Will the price of portable SSDs drop?

[FatboyKim]

Much like ordinary portable external HDDs back in the day, prices of external SSDs are still sky high. £110-£120 for 1TB, close to £200 for 2TB etc.

I've just bought a Crucial 2TB, but have to say it's impressive. It's fast (1050mb/s) and small and light (11cm x 5cm, and less than 100g) and is purely to keep films on and plug it into whichever TV I'm watching on.

Is the long-running chip shortage affecting SSDs?

[paulrockliffe]

If you just want to move it between TVs then there's usually better ways, spend the money on networked storage, or spend nothing putting a Plex/Kodi server on a PC. And you don't need an SSD for this either really, chances are the bottle-neck will be whatever crappy software your TV is running.

[mikef]

I’m seeing 1TB NVMe SSDs from £62 ( WD Blue at eBuyer) and NVMe enclosures from £ 21 ( Sabrent at Amazon). A TB of decent speed external storage for under £83

[mmm-five]

What's wrong with a 2TB SanDisk SSD for £114.99?

Or the 'extreme' 1050MB/s version for £151??

Or the Crucial X8 2TB for £142?

I may have one or two of each

Edited by mmm-five on Wednesday 13th July 09:04

[FatboyKim]

That's just greedy!

The Crucial X8 is the one I bought, it's great.