large capacity SSDs for very affordable prices

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I was wondering, when are we going to see like 8TB SSDs for very affordable prices, so everyone could drop mechanical drives and use those, for example for backup storage.
By affordable I mean like 8TB SSD for £300. We have seen 4TB SSDs for £160 year ago. It must change at some point in the future, but when do you guys recon?
 
Think I remember reading about the new Samsung controller for SSDs in their Gen 5 NVMe drives that's coming out later this year I think and it's coming with 8TB drive capacity. So for consumer stuff, that'll likely be the first point of the 8TB drives being available. As for pricing at £300 odd, I doubt that will happen - in all likelihood, it'll be £550-600 for 8TB (due to Gen 5).

If you're thinking of SATA SSD's at 8TB, that's a bigger question, as it looks like most are not continuing development of SATA SSD's and thus we may not reach 8TB capacity SATA drives. Certainly not with onboard DRAM cache anyway.
 
Meddling-Monk said:
Think I remember reading about the new Samsung controller for SSDs in their Gen 5 NVMe drives that's coming out later this year I think and it's coming with 8TB drive capacity. So for consumer stuff, that'll likely be the first point of the 8TB drives being available. As for pricing at £300 odd, I doubt that will happen - in all likelihood, it'll be £550-600 for 8TB (due to Gen 5).

If you're thinking of SATA SSD's at 8TB, that's a bigger question, as it looks like most are not continuing development of SATA SSD's and thus we may not reach 8TB capacity SATA drives. Certainly not with onboard DRAM cache anyway.
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Nvme, SATA was just Samsung's drive, I bought it new from other shop for £280 with discount 2 years ago.

They must drop in price sometime in the future. I remember when I bought my first SSD, first that came out, Vertex 32GB. Paid £230 I think. Compared to £280 I paid for 8TB in 2023 - that is a difference.
So yeah, they must drop at some point, but when - 5 years? 10? I wish this went faster...
 
Meddling-Monk said:
Think I remember reading about the new Samsung controller for SSDs in their Gen 5 NVMe drives that's coming out later this year I think and it's coming with 8TB drive capacity. So for consumer stuff, that'll likely be the first point of the 8TB drives being available. As for pricing at £300 odd, I doubt that will happen - in all likelihood, it'll be £550-600 for 8TB (due to Gen 5).

If you're thinking of SATA SSD's at 8TB, that's a bigger question, as it looks like most are not continuing development of SATA SSD's and thus we may not reach 8TB capacity SATA drives. Certainly not with onboard DRAM cache anyway.
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phinix said:
Nvme, SATA was just Samsung's drive, I bought it new from other shop for £280 with discount 2 years ago.

They must drop in price sometime in the future. I remember when I bought my first SSD, first that came out, Vertex 32GB. Paid £230 I think. Compared to £280 I paid for 8TB in 2023 - that is a difference.
So yeah, they must drop at some point, but when - 5 years? 10? I wish this went faster...
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Well, we did have 8TB SATA SSDs for around £300 about two years ago, but then the prices nearly doubled within a few months and still haven't returned to those levels. Not saying it's price fixing, but... yeah.
 
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Tythus said:
Well, we did have 8TB SATA SSDs for around £300 about two years ago, but then the prices nearly doubled within a few months and still haven't returned to those levels. Not saying it's price fixing, but... yeah.
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yeah, I bought one back then, with some discount code it was £280.
 
If I remember right, those prices were when they overproduced for SSDs so everything was cheaper. Their normal intended pricing is basically what we have now. So getting them back down to such prices outside of any special saves would likely need 2 more years for them to expand to 12TB and/or 16TB to then push the 8TB drives down to £300 odd and then have more discounts to reach that old price. So probably another 3 years away for normalised pricing of 8TB at £250-300.
 
8tb sn850x currently £465 on US rain forest (they are about £650 over here), but it has £133 import tax. We get ripped off in the UK .

You can get 4tb for less than £200, so really 8tb should be less than £400
 
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It isn't just about prices when it comes to bulk backup storage - mechanical HDDs have much higher unpowered data retention lifetime and easier to recover data from if they fail.
 
Varys said:
8tb sn850x currently £465 on US rain forest (they are about £650 over here), but it has £133 import tax. We get ripped off in the UK .

You can get 4tb for less than £200, so really 8tb should be less than £400
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The 8TB WD SN850X is currently available for £530 if you buy two.

You also have to factor in to any price comparison that US prices don't include sales tax where ours do.
 
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The 8TB WD SN850X is currently available for £530 if you buy two.

You also have to factor in to any price comparison that US prices don't include sales tax where ours do.
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With the high tariffs US has now there pricing should now be inline with ours if it's not it shows again rip off Britain.
 
Sounds like its best to have huge external HDD right now for storage, before moving to SSD solutions - good 2-3 years from now, like you guys aid.
Its a shame, as SSD should be pushed more and get cheaper faster.
 
It shouldn't be as long as HDDs progression in the past. They just made smallest memory chips that could raise the capacity of SSDs 3x times at least.
I hope that 4GB will become a standard in a year or two, then 8TB would be mass produced and common like 2TB SSD are now.
 
It will be a game changer when they do finally get down to at least close price parity with mechanical. Think of all the space/power/heat savings it would bring for server and rack mount solutions. Even for home server it would be cool to be able to run an matx case with a load of storage. I'm disappointed it has taken so long actually. I didn't expect us to be in 2025 with such high prices still. :(
 
jaybee said:
It will be a game changer when they do finally get down to at least close price parity with mechanical. Think of all the space/power/heat savings it would bring for server and rack mount solutions. Even for home server it would be cool to be able to run an matx case with a load of storage. I'm disappointed it has taken so long actually. I didn't expect us to be in 2025 with such high prices still. :(
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I am too! I remember 80s and 90s when we had like 20MB HDDs, but every year capacity was growing in geometric scale, new sizes becoming standard very quickly.
Nowadays I was expecting that SSDs would progress even faster as being such an amazing technology! I'm sure that there is a group of people who likes to keep data, whatever it is, so demand for 4TB or 8TB capcity would be high. I personally collect movies, tv shows, audiobooks, games - 8TB is already full, would need another one for a backup. Nowadays when new game can be over 100GB, average gamer will have 4TB drive for sure.
 
been using 8 tb nvme ssd since 2022, another sata 8tb less than that

Prices have not moved since. 8 tb still costs the same, no larger consumer models available at all

Don't care about pcie5 speeds one bit, just give me capacity with seek speeds and latency of a sata ssd.
 
alec said:
been using 8 tb nvme ssd since 2022, another sata 8tb less than that

Prices have not moved since. 8 tb still costs the same, no larger consumer models available at all

Don't care about pcie5 speeds one bit, just give me capacity with seek speeds and latency of a sata ssd.
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thats exactly what I want. I dont need super speeds, for storage or backups, SATA SSD speeds are enough. I just want capacity.
Even if I had option to RAID them - get cheap 1TB m.2 and shove them in some kiind of raid caddy, but I would need like 8 of them :)
 
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I'm the same, for me i would like the seek time of SSD, but dont need the transfer rate of the latest and greatest standard. ( nor do many folk really to be really honest ) but it just seems like solid state has stalled a little in terms of increasing size vs cost.

I think its also limited / hindered or kept artificially high possibly by pcie lane availability ... or lack there of on average machines. The companies know you're limited to what you can install on default machines. If you were able to install many many devices into pcie, then you'd be able to create more demand to bring down prices. But as it stands, you need pci switch cards and expense to do that. ( Compared to sata where you can easily add more drive connectors. )
 
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