I feel like we’re finally starting to get SSD prices close to HDD. Not to mention the capacity. I just saw an 8 TB Samsung for $300. That’s about $37 per TB. A bit more than twice that of most HDD. If we factor in size, power consumption, heat, and performance, that’s still a really good value! Anyone know of a good 5-12 bay enclosure haha.
And in the next couple years, we will likely see SSD in the 10-20 TB range. Hell, 20-50 TB should be plenty for a majority of data hoarder except for the most extreme. In fact, I think you can get most movies and shows in decent quality for around 100 TB. Unless you’re downloading just to be downloading to build that stash, then most will never approach that amount.
SSD’s have been stuck at 4TB for a very long time, the recent lift up to 8TB 2.5" drives is good, but progression to high capacity drives is still going extremely slowly. Drives seem to have stalled at 15.36TB and 30.72TB in the enterprise, so I’m not too hopeful we’ll see consumer drives of similar capacity at consumer price points for another 3-5 years.
The one glimmer of hope though is the announcement of 28TB HDDs that might force SSD manufacturers have to actually try and compete it that might drive some of the enterprise capacity drives and tech into the consumer space sooner.