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Lexar doubles up the NM790 series SSDs max capacity to 8TB — new drives spotted at retail for approx $1,000 (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 4 weeks ago by vegeta to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

That's the cost of high end bleeding edge tech.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

It’s the cost of greed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This isn't bleeding edge at all. Just put a 15tb drive in a machine the other day and they are a couple years old at this point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Was that a 2280 M.2 drive?

That's what makes this bleeding edge since those drives are so tiny. 15tb in a 2.5" drive is nothing special.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Fair enough it was a 2.5 nvme but 8tb m2 2280 disks have been on the market for literal years. You could get them in PCIe gen 3 ...

The reason it costs so much is because the chip industry is limiting supply again again to drive prices up after a few years of over producing. Not because there is something fancy in this drive.