Yeah, for sure! I think you'll see 2TB/$200 from multiple vendors by black friday of this year.
Mechanical hard drives have a "price floor" of about $40 regardless of capacity, because there's a base cost to the motor and bearings and stuff. SSDs have no such components, so their prices can fall into USB-flash-drive territory, as we're currently seeing with the 60GB units for $20-30.
Expect the 120GB SSDs to be kissing $30 by the end of 2018, and the 240's will be in the $40-50 "I don't know what to put into this build so i'm throwing $40 at an SSD" category.
Yeah, for sure! I think you'll see 2TB/$200 from multiple vendors by black friday of this year.
Mechanical hard drives have a "price floor" of about $40 regardless of capacity, because there's a base cost to the motor and bearings and stuff. SSDs have no such components, so their prices can fall into USB-flash-drive territory, as we're currently seeing with the 60GB units for $20-30.
Expect the 120GB SSDs to be kissing $30 by the end of 2018, and the 240's will be in the $40-50 "I don't know what to put into this build so i'm throwing $40 at an SSD" category.
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Mechanical hard drives have a "price floor" of about $40 regardless of capacity, because there's a base cost to the motor and bearings and stuff. SSDs have no such components, so their prices can fall into USB-flash-drive territory, as we're currently seeing with the 60GB units for $20-30.
Expect the 120GB SSDs to be kissing $30 by the end of 2018, and the 240's will be in the $40-50 "I don't know what to put into this build so i'm throwing $40 at an SSD" category.
It's a glorious time to make an SSD array. :)
Mechanical hard drives have a "price floor" of about $40 regardless of capacity, because there's a base cost to the motor and bearings and stuff. SSDs have no such components, so their prices can fall into USB-flash-drive territory, as we're currently seeing with the 60GB units for $20-30.
Expect the 120GB SSDs to be kissing $30 by the end of 2018, and the 240's will be in the $40-50 "I don't know what to put into this build so i'm throwing $40 at an SSD" category.
It's a glorious time to make an SSD array. :)
Mechanical hard drives have a "price floor" of about $40
I'll be happy to pay $40 for a 10TB Mechanical drive.
As long as it's not Seagate.
Thank you!