large capacity SSDs for very affordable prices

[phinix]

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?

 

[phinix]

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.

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...

 

[phinix]

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.

yeah, I bought one back then, with some discount code it was £280.

 

[phinix]

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.