SSDs have gotten much cheaper. 10 years ago, they were over $0.50/GB, now they’re just over $0.04/GB That’s over 12 times cheaper.
You can get a 2tb ssd for $85. 10 years ago a 2tb ssd would’ve been super expensive and very boogie.
Peffse@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I just want bigger drives… I feel like we’ve been stuck at 1TB for at least a decade.
GeekySalsa@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
hark@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
SSDs were even cheaper until memory manufacturers decided it was getting too cheap: tomshardware.com/…/ssd-prices-predicted-to-skyroc…
They predicted prices would go higher and, through the magic of intentionally constricting supply, it happened. Prices still have not dropped back down to where they were in 2023.
GeekySalsa@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m not sure if SSDs were really cheaper before. RIght now, I’m seeing about $0.043-$0.05/GG. From what I recall, that’s about the same or a little better than what we had in 2023.
However, I very much agree that prices should have decreased much further in that time.
hark@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This isn’t extensive, but when looking up products on amazon through camelcamelcamel that existed in 2023 and now, the trend matches up:
qaz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Where can you get a 2TB SSD for $85? Most 2TB SSD’s I’ve seen cost about €120 with the cheapest going down to €98.
GeekySalsa@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There are several options here below $90 (including a couple nvme ones), and a couple at or below $85: pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#t=…
Valmond@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah, my 2013 black 1TB cost like 100€ so 12 years ago, prices are going down but not really falling off a cliff lol.
commander@lemmings.world 5 weeks ago
What are you talking about?
My laptop SSD is 2tb and I got it 3 years ago.
Peffse@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
One step above what I had back in 2012? What exactly does that say about progress in capacity?
commander@lemmings.world 5 weeks ago
It’s twice the amount you were complaining about, and there are bigger drives than the one I have.
Peffse@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
exactly. Thank you.
Back in 2012 an affordable $40 flash drive was 1GB. Now $40 gets you a 512GB.
$90 would have netted you a 2GB full-size SD card. Now you get a 1TB MicroSD with adapter
$80 would get you 1TB in spinning rust in 2012… now, with $80 you get… 1TB or if you stretch the budget a little, 2TB. But what if you own a bunch of games like Ark Survival Evolved that take up 435GB of space? Shell out $649
Back when I bought the 1TB, I installed the entire steam library I owned onto it. Now I can’t get more than 6-7 new titles installed. I’m ignoring how insanely fast drives have gotten over the years, but my complaint is storage.
Godort@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
You can get spinning rust all the way up to 32 TB in a single 3.5" disk and 8 TB in an NVMe drive. The tech is out there, but it takes time for the price of stuff like that to come down when there isnt much demand for it.
Peffse@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I refuse to believe there isn’t much demand for it when we have MicroSD cards approaching 2TB.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I do think the demand decreased in the past decade. The average consumer has their photos and documents in the cloud and signs up to streaming services for movies, shows, and music.
evidences@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
But on the opposite end games are only getting bigger and fast internet is still semi expensive so having large drives would be beneficial to people that want to keep multiple games installed on their PC/console.
Peffse@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
fair point, even the MicroSD market would target the mobile user and not so much a desktop.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
There’s lots of demand for large drives, it’s mostly for enterprise drives though.
ramble81@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
There are 32 and 64TB enterprise SSDs out there now too.