Amazon has heavily discounted the Samsung SSD 990 PRO 4TB — beat RAMageddon before Black Friday
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Deep discounts on high-end 4TB SSDs ahead of Black Friday are a reminder that storage is commoditizing even as AI workloads explode. If you’re capacity-constrained on local dev or edge boxes, this is the kind of pricing window to quietly overprovision.
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