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'The retail SSD market has almost disappeared,' says Silicon Motion exec; OEMs are buying third-party drives as direct NAND supply dries up (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 47 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I still have my price watcher for 8TB 2.5” drives at $320, intending to buy them when they fell to that price again.

Almost exactly 3 years later they are $1,440 during a sale.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

    Last year, one of the executives where I work decided they wanted an 8 terabyte SSD, and we bought them one, and it was like $800, and we were like, man, that is crazy. That's a halfway good deal for an 8 terabyte SSD.

    Literally two months later, I remembered that and I was like, you know, I have a little extra money in the budget. I might want to upgrade. Yeah, it was like $1,800.

    If the guy ever takes his eyes off his laptop for more than 20 minutes, I may swap him out for a two terabyte and just act confused when I don't know what happened.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I almost bought a 4TB for ~$400.
    Wish i would have—now a 16g flash drive is that much.

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