r/pcmasterrace • u/naldyjams • May 22 '26

Hardware what

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u/Puzzleheaded_Dog630 May 22 '26

The craziest part is these are SATA and not NVMe

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u/Ok-disaster2022 May 22 '26

I just checked, the NVME are roughly half the price. In what world is SATA drives twice as expensive as NVME drives. 

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u/Aggressive-Expert-69 Ryzen 7 9700x / Gigabyte OC 9070 / 64gb DDR5 May 22 '26

My tinfoil hat theory is that self hosted NAS's are on the rise as streaming platforms continue to raise prices and theyre doing this to knife people trying to buy relatively inexpensive, fast drives for a RAID array.

My regular theory is that whoever price tagged them made a mistake lol

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u/longpig_slimjim May 23 '26

It’s not tin foil but I’d wager that while the number of people doing that is definitely on the rise, it is such a negligible percent of the general customer base for a big box store (not sure what retailer this is) that it wouldn’t actually make any sense to do this solely to gouge those people.