I haven't bought a hard drive or an SSD in at least a decade (I get stuff for free, basically) but…that seems a bit high, right?
Seems like well-rated consumer-level SSDs cost around $250 for 1TB right now.
What accounts for the premium price/TB of these extremely high capacity enterprise-targeted drives?
Spare capacity, mostly. That’s why they have higher endurance. If you want to double the endurance of a given drive, tell the controller to allocate twice as many spare blocks and report less capacity than you would otherwise.
In this case, you are also paying a premium for the PCIe attachment instead of SAS, and a lot for price elasticity. You see, with drives like these you slash space and energy consumption in relation to HDDs by a large number, and that allows you to pay a premium for the device, because, at the end of its lifetime, it’ll have more than covered the cost difference in saved space and energy.
The word "enterprise".
https://www.opencompute.org/documents/datacenter-nvme-ssd-sp...
They’re currently selling for $942.72 on Amazon.
The price graphs of these are wild, wow. https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0CHGT1KFJ
Looks like prices for NAND spiked at the end of last year, a couple of months behind DRAM.
Happy not to be building or buying any new computers these days.
The extremely high capacity and the enterprise targeting.
surely you don't actually think that's realistic pricing?
It is very real, that is the price they quote. You can buy it through Dell at that price.
3.84TB SSD SAS ISE, Read Intensive, up to 24Gbps 512e 2.5in with 3.5in HYB CARR, AG Drive
Dell Price $8,825.13 /ea.
3.84TB SSD SATA Read Intensive 6Gbps 512e 2.5in Hot-plug AG Drive,3.5in HYB CARR, 1 DWPD
Dell Price $7,893.91 /ea.
3.2TB Enterprise NVMe Mixed Use AG Drive U.2 with carrier
Dell Price $6,596.39 /ea.