How long ago was that? There are suddenly a lot of 2230 drives available this year, I assume because of the Steam Deck. WD wants a piece of that pie. 🤤
Lots of reasonable 2230s available today from Micron, Teamgroup, Inland. The nicer ones from Samsung and other reputable brands will be double the price, yes. And even the cheap ones will be more expensive than a standard M.2 SSD. Miniaturization costs money, they’re more expensive to make. We’ll have to see how WD’s prices are, but I assume they’ll be higher like Samsung.
How long ago was that? There are suddenly a lot of 2230 drives available this year, I assume because of the Steam Deck. WD wants a piece of that pie. 🤤
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Lots of reasonable 2230s available today from Micron, Teamgroup, Inland. The nicer ones from Samsung and other reputable brands will be double the price, yes. And even the cheap ones will be more expensive than a standard M.2 SSD. Miniaturization costs money, they’re more expensive to make. We’ll have to see how WD’s prices are, but I assume they’ll be higher like Samsung.
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Oh yeah I wouldn’t get cheap brands for clients. But I do buy them for myself (and I make sure they’re backed up).
There are definately many more 2230 options 2 months ago. Handheld demand and side demand from the framework 16 (as 1 of its 2 ssd slots is 2230)
Off the top of my head, framework has already been stocking wd 2230s, Micron was already on the market, as well as Sabrent.
I would also think others like Corsair, Teamgroup, kingston and such all now have offerings.