• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    11 days ago

    How much would that cost? The 4 TB drives I bought from them remained $500 for years, so I’m not sure even corporations could afford that shit.

    • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      11 days ago

      Probably tens of thousands of dollars and only available to enterprise.

      That being said, eventually SSD sizes (even for consumers) will start approaching a single PB (at first). The HDD in my first PC was 1.5 GB, this was ~1997. These days even entry level smartphones go for ~$150 and tend to have around 64 GB storage.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        11 days ago

        I realize prices go down eventually but I specifically mentioned the example of the 4TB SSDs. I did not specify the time period but last I checked it has been 3 years and those prices hadn’t gone down a dollar

        • cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          5 days ago

          SN850X 4TB is $275 on partpicker so it looks like prices have almost halved. Although I do agree that price/tb hasn’t been decreasing last enough

          • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            5 days ago

            Yeah, I saw similar drops the other day when I checked. It may have been the pandemic keeping them from dropping for a while.