Can't be the exact cost of a drive, you have to market research to buy the best for the system. Then marketing etc. Cost are never just hardware for a corpo, but yeah in a dream world corpo should not be evil. If it is the same producer of disk I may be wrong, though one the part you pay for research of the best sdd.

Margin helps account for support, returns, and short term cost increases. You think anything beyond zero is unfair?

I am, because I think every body have to get paid. And if you are considering corpo should give us money you don't understand corpo well enough, even the nicest corpo is still a corpo. Can't trust any company which isn't a cooperative, I seen corpo change leader and destroy their strong points often enough . And another guy made a good argument that it would be considering building a monopoly. Game seller which build a machine cheaper than any conccurence which can easily run it's store.