If this is cheap enough compared to standard SSD's they should sell well and depending on reviews I might invest in a couple of 1tb m2 drives.

At SATA 6 Gb/s speeds it's not a feasible upgrade atm for me, I already own an SSD and want a speed/capacity bump. That said, as a storage device the price should render HDD up to 1Tb useless now. For personal use on desktops and laptops its time to retire HDD. As a storage medium, HDDs are still feasible.

Silva:

At SATA 6 Gb/s speeds it's not a feasible upgrade atm for me, I already own an SSD and want a speed/capacity bump. That said, as a storage device the price should render HDD up to 1Tb useless now. For personal use on desktops and laptops its time to retire HDD. As a storage medium, HDDs are still feasible.

Completely agree about the HDDs, at least as an OS drive. There is no reason install a system on a HDD anymore, just use a *slightly* smaller SSD that costs the same price. It is baffling that cheap laptops with a single storage device are still shipping with 500/750gb or 1tb 2.5" drives instead of a 256gb SSD that costs the same price. A lot of the 2.5" HDDs in laptops are not even 7200rpm. I have yet to run into any example of a user wishing they had the extra 250 or 500gb of storage vs the massive speed increase for the OS and applications.

SamuelL421:

Completely agree about the HDDs, at least as an OS drive. There is no reason install a system on a HDD anymore, just use a *slightly* smaller SSD that costs the same price. It is baffling that cheap laptops with a single storage device are still shipping with 500/750gb or 1tb 2.5" drives instead of a 256gb SSD that costs the same price. A lot of the 2.5" HDDs in laptops are not even 7200rpm. I have yet to run into any example of a user wishing they had the extra 250 or 500gb of storage vs the massive speed increase for the OS and applications.

I could use a new laptop as my current one died, but I have no desire to spend 300€ on a laptop and then a plus 30 to 60€ on an SSD. I have no idea why any laptop still ships with HDD, an SSD would make the thing much more usable.

Chinese sell 1Tb SSD

PsyaNyde:

If this is cheap enough compared to standard SSD's they should sell well and depending on reviews I might invest in a couple of 1tb m2 drives.

1Tb SSD for 87USD [I wish someone from mainstream tests it] It uses Toshiba NAND and SMI controller [check the review section, people posted pictures of it disassembled] https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Reeinno-SSD-240GB-SATA3-2-5inch-High-speed-TLC-flash-Internal-Solid-State-Disk-480GB-960GB/4424193_32914529719.html Im considering maybe to raid 2 of these, or settle for 1Tb 660p by Intel its 1800MB/s NVMe for 120USD right now on amazon and 109USD on Newegg