While I love there thought, I’m not going to hold my breath on replacing my 880 TB of spinning platters with SSDs.
hark@lemmy.world 5 months ago
These companies need to get smacked upside the head. Hard drives would be pretty much completely obsoleted if SSDs hit the prices that they should if we had proper competition instead of the “competition” to keep prices up that this memory cartel loves to keep up. My only hope is for another player to come in and dump cheap product onto the market like Japan did in the 80s.
hips_and_nips@lemmy.world 5 months ago
fugacity@kbin.social 5 months ago
Maybe it's a cartel but I don't have my hopes up. Storage technology is only getting more complicated and the number of players is only decreasing.
In my view (and maybe I'm wrong) there's just not that much money to be made in it, contrary to what consumers think. Why fight each other over pennies when you can both earn dollars? Maybe if China figures things out, but you can be my ass I'm not gonna trust a CCP backed storage company lol
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Honestly I was getting scared we’d start seeing a really bad market crash with companies consolidating and going bankrupt left and right with how hard SSD prices crashed. Since that didn’t happen there’s at least still (an illusion of) competition
Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hdd wont be obsolete for awhile. They’re the best media to store large libraries cost effectively. Until there are 10+TB SSDS with reasonable prices, many people with home storage systems won’t upgrade. Not shelling out $10k for SSDS, sorry.
MaxHardwood@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
That’s what they said though…
Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world 5 months ago
yes.
hark@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Lower end 4TB SSDs were around $130 a while back (summer or fall of last year). I bought an 8TB hard drive for about $100 around that time since I just wanted archival storage. Since then, prices for both SSDs and HDDs have gone up. Still, I think for most people 4TB should be more than enough and I have a feeling that prices could’ve gone even lower back then but they want to keep prices high and they also want to keep segmentation between HDDs and SSDs instead of erasing most of the market for HDDs.
Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, I had 4tbs for only about a year. upgraded this summer to 4 8TB.