<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Mebbe, but an article at Anandtech says this --<br>"Another lineup of Samsung’s products to use 3D QLC V-NAND will be client
SSDs featuring capacities higher than 1 TB. These drives will use a
SATA interface and will offer sequential read and write performance of
around 520 MB/s (when SLC write caching is enabled), according to
details that Samsung disclosed at its SSD Forum. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">Samsung does not
disclose when such drives are set to become available, but the company
says that Terabyte-class client SSDs will become mainstream in 2020
because of QLC V-NAND</span>."<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">See article at:<br><a href="https://www.anandtech.com/show/13117/samsung-discloses-first-details-about-qlc-based-client-server-ssds">https://www.anandtech.com/show/13117/samsung-discloses-first-details-about-qlc-based-client-server-ssds</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">So, it is possible that SSD folks are simply doing a blowout sale with the "big guys" as the spring/summer sales of IT components have purported been very soft. No matter, great deals for whose in need:-)<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron Singh<br><br></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 1:54 PM Stuart Seeley <<a href="mailto:stuart@lowlevel.ca">stuart@lowlevel.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">Pretty sure they're just flushing unsold inventory. Believe Samsung has a new 4-bit series in production/launching soon promising higher capacities and lower prices. </div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Stuart</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 1:03 PM CrankyOldBugger <<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Amazon prices are the same, at least for the 1TB ( <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Samsung-Internal-MZ-76E1T0B-AM-Version/dp/B078DPCY3T/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1535734809&sr=8-2&keywords=Samsung+860+EVO" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.ca/Samsung-Internal-MZ-76E1T0B-AM-Version/dp/B078DPCY3T/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1535734809&sr=8-2&keywords=Samsung+860+EVO</a> ) so I wonder if Samsung is just dropping their prices for everybody...</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 August 2018 at 12:57, Ron Singh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com" target="_blank">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Not that I am a shill for Canada Computers or Best Buy or Newegg Canada, but just wanted to let folks know of some uber-fab prices that they have currently on Samsung 860 V-Nand SSDs, see a 1TB 2.5" 860 EVO for only $229, 250G for $89 --<br><br><b><a href="https://www.canadacomputers.com/search/product.php?cPath=179_1229_1088&item_id=120022" target="_blank">https://www.canadacomputers.com/search/product.php?cPath=179_1229_1088&item_id=120022</a></b><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-6086756012321529839m_-5286002647722108827m_6522566675700843322gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Now's the time to do a bump in fast storage I think!<br><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Paul N., please let me know if I am violating any rules of KWLUG by posting messages like this, don't think I am, but want to be sure.<br></div><br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Ron Singh<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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