Obviously, big companies like Dell buy their drives in bulk and can get much better pricing than I can surfing Newegg.
Granted, you get double the RAM and a newer CPU for that added cost as well.īut no PC approaching $1,000 should be shipping with cramped storage these days when you can buy fast 250GB-class drives at retail for as little as $70, or even less than $50 if you’re willing to step down to a PCIe x2 drive rather than an x4 option. The first model that steps you up to 250GB class is priced above $1,200.
Dell ships the $899 entry model of its latest XPS 13 (9380) with a 128GB (let’s call it 120GB class for the sake of simplicity) NVMe boot drive.
