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As a non-observer, what timescales are we talking about here? These statements don't mean much without context. The last storage price spike I recall was the gr
by _wmd 9y ago
As a non-observer, what timescales are we talking about here? These statements don't mean much without context. The last storage price spike I recall was the great 2011 Thailand flood. Have there been fluctuations the common man should know about since then?
- wtallis 9y agoRoughly: a flash memory shortage started in late 2016 when everybody but Samsung was having trouble transitioning to 3D NAND flash memory, and Samsung was having trouble with their third generation of 3D NAND. All of the flash memory manufacturers are now producing 64-layer or higher 3D NAND and prices have been coming down for a few months, but they're still higher than 2015 prices.
- ksec 9y agoI think stabilize is a better word, I hardly call a few percentage changes "coming down"
- wtallis 9y agoConsumer SSD prices are absolutely trending down. Everyday Amazon and Newegg prices are slightly better than the Black Friday/holiday sales of four months ago.
- ksec 9y agoStrange the NAND price didn't drop that much. Weak demands of SSD? *NAND price and SSD price never quite trend together or match up.
- zootam 9y agoi paid $75 for a decent 240gb SSD back in 2014. The price for a similarly decent 240gb SSD is still around $75 today. Back then I thought 512gb/480gb would be available for $75 in 2017.
- jpalomaki 9y agoCapacity is the same, but how about durability of performance of those drives?
- rasz 9y agoWorse nowadays. Every new process shrinks nand cells, on top of that we are on TLC everything now, while 5 years ago huge SLC chips were norm. Good 2012 drive was Samsung 830 surviving 10 Petabytes, nowadays consumer drives are expected to survive ~100TB.