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Is the flash market a monopoly, or why is price per unit of storage so stagnant in recent years across both HDD and SSD/NVMe when this feat is possible? Flash
by metadat 1y ago
Is the flash market a monopoly, or why is price per unit of storage so stagnant in recent years across both HDD and SSD/NVMe when this feat is possible?
Flash manufacturers not feeling an incentive to compete?
- imtringued 1y agoMaybe you should actually look at the prices before complaining about the rapid decline cost of flash based memory.
- metadat 1y agoI am pretty up to date on the prices, but I'm not sure I understand your comment. Are you able to clarify? For reference, here is a graph of storage prices over time. The observation is flash-based storage plateauing at a significantly higher baseline compared to magnetic. https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1emh1f4/oc_as_requested_pricegb_for_all_drives_over_the/ https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1emh1f4/oc... So it becomes a question of how long will the high baseline hang around with only a few scaled up manufacturers in existence? The top 4 supply the vast majority of the market from a handful of factories: Samsung, SK Hynix, Kioxia, Micron Building a new flash or memory factory is a hugely capital-intensive undertaking. Anyhow, thanks for your reply! Interested in any insights or points I'm missing.