Price per gigabyte is what we should be looking at and not specific models of drives.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

There are lot of rumours that SSD prices are either going to up or remains static.

this is why i made the decision to have all 16TB of my media server on SSDs

Well, this is pretty normal. Just wait when Micron will enter with the new fab fully active.

Yeah no shit. HDDs have been at the price floor for twenty or thirty years. Mechanical complexity dictates minimum cost. What keeps them relevant is expanding capacity. Finer control - even for the same components! - can significantly increase reliable data density. Plus, you can add more platters and only duplicate a few other moving parts.

On a good day, hard drives can offer fifteen-ish terabytes for $200.

By the time SSDs can match that, HDDs will probably be 40+ TB for the same price.

Even if those curves meet - what's really going to squelch the hard drive market is that laptops and smartphones won't touch them. Why in the name of god would you put a spinning disk in a moving object, after 2020? If your device needs as much storage as money can buy - not even a fat gaming laptop will fit 3.5" drives, and all that space comes from disk area. SSDs are going to push out HDDs in much the same way LCDs pushed out other flat-screen tech. It's a virtuous circle of sales encouraging research that improves products and results in more sales. there's probably gonna be a point where 1TB SD cards cost five bucks... and actually hold 1TB.

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

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.

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.

Look at Seagate share price.. hasn’t tank

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

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.

M.2 ssd are tge biggest deal but i only have one slot

Pretty common. Drive manufacturers aren’t able to reduce costs much because most of the cost cutting measures were figured out already. With SSDs there is still plenty of opportunity

SSD prices will likely rise in 2024. The market has been massively oversupplied, but they are reducing manufacturing to compensate. It will take some time to reflect in the MSRP but it's coming. Buy now while it's cheap!

why do we keep posting these?