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That's super interesting, enjoyed reading it. I am pondering of getting a good future-proof server Soon™ but I have my doubts about how cheap (or awfully expen
by pdimitar 5y ago
That's super interesting, enjoyed reading it.
I am pondering of getting a good future-proof server Soon™ but I have my doubts about how cheap (or awfully expensive) this is going to be so I will likely settle for a refurbished Xeon E5 workstation (since I'd like less noise and the ability to cram it full of HDDs/SSDs).
I wonder if the coming of this new-age SSDs will herald a price drop in the classic 2.5" SSDs? I don't believe so because they will be viable for a long time in the future still but I am curious to hear other people's perspective?
What do you guys and girls think?
- jlawer 5y agoMarkets like web hosting will eat any discounted 2.5” enterprise SSDs. Don’t even mention stuff like chia. There is such a large market for 2.5” storage that I don’t think we are going to have a large discounted sell off, unlike say DDR4 ECC DIMMs
- ksec 5y agoI really really wish I am wrong, but nothing in the current NAND industry roadmap ( known knowns ) and future technology improvement ( known unknowns ) suggest NAND's cost /bit will get substantially cheaper. Cheapest 2.5" 2TB SSD currently goes for about ~$180. Even something like sub $100 will be hard to achieve before 2026. Barring over supply of NAND which causes price to drop to irregular level. Speed on the other hand seems to be limited by controller and interconnect. We should see a PCI-E 6.0 SSD capable of ~30GB/s and I wont be surprised if PCI-E 7.0 are already shipping by 2026. Most price projection on SSD vs HDD cost uses TCO ( Total Cost of ownership ), which includes power and workload generally speaking flavours SSD. I dont know about others but I only care about cost / GB.