RE: I swear Technology hates me.
July 12, 2023 at 12:45 pm
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2023 at 12:50 pm by Angrboda.)
If you're going to take advantage of this, today is the last day at that price as this is the second of two Amazon Prime Day sale days. I noticed in passing that the Adata XPG SX8200 Pro is at a good price as well. If you have the money, gohardrive is selling used HGST 8TB 3.5" hard drives at about $70 under the Amazon Renewed policy (90 days free returns); that paired with a small cheap SATA SSD and primocache for $30 would make an excellent gaming drive. You wouldn't want those SSDs for the system because they're dramless, but for under $100 + the $30 for primocache, you'd have an 8TB gaming drive. The Samsung EVO Plus 870 and Crucial MX500 are good buys for a system drive in a SATA form factor. (Difference between speed of SATA and fourth gen NVME is not something that you'd notice in practice -- maybe a few percent).
ETA: The HGST and the similar WD HC320 are not Prime Day sales, so there's no hurry to buy those.
ETA: The HGST and the similar WD HC320 are not Prime Day sales, so there's no hurry to buy those.