Thought $263.26 is pretty good for a top tier 2 TB 4th gen Nvme. Also considering Crucial is closing down, might be a good time to snag one.
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I think Micron is like many businesses, maximum profit and greed, so they decide to abandon consumer products and just concentrate on highly profitabe AI business. I hope a few Chinese companies will take up all the void left by Micron and the other semiconductor companies.
yep they are a business, and businesses need to make money. You are not their friend, it is purely a transactional relationship. They have found a more profitable way of operating, nothing emotional about it.
I usually say this to people when they say one company is more ethical than the other (usually amd cpus although that has died down the last few years)
Nobody should prefer one computer parts company over the other except for reliability and price
The AI industry now covers more than enough demand so that companies voluntarily stop supplying to general public.
And you suggest to stop buying with hopes it will reduce the price? You must be dreaming.
I never said that.
It's a bubble, but unlike previous tech bubbles, its not a consumer bubble. This is more akin to the property bubble, where the government are invested and are happy to adjust policy in order to ensure the bubble does not pop
Micron is exiting consumer market, -1 major SSD manufacturer and here we have it:
"Yes, there's a strong chance for SSD prices to skyrocket due to AI, mirroring the DRAM price surge, as massive AI data centers are consuming huge amounts of storage (NAND flash)"
It seems soon 1TB M.2 for $500 will look like a bargain :(
YES!
I bought this product for about $200 in one of Crucial's own promotions. It is okay as a scratch disk, but personally, I won't buy Micron again.
I won't buy Micron again.
since they're exiting consumer business, you won't get the chance to any way!
And if they do return, you'd forget about this, or the price would be too enticing.
What’s the issue with it? I got a 1TB model from a aliexpress deal to use as a system drive.
Delivery date end of February. Amazon is selling this with the hope it can buy it. Lots of these orders are getting cancelled near delivery date. I’m still waiting for ram and an SSD. Your chances of getting this is like flipping a coin you might be lucky, but you might not.
Micron - What a pr*ck.
These are the kinds of decisions made by slick-haired execs who have two meetings a day and a $400 lunch, then congratulate themselves about ripping people off even further, before driving their gold-plated Mercedes back to their gated mega-mansion.
True but if you are in their position, won't you be doing the same thing too? Or are you a very charitable person and decide to stay on manufacturing RAM and SSD, and selling them at low prices to satisfy the community, but you won't be able to live in mansion and drive a gold-plated Mercedes?
There are several companies that do the right thing already instead of chasing short term profits and are still swimming in money while being loved by their customers, vastly outperforming their competition.
Valve being at the top of the list and Gabe being able to own a $1b fleet of Yachts. The excess greed is a trait of public companies where you hire a bunch of grubby c-levels that don't care about the product, employees or customers and are only interested in collecting their bonuses from showing shareholders short term profits and jumping ship after to get a payraise at the next job once cracks start showing at the seams or bubbles pop so they don't have to deal with the blowback. It's a busted aggressive business strategy that every company seems to be copying post-covid and does damage to markets, smaller reliant businesses and the economy long term and is starting to show signs that it needs regulation.
Sure, but like I have said if you have the opportunity to triple or quadruple your income in the next 5-10 years, but you have to abandon your existing customers and cater for new customers, would you do that?
@edfoo: And risk being publicly hated while already making decent profits to cater to an overvalued market? No. Theres plenty of other risks involved that would make those profits redundant and plenty of large businesses and shareholders have been burned in 2025 chasing ai money.
As I've stated in the above example, other companies have had similar opportunities chasing high short term profits , but chose to stick to their morals and still got rewarded for it, while not having to deal with threats and fluctuations to business stability and profits like many companies that chase short term profits. These hired revolving door CEOs don't care about the business since it's not theirs, they make their money and leave after a few years.
it was Open AI that snapped 40% of global memory chips for it's own use on the very same day (they signed contract with Samsung & SK Hynix on the very same day) causing all the disruption!!! :(((((
would you still support them?
Open AI are writing checks you can't cash.
Their revenue is tiny yet they have “signed” contracts for a trillion.
If it weren't for ridiculous amounts of investment behind the scenes they would have gone bust by now or would have had to increase prices and shut off their free tier forcing many of their customers to consider open source models or other alternatives. They have eye-watering operating costs and were making ridiculous losses, even factoring out the re-investment costs into expanding infrastructure.
It’s fun to watch the human race races to its own extinction. At least I enjoyed my time with the cats.
J/k. The world needs some to settle the disruptions. AI might actually heal the anxiety generation.
I bought this for $200 a few weeks ago from Amazon, great drive but I wouldn't be supporting them now
My builds typically have Crucial drives and RAM modules as they are cheaper: DDR3 Crucial Ballistic, MX 500 SATA and T500 NVMe. Now they are no more and prices skyrocket, sad days T . T
i dont know if id be in a massive rush to buy a ssd from a brand that i know is being shuttered
The price on NVME drives is now going up almost as fast as the price on DDR RAM… 5% per day :) 1TB nvme will soon be $600 just like 32GB of DDR5 is now $600
2026 prices are set to doulble again… $2000AUD for 64GB of DDR5 and my guess is $1000AUD for 2TB nvme drives
The issue is that Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix are not making more consumer ram or nvme flash.. THEY ARE infact maxing out their current fabs to max capacity to increase supply that 100% will go to AI Data centres and at the same time reducing the consumer side allocation for what they currently make and moving it all to AI data centres products.
THIS memory is HBM and ECC DDR5 that will never see any (second hand) re-use in the consumer space once the AI bubble pops so ram prices will take a few years to come back down to a normal amount if ever when data centre demand tanks and the fabs move back to producing consumer DDR5 and nand flash chips again
SSD's are definitely rising in price. 8 days ago I bought 2TB T705's from Amazon cheaper ($249.05) than this is selling for now..
Extortionate RAM/SSD pricing should hopefully depress X870E motherboard prices.
CPU, motherboard and PSU prices are going to crash for sure… Only the people who need too are going to be upgrading their PC's over the next 2 years until the prices of RAM and Storage come back down to acceptable levels.
Anyone with a PC that runs hot my advice is to move that PC to a cooler running case and lots of fans to make sure it lasts.
It was sold out on Amazon.com.uk. I ended up buying it for $267 from Amazon Germany VIA amazon.com.au
how do you locate this deal?
Click on item, then look on bottom right side of screen for all the options.
First one I'm currently seeling is from Amazon Germany for $267.77 (delivery Monday 26 Jan - Wednesday 28 Jan), using Free standard global delivery.
Holy crap i got one and now theyre $564!!!!
I wouldn't want to support Micron's business. So Anti-Consumer.