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by didgetmaster 681 days ago
I agree. The price difference between SSD storage and HDD per TB is still a multiple (seems to be currently about 5x). That is better than the 10x it was a few years ago; but I don't expect them to be equivalent any time soon.
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Dylan16807 681 days ago
What numbers are you looking at for 5x?

Making sure I'm looking at new hard drives, I see prices around $15/TB at the cheap end. There are a few name-brand SSDs at $45/TB, many more at $50/TB. They're not high end but even the low end is fast these days.

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didgetmaster 681 days ago
Just like SSDs are $50 at the cheap end; I have seen HDD at $10 on the cheap end.
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Dylan16807 681 days ago
Definitely new ones? When and where? I keep an eye on prices and I've never seen that.
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didgetmaster 680 days ago
Although the ads I saw claimed to be new drives, I have no way to verify that they are not refurbished. Of course, I don't know if the $50 per tb SSDs are reliable either.
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