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$109 for an 840 EVO 250 GB in November 2014. Still rocking it to this day. Was absolutely thrilled to get it then. People don't fully grasp the paradigm shift that SSDs brought in terms of boot times. For practically the first time in personal computing the average user had a quantifiable metric to judge a PC's speed. It's arguably the largest leap in terms of technology advancement to speed advancement in PCs.
Which is exactly why I dislike the fact that nvme happened.
The world had finally standardized on one physical size of hard drive, 2.5 inch sata. You could tell your technophobic aunt to just go buy one of these and it'll work.
I love nvme, personally. On the board is always better, and one screw is even easier than four. Because of nvme the only thing holding back SFF in the average use case is power supplies, and bricked cords are decent enough in the meantime.
My only gripe with the NVME screws is that they are board provided, and thus, if you lose it, it is a sad day, they are not standard, and I've got one board that doesn't match up with anything.
Not only that, even though NVME is pretty standard these days, it's a crapshoot whether or not the mobo you buy will even come with the standoff/screws. One of the biggest rollout fails in modern tech history.
I, for one, am happy that technological innovation isn’t tethered to Auntie Agnes ability to comprehend.
I'll be making the leap to SSD in the near future. I picked up a couple m.2s a couple months ago and just haven't gotten around to adding them. Well, turns out it'll just be one because adding the second nukes all but 2 of my SATA ports and my 4x pcie apparently... At least the second one won't go to waste in my laptop.
I had a 2010 Macbook Pro that I was about to throw away a couple of years ago because it was unusable - beach ball of death constantly. I bought a 500GB SSD for around $70 AUD, went on YouTube and about an hour later booted up; it was like a new laptop. I eventually chucked it earlier this year because the battery had it and I didn't want to spend any more on it.