There are lot of rumours that SSD prices are either going to up or remains static.
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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this is why i made the decision to have all 16TB of my media server on SSDs
Price per gigabyte is what we should be looking at and not specific models of drives.
why do we keep posting these?
Well, this is pretty normal. Just wait when Micron will enter with the new fab fully active.
Cost per TB on hdd's is what I look at and it doesn't move down much if at all.
The good news is HAMR drops next year, and that will substantially lower prices.
WD has all but said they will not be able to answer HAMR next year, and will have to compete on cost with smaller drives.
And Toshiba and HGST have been silent.
All that adds up to Seagate getting to 32-40TB next year, and the rest of the players having to slash prices so buyers can get two drives and save a lot.
HDDs are getting cheaper at the high end.
SSDs are still new enough that they are still figuring out how to get economic viability where HDDs were a decade ago.
1TB for $100 is new in NVMEs for example.
It's probably because of a physical limitation, kinda like what happened to magnetic tape back in the day. Give it a couple decades, the same thing would probably happen to ssds
Maybe not as dramatic of a price change but the prices for HDD are dropping. You couldn't get an 18TB hard drive for under $280 last year. Now they're on sale for $200.
It's probably because of a physical limitation, kinda like what happened to magnetic tape back in the day. Give it a couple decades, the same thing would probably happen to ssds
Maybe not as dramatic of a price change but the prices for HDD are dropping. You couldn't get an 18TB hard drive for under $280 last year. Now they're on sale for $200.
It's when a cheap substitute clears the low end of the market and only the expensive top remains profitable to make. Similar to iGPUs. You won't find a RTX 4010-4030 for $100, because the gpu built-in the cpu is just good enough for non-gamers.
Past performance is a terrible predictor of future performance. Ssd prices dropped a lot since the pandemic since demand dropped and the factories are still there. As usual this normally means that new factories will be delayed and prices will be relatively higher going forward for a while. Now the longterm trend still favors ssd but 2022 Is a shitty year to base your price projections on
Look at Seagate share price.. hasn’t tank
HDDs have hit a wall of physics, not of engineering. Well technically it still is engineering but the issues are ones that require new better understanding of physics to solve.
Me I am hype for the LTO price crashing on the next few years.