A great counter for why production hasn't increased (spoiler: because the manufactures got burnt before).
No doubt. Back in the day, the HDD market was notorious for booms, busts, and profit margins thinner than the oxide layer on the platters.
Supply has also got to be tight. Manufacturers are going to tightly plan production to keep costs in line, thus making it hard to rapidly ramp up production. In those circumstances, even a small shift in demand can lead to large jumps in price.
I used to work for an enterprise storage company making secondary storage devices (that is, destinations for backups). High capacity and low cost were the selling points (and write performance and reliability, but those don't figure in here).
For the last 15 years, the shift in the enterprise storage industry has been to SSDs for everything, just like for home use. Around the coffee machine, we talked about how secondary storage was the last industry segment which still used spinning rust. Last I checked, ev
SSDs are currently around 8x more expensive per TB when you scale up in capacity. The gap closed quickly but it seems like it's settling into a plateau...
At low enough demand, you are on the floor where you might as well do SSD, and in many applications the SSD performance is worth it, but if you need capacity and not too picky about performance, then HDD still wins in cost effectiveness by a wide margin.
HDDs are still the most cost effective solution for large storage arrays that don't need particularly fast random data access, although putting an SSD in front of the drive array to act as a cache can make even some of those workloads viable. I think the issue has been more that the size of the array where that becomes a significant enough cost difference to offset the "screw it, let's just go all-in on SSD" has been increasing rapidly.
For instance, it used to be that media creatives would have a SSD fo
A great counter for why production hasn't increased (spoiler: because the manufactures got burnt before).
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A great counter for why production hasn't increased (spoiler: because the manufactures got burnt before).
No doubt. Back in the day, the HDD market was notorious for booms, busts, and profit margins thinner than the oxide layer on the platters.
Supply has also got to be tight. Manufacturers are going to tightly plan production to keep costs in line, thus making it hard to rapidly ramp up production. In those circumstances, even a small shift in demand can lead to large jumps in price.
I used to work for an enterprise storage company making secondary storage devices (that is, destinations for backups). High capacity and low cost were the selling points (and write performance and reliability, but those don't figure in here).
For the last 15 years, the shift in the enterprise storage industry has been to SSDs for everything, just like for home use. Around the coffee machine, we talked about how secondary storage was the last industry segment which still used spinning rust. Last I checked, ev
SSDs are currently around 8x more expensive per TB when you scale up in capacity. The gap closed quickly but it seems like it's settling into a plateau...
At low enough demand, you are on the floor where you might as well do SSD, and in many applications the SSD performance is worth it, but if you need capacity and not too picky about performance, then HDD still wins in cost effectiveness by a wide margin.
For instance, it used to be that media creatives would have a SSD fo