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SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the market (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

oh shit, you might be right, this might actually make HDDs more affordable as flash starts to catch up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I doubt it will be this much. But at least it could lower the price, assuming it's not already a thin margin for the manufacturers, and they will instead resort to using SMR instead of CMR

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

High capacity SMR drives are already a special hell, those wont get much market share for the average HDD use case outside of archival usage, which might be the intent to begin with lol. I believe SMR drives are already cheaper anyway, not sure how much that is due to R&D and production or just existing in a special market space right now, but it's one of them.