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Re:Micron rolls out 276-layer SSD trio for speed, scale, and... by ggm on Sunday August 03, 2025 @01:42AM (#44774334)
We're nowhere near floor cost in SSD because the cost of the PCB and controller is cents.

We're not even tracking the chipcost for the storage. There's no linear function between them in terms of numbers, or die space.

The price is just "the price"

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Re:Micron rolls out 276-layer SSD trio for speed, scale, and... by elchananHaas on Sunday August 03, 2025 @01:52AM (#44774380)
Not true. High end controllers need DRAM for caching indexes. That's at least a few dollars.

Flash storage is a commodity, we are paying close to the amortized cost of manufactured and sales.

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Re:Micron rolls out 276-layer SSD trio for speed, scale, and... by ggm on Sunday August 03, 2025 @02:20AM (#44774490)
Mate, if you think we're paying amortised costs you either work in American pharma or marketing. We're paying fat shareholder returns.

"A few dollars" forsooth. My 2TB SSD cost $150 AUD and was (I believe) immensely profitable to everyone down the supply chain. The same spend gets you 16GB of packaged DDR ram and I think we can both see there is no linear relationship between the DDR chip cost, in GB and the 100x denser storage needed for SLC flash. This is not about vlsi density or number of chips. I'm not paying $15,000 more for my SSD.

"The prices are the prices"

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Re:Micron rolls out 276-layer SSD trio for speed, scale, and... by fh973 on Sunday August 03, 2025 @07:47AM (#44775905)
An SSD with 2TB flash typically contains 2GB RAM for lookup tables.
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Re:Micron rolls out 276-layer SSD trio for speed, scale, and... by AtlasBarfed on Sunday August 03, 2025 @12:12PM (#44777547)
We are talking about Samsung and Micron here?
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