That 'cost gap' is completely artificial and supported solely by price-fixing. Remember when LCD panels only dropped in price a few cents a year despite being

That 'cost gap' is completely artificial and supported solely by price-fixing. Remember when LCD panels only dropped in price a few cents a year despite being in tons and tons of products? That was price fixing. The same thing had occurred with RAM in the years before LCD. And it was the same manufacturers involved. This time around, the story is the same. A commodity product that costs almost nothing to produce yet somehow magically never drops in price by anything but the most marginal of amounts. When those manufacturers got busted for price-fixing it only took a couple years before the price of an LCD panel dropped to a quarter of what it was previously, and SSDs will drop even faster. WD might expect the price-fixing will continue for several more years, though. The corrupt South Korean administration dropped their investigation into price-fixing in the NAND market several months back. I don't know what impact that will have on the general international effort to prove the collusion that seems so obvious. I just want a 20TB SSD for $500. It's 2017 and no, that's not too much to ask. They're friggin parallel grids of NAND gates with a bunch of multiplexor/demultiplexors bolted on. All photolithography. I don't need them to be those tiny little M.2 sticks, go ahead and give me one in a friggin 5.25" case. At this point they've gone about a mile past where I got fed up with this crap.