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Re:Seagate Announces 16TB HDD by skykooler on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @03:01PM (#18611871)
Hard drives are cheap because, regardless of capacity, you make a bunch of moving bits and electronics, and then cover a disk with iron oxide and that holds all the data. When manufacturing SSDs, you need to make circuitry for each bit.
Re:Seagate Announces 16TB HDD by officialjunk on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @07:27PM (#18614201)
sounds similar to the CRT to LCD evolution of displays.