I was surprised to see this in the Intel Optane 900p 480GB package received today. A RSI Star Citizen Sabre Raven code card. I originally thought they were limited in distribution, I guess not.
Optane 900p still shipping with Star Citizen March 2018
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I was surprised to receive one of these codes. I sold it for $114 on eBay a few days ago bringing the price of my Optane down from $350 to $236. Not a bad deal!
Ya, I was looking at that... found mine on my desk totally forgot I was holding off to see.
Sadly the availability isn't down
price is though, 100$ is better than 0 though LOL
Competitive but not exactly in line with, for sure. A 250GB Samsung EVO 960 is ~50c/GB and my price-adjusted 280GB Optane 900P was 84c/GB plus.
Keep in mind that considering Intel SSDs quality, the Optane 900P should be compared to a Samsung Pro 960 instead of the EVO. Sadly, as there is no 960 PRO smaller than 512 GiB is hard to compare, but...
Intel Optane 900P 480 GB PCIe - Newegg 530 U$D - 114 = 416 U$D / 480 GB = 0.87 per GB
Samsung 960 PRO 512 GB M.2 - Newegg 308 U$D / 512 GB = 0.60 per GB
Bah, maybe not THAT competitive, but much less crazy. Besides, the 960 EVO/Pro uses the M.2 format which has no cooling and should be cheaper to manufacture that a full blow card. If you wanted cooling due to heavy usage or had to buy a M.2-to-PCIe adapter, I doubt that the Samsung SSDs can challenge Optane in any count but bursty performance, thus the price difference would be easily justified.
Aw, this must be a US only thing, as I didn't receive this with any of the 3 900p drives purchased.