[amluto]

> For example "3.2TB Enterprise NVMe Mixed Use AG Drive U.2 Gen4 with carrier" is $3,301.65 each

That’s the pricing for people who don’t know to ask for real pricing — it’s an absolute joke. I don’t know how might extra margin gets captured here, but it’s a lot.

Even in teeny tiny volumes, Dell will give something closer to real pricing, and a decent heuristic is that it’s at least 2x cheaper.

This is a real SSD. Dell likely buys this brand and others:

https://www.serversupply.com/SSD/NVMe/30.72TB/KIOXIA/KCMY1RU...

Yes, that is almost an order of magnitude cheaper per TiB. If you buy from a sketchier vendor, you’ll get all the way to 10x :)

[1123581321]

Doesn’t Oxide also negotiate pricing?

[Temporary_31337]

And they keep the margin to have money for R&D. I kind of get it because it’s low volume for now but I don’t necessarily see the appeal of being an early adopter here.

[panick21_]

The appeal is that your a buying into an open infrastructure system, rather then closed firmware and VMWare (now owned by ... Broadcom).

[bnprks]

Thanks for the link, and very good to know. I've always struggled to find component prices for Kioxia drives and higher-capacity RAM sticks so it's good to see I can finally look these up on serversupply when I'm curious.