Quote from: dont_buy_last_gen_nvmes on May 24, 2023, 04:49:36This is not a good deal at all. You can get a Samsung 2TB 980 Pro with a heatsink from gamestop for $149 that will read and write at double the speeds this model does as well as have better sustained RW speeds because of the heat sink.

Everything would be fine if it were not for a series of scandals with the quality of these same 980/990 Pro. Samsung has again spoiled its reputation, and this automatically leads to price cuts to the level of competitors or lower...

Wow, I bet this group is a lot of fun at parties... That's a lot of fast storage for not much dough, and Samsung does it better than most.

There is one nuance that the naive public forgets about, but which cunning manufacturers use - the quality of the goods. As prices drop, quality drops. You expect the quality of the goods, as at the original price, but in reality this is almost never the case ...

If for some reason the manufacturer cannot influence the quality, he reduces the weight or volume of the package, as everyone knows in the products. For example, in the USA, when the price of eggs increased 3 times, they simply began to sell 10 pieces, instead of the standard 12.

But in a highly sophisticated product, there are always many ways to imperceptibly lower the quality, but at the same time clearly inflate the price, at the level of the original quality. And all this is not taken into account by naive buyers who do not see the overall margin flow, on average, at the level of all released batches of goods but with different levels of quality (and hence the cost for the manufacturer).

The quality of Samsung SSD drives (as well as other manufacturers) also drops significantly with decreasing price. You can only find out when testing large batches of goods and during long-term tests, which no one naturally does.

If the consumer of the product knew exactly the difference in batches, he would most likely find that even this last price is significantly overpriced, in reality.

Quote from: Andrey Konstantinov on March 02, 2023, 05:45:00This is not a "72% discount". This is classic seller bait. It claims a list price of USD 500, does anyone really believe that? It sells for just a few dollars above this "discounted" price of USD 140 on Amazon Germany (EUR 145 = USD 155 at the moment), where it displays an accurate list price of EUR 165 (USD 175) and a 12% discount. This title is misleading.

Hi Andrey,
in contrast to Germany and other European countries, retailers in the US usually use the original list price as a reference, which actually  is $499 in this case. These SSDs have been on the market for more than 4 years, so it is rather understandable that they are sold at such steep discounts.

This is not a "72% discount". This is classic seller bait. It claims a list price of USD 500, does anyone really believe that? It sells for just a few dollars above this "discounted" price of USD 140 on Amazon Germany (EUR 145 = USD 155 at the moment), where it displays an accurate list price of EUR 165 (USD 175) and a 12% discount. This title is misleading.