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SD cards expected to hit 4TB in 2025
- ggm 3y agoThere is a price/cost disjoin in SSD media, where the unit cost of 2tb and 4tb in either format (m.2 or the sata drive form factor) is stuck. I have 2tb or 4tb in my eye but they refused to come down in price, instead moving horizontally into new physical card form and speed, where anyone like me looking to replace spinning rust is more price conscious. 2tb ssd media remains at the price it was a year or 18 months ago. It hasn't dropped much. They're fine in racks. They're fine as single high value drives. They can't yet replace 4 hard drives in a home raid set at a price point where you couldn't double space if you stayed mechanical. So you have to be very strongly drawn away from discs to build to ssd. It may be supply chain issues or contention for output from the fab lines but i suspect its also "priced to what the market will pay"