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Except that HDD, SSD storage is getting cheaper quite fast. CPUs and RAM also didn't get more expensive and continues to eat less watts. So I think it's more l
by exyi 5y ago
Except that HDD, SSD storage is getting cheaper quite fast. CPUs and RAM also didn't get more expensive and continues to eat less watts.
So I think it's more like: sorry guys, we ran an analysis and found that when we raise the price, most people won't migrate away and we make more money :]
- Gareth321 5y agoExactly. Prices aren't determined by costs. They're determined by supply and demand. This might indicate demand continues to increase relative to supply.
- exyi 5y agoOr they figured out that demand is inflexible - so it will stay the same even though they double the prize. If the price would be determined by costs, why would their cloud be multiple times more expensive than Hetzner.
- Ygg2 5y ago> Except that HDD, SSD storage is getting cheaper quite fast. The pandemic has global chip manufacturing, but left SSD and HDD untouched? How?
- replygirl 5y agoYour car doesn't need 10 SSDs
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoI don't know details - I don't even know that storage is getting cheaper, haven't been paying attention - but flash chips are, IIRC, way easier to manufacture than current-gen processors; it's plausible that SSDs are escaping being affected the way CPUs/GPUs are.
- cma 5y agoWhen there is a wafer shortage, flash devices can go to more layers rather than more chips. Less cost effective when wafers are cheap, but acts as a buffer as wafers get expensive.
- acdha 5y agoGlobal chip manufacturing isn’t a a single product. Most of the headlines focus on the automakers because they slashed orders at the start of the pandemic, disrupting all of their vendors, and then twisted arms to get capacity back when they saw business didn’t evaporate. If you were competing with that, it sounds like you have had a miserable time. If you’re not, however, things haven’t been so bad - Apple, AMD, Intel, etc. haven’t had the equivalent of those Teslas shipping with missing parts. There has been the pox of cryptocurrency’s ever higher demands for waste affecting GPU buyers but that looks like it’s far more an issue of demand than supply.
- whyoh 5y ago>SSD storage is getting cheaper quite fast I'm not seeing that. In the last 2-3 years prices haven't changed much, when comparing drives of the same performance and warranty. And the best price per TB are still 1TB SSDs, large SSDs are still very expensive.
- londons_explore 5y agoI'm really surprised they don't just cut to the chase... "Existing customers will see prices rise by 10% per year, because we know leaving is hard, and new customers will get a massive discount and loads of free credits. If you migrate in from Amazon we'll pay your final AWS bill for all the data transfer.".
- exyi 5y agoBecause if they said that explicitly, nobody would migrate to them...