SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the market

just in time for GTA6 to come out and be 3TB in size

And Apple will finally sell the iPhone starting with 256GB

The prices will stay the same. Manufacturers will just make more profit.

Yet apple will still charge $200 for 128gb

32 level "PLC" cells, OMG. How about staying at levels with some durability.

Amazing news! Unfortunately, if this comes to Brazil and 8tb SSD would be the price of a car

More density means less longevity, less write cycles before the blocks wear out, also decreases the time before Nand leakage can end up corrupting the data. Doesn't seem like a good thing to me.

Oh yeah, also more storage space causes complacency with developers who will terribly optimize their games because they don't have to worry about games not fitting on people's disks. Think 100GB games is bad it'll get much worse when they got more free space at their disposal, and worse, the perception that their customers have tons of free space as well.

Excellent, I needed more space for cookies, malware and games that suddenly require 500GB of free space. I'll have that thing full in no time.

Good news but it'll be a while before I can replace the 20TB drives in my NAS with these.

Soon the new COD will weigh 5TB

I'll believe it when I see it. 4TB SSDs are still not affordable.

I'm all for it, and it's just the usual "moores law" trend, I just wonder if we won't hit a wall where (most!) users just won't need it?

"Could"

I'm already avoiding buying newer SSDs because the durability is dropping off a cliff.

I'm sure we will get some "random" fire at some factory to drive prices up again.

That's likely the point where spinning platters die in the marketplace.

Right now, spinning platters are around $12/tb. SSDs are around $75. Exact numbers fluctuate with features and market changes, but those are the ballpark. Cut in half, SSDs will be $38/tb, and then $19 in the next halving. Spinning platters aren't likely to see the same level of reduction in that time period; they're a mature technology.

I think once they reach double the price per tb, we'll see a major collapse of the hard drive market. My thinking is that there's a lot of four drive RAID 10 systems out there. With SSDs, those can be two drive RAID 1, and will still be faster. With half the drives, they can be twice the price and work out the same.

are HDDs finally dying?

might wanna make sure they have sufficient emf shielding

daamn 1 TB in 2029 now ay

Probably being paranoid, but it seems to me like one of the few untapped utilities of this much cheap storage is just increased surveillance. Hi resolution recording of everything, all the time.

That will be helpful. Unless I want to prune my node, I should probably consider upgrading my storage space for my Monero node in the near future anyway.