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Apart from the fact that's not logical at all - its completely irrelevant
Cheap 32gb phones are practically given away these days they are so cheap. Which means the storage used is even cheaper
It should be relatively simple to put 8 chips into a 3 1/2 " drive and market it for peanuts (even as a Chinese knockoff)
You do understand that eMMC packages aren't the same thing that's in an SSD, right?
Cheap, low quality non-ssd grade flash dies paired with ultra basic 1 channel controllers with the host being done on the SoC directly. It's not hard to see why the 'storage' costs are so cheap in those phones.