Have you been noticing the drop in prices of the M.2 NVME solid state storage devices over the last six months? Apparently there is a glut of semiconductor chips (I'm guessing memory chips) on the market and we also have some manufacturers dealing with reliability issues (I won't name them) that have their products dropping even more.
Who has been buying M.2 drives this year? I picked up two of the 2 TB Western Digital Black SN850X PCIe 4.0 drives in early June for just $140 USD each. They are still the same price today.
Fast and reliable storage.
As Albert Einstein said, "I could have done so much more with a Big Al's Computer!".