SanDisk 500GB Ultra 3D NAND SSD - $70 Shipped @ Amazon

[Ian]

Amazon has the SanDisk 500GB Ultra 3D NAND SSD (SDSSDH3-500G-G25) on sale for $69.99. Shipping is free.

SanDisk 500GB Ultra 3D NAND SATA III SSD - 2.5-inch Solid State Drive - SDSSDH3-500G-G25

Get accelerated performance for better gaming and pro‐level multitasking with graphics‐intensive apps. Powered by 3D NAND technology, the SanDisk Ultra 3D SSD delivers enhanced endurance and reliability, blazing sequential read speeds of up to 560MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 530MB/s for no‐wait boot‐up, shorter application load times, and quicker data transfer3. In addition to cooler, quieter computing, the SanDisk Ultra 3D SSD includes proven shock and vibration‐resistance to protect your drive. From the company that invented the solid state technology that makes SSDs possible, the SanDisk Ultra 3D SSD catapults your performance to new levels. SanDisk products are constructed to the highest standards and rigorously tested. You can be confident in the outstanding quality, performance and reliability of every SanDisk product.

[Scour]

Ordered at end of the last year an ADATA SU650 960GB for 99€

Now some QLC-SSDs are on the sale, so I think in the next months we see cheaper SSDs

But still I´m not sure if SSDs are the best way to make backups

[Dartman]

I picked up a 480 gb SanDisk SSD for like 74 bucks shipped during black Friday last year and spent a while trying to properly clone my setup from the old 128 gig SSD we put in here when this rig was built just to have more space to load big stuff on the fast boot drive. So far either drive has held up fine but who knows how long they will actually last. My average on hard drives was 5 years though I had one that made 10 and I have several small retired drives that are much older with a lot less hours on them.

[Scour]

But SSDs have specs which say it have to hold the data only one year without turning on. I don´t know if every SSD fulfill the specs and whether every user think of turning on the SSD in the cabinet every year.

I´m very careful with important data, minimum is having the data 2x, sometimes even more than this. Last year it happened to me that one HDD and one SSD lost it´s data, both show unformated state. Wasn´t that bad because I had all the data 2x and so I could copy it again, but since this I started to burn important data also to an optical medium.