SSDs now cost 16x more than HDDs due to AI supply chain crisis — hybrid SSD + HDD datacenter deployments are now significantly cheaper to deploy than SSD-only equivalents

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SSDs now cost 16x more than HDDs due to AI supply chain crisis — hybrid SSD + HDD datacenter deployments are now significantly cheaper to deploy than SSD-only equivalents (www.tomshardware.com)

Fucking make it stop already.

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>The memory/NAND flash shortage is continuing to chew up the storage market without mercy. VDURA reports (from Blocks and Files) that SSD prices are now a whopping 16 times greater than HDDs, making hybrid storage deployments with SSDs and HDDs mixed together significantly cheaper and more financially stable than SSD-only setups for datacenters.

Fucking make it stop already. Archive: https://archive.today/KEWi8 From the post: >>The memory/NAND flash shortage is continuing to chew up the storage market without mercy. VDURA reports (from Blocks and Files) that SSD prices are now a whopping 16 times greater than HDDs, making hybrid storage deployments with SSDs and HDDs mixed together significantly cheaper and more financially stable than SSD-only setups for datacenters.