NVMe SSD Price Index: Dated $/TB for 2TB Drives at Newegg (Pilot)

By LK Wood IV · Published 2026-09-14 · ~4 min read · St. Louis County, MO

The short version

NAND pricing turned upward through 2026 alongside DRAM, and the $/TB figures that circulate are mostly undated deal posts. This page is a dated, checkable record: the cheapest qualifying price for twelve 2TB NVMe drives sold by Newegg itself, with the method, the acceptance rules, every rejection reason and the raw data published beside the numbers. Rows dated before September 26, 2026 came from a list of named direct US retailers.

It is labeled a pilot because the index metric has an activation gate, and the gate status is printed here verbatim rather than worked around.

Latest capture

Collection status: Captures since September 26, 2026 read Newegg directly. While fewer than six of the twelve tracked drives qualify, the gate stays closed and no index row is written. The basket grew from eight drives to twelve on September 28, 2026, so a capture made before that change counts against eight. The block below names the latest capture; check Newegg for current price and stock.

Latest capture, October 11, 2026 (UTC), method ssd-usd-per-tb-newegg-direct-v3: 72 listings reviewed, 12 eligible offers, 12 of 12 tracked drives qualified; the index metric activates at 6, so the gate is open and a series row was written for this date. Every row carries verification_status: discovery_only and publish_ready is False: stock is the retailer page’s own flag at fetch time; exact variant matching is mechanical by title, not confirmed by a person.

Cheapest qualifying offer: $279.99 at Newegg (WD Blue SN5100 2TB, 140 $/TB).

This block is rewritten by the capture script on every run; the dated commentary below it is not.

This is a 2TB internal M.2 NVMe basket. It can answer a broad SSD-cost question as a dated 2TB benchmark and can compare price per gigabyte or terabyte within that scope. It does not establish a 1TB, 4TB, 8TB, SATA, external-drive, or live-deal price. Those need a matching capacity and form factor from a dated retailer-owned capture. Hardware class and role belong in the SSD tier list and role-based NVMe guide.

Recent qualifying observations

The file below accumulates one row per qualifying offer for each capture date. The table below shows the two latest capture dates so current rows are easy to find. Download the complete CSV history below it for all earlier rows. Both views use the same raw file at build time.

Showing 24 of 137 observations from the latest 2 capture dates. Download the complete CSV history. The table is rendered from that file at build time.

Method, exactly

The current method, first used on September 26, queries each tracked drive on Newegg and confirms the selected sold-by-Newegg item on its pinned product page. The row comes from ItemDetail: FinalPrice less a real shipping charge, seller, stock, new/refurbished/open-box flags and fetch time. Marketplace, refurbished, open-box, out-of-stock, wrong-model and out-of-band rows are rejected. Stock and the mechanical title match are not independently verified.

The basket changed on September 28, 2026. I track twelve 2TB M.2 2280 drives: Samsung 990 PRO, Samsung 990 EVO Plus, Samsung 9100 PRO, WD_BLACK SN850X, WD_BLACK SN7100, WD Blue SN5100, Kingston KC3000, Kingston NV3, Crucial P310, TEAMGROUP MP44, TEAMGROUP T-FORCE G50 and TEAMGROUP T-FORCE CARDEA A440. Ten are PCIe 4.0. The 990 EVO Plus runs at PCIe 4.0 x4 or 5.0 x2 (Samsung’s specification). The 9100 PRO is PCIe 5.0. I picked the earlier basket of eight for results across retailers. At Newegg alone, two of the eight qualified and the gate never opened.

Four drives left because Newegg itself does not sell them: Crucial T500, Lexar NM790, Solidigm P44 Pro and SK hynix Platinum P41. A search of Newegg’s own listings for each model name returned nothing that day.

Two drives this page showed with no Newegg listing were on sale from Newegg itself. The TEAMGROUP MP44 was in the September 26 and September 28 captures at $325.99, rejected because my title rule required “teamgroup” where the listing says “Team Group”. The Kingston KC3000 never came back from the search. My query named “NVMe”, a word its listing does not use. Both rules are fixed. Both drives stay, and queries now name the model and nothing else.

Eight drives joined, chosen from the 41 Newegg-sold 2TB M.2 2280 listings I found that day: two more Samsung lines, two more from WD, the Kingston NV3, the Crucial P310 and two TEAMGROUP T-FORCE drives. Each tracked drive is the bare M.2 2280 version. A heatsink version, another capacity, an M.2 2230 version or a sibling model such as the MP44Q is rejected by title. The method name moved to ssd-usd-per-tb-newegg-direct-v3 with the basket, so every series row says which basket produced it.

The archived captures used Google Shopping (US, English) via DataForSEO’s merchant API. That collection route is retired. The historical method used one exact-model query per tracked drive. Under that historical method, an offer qualified only if the seller matches a named direct-retailer allowlist (Best Buy, Newegg, B&H, Micro Center, Adorama, Walmart first-party, and peers — marketplace suffixes excluded), the title names the exact model line and the 2TB capacity and identifies an internal NVMe or M.2 drive, condition is new, and the USD price sits inside a sanity band. Dollars per terabyte is the price divided by two.

The index metric (median cheapest $/TB across drives) activates at six of twelve qualifying drives on the same day. Below that, the observations still publish; the index row does not. The minimum was six before the basket changed. I left it there.

Use the data (CC BY 4.0)

Download every observation: ssd-price-observations.csv — one row per qualifying offer with capture date, drive, price, $/TB, seller and verification status. When at least six of the twelve drives qualify, that day’s row is added to /data/ssd-price-index.csv. License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 — attribute as “TechFuelHQ NVMe SSD Price Index” linking to this page.

Sizing a drive for its write life? The SSD endurance calculator turns TBW into years. For hardware class rather than price, the SSD tier list tiers NVMe drives by PCIe generation, NAND type and cache, and it covers seven of the twelve tracked here. For why the prices look like this, the RAM and SSD price crisis explainer is this dataset’s narrative companion, and the DDR5 RAM price index is its sibling.

Change log

• 0.10.0 (2026-09-28) — basket re-baselined to drives Newegg sells itself. Twelve drives are tracked, up from eight; the six-drive minimum is unchanged; the method is ssd-usd-per-tb-newegg-direct-v3. Left: Crucial T500, Lexar NM790, Solidigm P44 Pro and SK hynix Platinum P41, none of which Newegg itself sells. Kept: Samsung 990 PRO and WD_BLACK SN850X, the two that qualified on September 26 and 28, and Kingston KC3000 and TEAMGROUP MP44, which Newegg sells and my query and title rule had missed. Joined: Samsung 990 EVO Plus, WD_BLACK SN7100, TEAMGROUP T-FORCE CARDEA A440, WD Blue SN5100, Crucial P310, Kingston NV3, TEAMGROUP T-FORCE G50 and Samsung 9100 PRO, the basket’s one PCIe 5.0 x4 drive. Rows already in the observations file are unchanged, and no index row existed to restate. This is the first entry since the source moved from Google Shopping results to Newegg’s own listings on September 26 (method ssd-usd-per-tb-newegg-direct-v2).
• 0.9.0 (2026-09-14) — pilot publication and first published capture. A single unpublished pilot capture from 2026-08-11 is retained in the evidence archive and is not part of the observations file.