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These are not claims you need to believe, it's overwhelmingly evident that there have been changes in the consumer landscape towards less demand for storage spa
by muyuu 13y ago
These are not claims you need to believe, it's overwhelmingly evident that there have been changes in the consumer landscape towards less demand for storage space above what they already have. People are not filling up their drives as they used to.
The proof is the % share of SSD drives selling in retail. Regardless of the massive difference in cost/GiB. Mor people prefer a faster 250GB drive over a slower 4TB. Because 250GB is still plenty for the average consumer and speedy computing wins the bargain.
- gwern 13y agoIt's evident - but it's a trend which has always been happening, returns are always diminishing. Why are we attributing to this gradual effect the the sudden huge abrupt break in an exponential lasting years which we have observed, rather than say, an abrupt unprecedented flooding crisis affecting experience curves?
- muyuu 13y agoI don't think the effect of the floods is lasting so much. It just so happened that the disruption of SSD started to be noticeable around the same time of the aftermath of the floods. And by floods, I mean the speculative movements they caused rather than the real effect on supply.