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When will we get larger (and cheaper) SSDs though?

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Have you not noticed that SSD prices have dropped by almost half the last 6-8 months?

I can get the same SSD I bought in February for literally half the cost today.

You can get larger drives. 4TB has pretty high availability. If you want more, you can go server grade U.2 and get 8-32TB SSD - you will pay more though.

I’m thinking larger than 4TB. There’s still just the 8TB Samsung QVO available in the consumer space. You are right that prices have improved.

Sabrent has a 8TB M.2 as well. It's expensive.

Enterprise space can be reasonable to look at.

7.68TB $400, similar to the QVO but much better quality flash and interface.

https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/solid-state-drives/p...

It is U.2, so you'll need an adapter.

Over 570 € ($615) in Europe, unfortunately.

Unless you are constrained in space, getting one of those relatively cheap multi M.2 PCIe x16 cards is a good option.

16 TB enterprise SSDs are only 50% more expensive than consumer and used ones are even cheaper.

This. I want cheap M2 size 16+TB SSDs and a nice blade for ZFS

Next year. It's always next year. Price is dictated by how much one is willing to pay, which is somewhat tied to how much financial value one can extract from it.

I need SSD that doesn’t degrade like opteron to come back with higher capacity. The total bytes written indicator is the bane of my existence.

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