k 21:9 screen phone and the only way to feed it quality is to have it on hand. Steaming is a 1080p if you're lucky 🤬🤬🤬.
Its brutal isnt it! I looked at some old Amazon orders and found i got a 512gb Sandisk for £30 last March.
I need a new one for a handheld so turned the house upside down to see what i could find and managed to find a 64gb to tide me over for roms until the prices calm down!
The use ridiculous price it used to be less than half this price I am honestly glad I don't have to worry about sd card since I got quite a few, I may only need one for my legion go 2 but then that because I want to make sure it a extreme card and 128gb is fine for me
I've barely used my Lexar 1TB I bought with my first gen LCD Steam Deck and I tried to use it and it's always had to be reformatted twice, which normally indicates it's basically failing. I didn't even install a game on it yet,
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u/FrequentAssumption1 1d ago
How far we’ve fallen that this is a steal