rscheffler wrote: artsupreme wrote:
I'm not seeing any crazy deals, will cyber Monday be better or have the BF prices just been in effect all week?
I'm looking for:
MacBook Air 13" M3 or M4 16gb 512SSD - it can be new or refurb. Best price I've seen so far is an M3 13" 16gb 512SSD refurb for $822 after tax. Any color will work as it's for an employee.
RF 85 VCM - I can get a new one for $1460, let me know if you see any better deals
WD Black SN850X 8TB - I was expecting to see deals close to $500....nothing close to that.
I haven't seen any decent storage deals for a while. I bought a couple WD Red Pro 18TB from B&H at around $16/TB but as you noted, zero discounts on the SN850X series...
Here in Canada the R5II dropped CA $300 to $4999 (approx. US $3575) until Dec. 4.
It looks like the price for flash storage is going nowhere but up from here. Prices have been creeping up for a couple years now as the rumor is the manufacturers purposely slowed production to get the prices up, and now I guess there's a huge demand for AI technology so there's technically a "shortage". You would think the Gen 4 PCIe would be going on sale since Gen 5 has been released, but prices keep climbing. The WD SN850X 8TB's could be had for $530 on sale during the last couple years, and the lowest I saw it on BF and CM was $679, Same with little SSD's like the Sandisk extreme V2. I use to buy 4TB's for $220, and now the lowest I've seen them was on sale for $309.
I guess will motivate me to get a NAS setup with spinners as I don't want to keep buying SSD's if prices continue to climb.
Dec 03, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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