SSD Prices in a Free Fall

Re:SSD Prices in a Free Fall by jegutman on Monday June 22, 2015 @02:40PM (#9760319)

Ah zeno's paradox. When the SSD matches the HDD price, in 28.5 months, the HDD will have moved, and so on and so on. Although at some point they'll probably just make many many fewer HDDs so the price will stop moving much.

For any storage experts, will HDD still be preferable for long-term cold storage or are those even currently an unacceptable solution? Seems like cold storage might end up being more important over time. I guess AWS Glacier is <$1 per TB per month which is pretty cheap and can presumably even fall over time. I have no idea what the reliability of these services is though.

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Re:SSD Prices in a Free Fall by otisfunkmeyer on Monday June 22, 2015 @02:57PM (#9760426)

if im not mistaken, amazon glacier is $10 per TB per month at 0.01 per GB per month stated price. please correct me if something has changed!

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Re:SSD Prices in a Free Fall by jegutman on Monday June 22, 2015 @03:12PM (#9760534)

Ah you're right.

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Re:SSD Prices in a Free Fall by dzhiurgis on Monday June 22, 2015 @08:56PM (#9762111)

Perhaps this is too simplistic, but I think it should be cheaper to build solid-state chip than mechanical device.

But this also reminds me LCD / CRT wars. LCDs were promised to be cheaper, but it took years to amortize the setup costs, but we got there eventually.

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Re:SSD Prices in a Free Fall by kibibu on Monday June 22, 2015 @07:23PM (#9761774)

> Although at some point they'll probably just make many many fewer HDDs so the price will stop moving much

At this point prices will go up again.

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