probably wont see alot of SSD expansions in the upcoming years

similarly to ram expansions.

WD 5 tb good reliable HDD been using them for years

I'm not going back to 3 to 5 minute load times.

WD Black 7200RPM, 128mb cache, 6TB, great HDD at awesome sale prices. the old Samsung 870 EVO is still priced the same as it always has been and still in production? Maybe it is just a large back-stock but Samsung is still selling those SATA SSD's.

Think the proper SSD per TB pricing goes 1.25TB/1.5TB for every $100 USD or so.

Back to the roots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivj2eJeC2wM

Originally posted by Bing Chilling:

probably wont see alot of SSD expansions in the upcoming years

similarly to ram expansions.

Don't be absurd, China and the rest are building more capacity and the technology continues to advance, all built on older nodes so its hardly limited by cutting edge EUV equipment.

Micron exiting the consumer market doesn't mean their capacity stops existing, they are still serving the market on the other end alleviating supply.

Originally posted by Alice Liddell:

WD Black 7200RPM, 128mb cache, 6TB, great HDD at awesome sale prices. the old Samsung 870 EVO is still priced the same as it always has been and still in production? Maybe it is just a large back-stock but Samsung is still selling those SATA SSD's.

Think the proper SSD per TB pricing goes 1.25TB/1.5TB for every $100 USD or so.

26TB was going for about 250 over black friday.
https://slickdeals.net/f/18868288-seagate-expansion-26tb-usb-3-0-desktop-hard-drive-stkp26000400-black-249-99

I have stopped mirroring SSDs and now just schedule backup to a large harddrive using freefilesync, but I have 22TB of SSD so I'll be fine for a while.

There's no disputing ssds are faster / better, but hdds have improved over the years. I wouldn't put Starfield or Cyberpunk on a hdd, but Mass Effect Legendary Edition and Middle Earth Shadow of War both work fine on a hdd. Once a program has been cached by Windows, load times aren't too bad either.

8TB Seagate Firecuda 7200rpm, 256mb cache
The CrystalDiskMark test showed a max read of 260MB/s

It’s been going up…I bought 12tb HDD last year for $90, then it’s $190 now..

Originally posted by fourfourtwo79:

Back to the roots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivj2eJeC2wM

Tape archival systems are still in use, but pretty expensive.

I'd just get a raid enclosure.

Regular mechanical drives still good for storage and keeping media content file/backups.

Using them for active apps/games/os though bad idea but thats why you prioritize space on your SSDs/M.2 drives.

most of the worlds info is still on HD......they just have a SSD front side to deal with day to day before its cached......

as for new stuff.....there are more then a few drives out there able to hit 550 of sata from running multi platters with read and write heads on both sides of each plater running internal raid

i still have a bunch of spinning rust.....over 8TB on a bunch of old drives....but the gaming rig is almost nothing but SSD.....

HDD manufacturing capacity is not exactly high anymore either, probably gone rise in price as well.

whats next?
Floppy disks and CD ROMs?

glad I have hoarded quite a few 1-2TB ssds both nvme and sata
just wish Ive bought a few 4tb too

No, because drive capacity has rapidly scaled far beyond the average persons needs, we are at 36TB now, 40TB next year, 50TB after that.

The average person doesn't need much, so its just a few data hoarders vs the enterprise market.

Me sat there with 96TB in HDD's, they went away?