Quote (Rikuo @ Jun 16 2017 02:40am)
SSD prices are shit, They've gone up lately if anything.
Been waiting almost a year now for a decent SSD sale to hit, So I can get a few tb's :cry:
you'll have to wait til everyone moves on to liquid state storage then because they aren't going to suddenly stop buying ssd's otherwise
On top of that there's also a growing shortage in silicon wafers, and these aren't exactly a renewable resource. The only thing we can hope for is that some new tech happens that increases density immensely to bring prices down but that's always a double edged sword, we've been using the current techniques and fabs to produce nand for so long because they've been making it so long that they has good yields. Being able to fit 10x more data on the same amount of wafer is as good as useless if your yields go down 90%, so there's little incentive to pour into r&d right now. xpoint wasn't aimed at consumers.
This post was edited by DCSS on Jun 16 2017 12:48am