>>107109567 (OP)
never. will always be far cheaper to produce electromechanical hard drives because making flash chips is expensive.
>>107110206
probably a fair bit of market collusion between chip makers but let's just say everyone was doing mate's rates for chips to companies making ssd/hd, the hd is still comes out being cheaper per tb. we'll still be dealing with hd's in decades to come. every few years some manufacturer is able to pump out several more terabyte in one hd.
God I wish the trajectory on that graph was true. Hard drive prices have been hovering around the same rate and even increasing these last few years it's fucked up. That combined with the SMR plague has made buying drives for servers fucking hellish.
>>107109567 (OP)
It's been 20 years of us being promised that SSDs will reach competitive prices.
Yet all your data is still on HDDs. Be it your own HDD or the HDD in someone elses computer (the cloud).
>>107110483
This.
The HDDs with the lowest shekels per TB are enterprise things with decent reliability that are expensive, but have high capacity.
The SSDs with the lowest shekels per TB are no-name brands you never heard off that die after a year in an unpredictable manner.
