Why are ssds so fuckin expensive?

Better question: why are you so fucking poor?

>>60168087
Ryzen

>>60168087
>tfw got a brand new intel 520 240gb for $55 off CL 2 years ago.

wish my current area had deals like that.

>>60168087

you must be really young. SSD's are so fucking cheap now. I remember when SSD's started hitting the market they were in the hundreds of dollars for a measly 64GB.

>>60168098
Because we have corrupted government?

>>60168087
Пepecтaнь быть бoмжoм. Hy и зaoднo yeбывaй в нюфaня-тpeд.

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Expensive is a relative term.

>>60168087
supply and demand anon.
Also:
>oh its a 1000 gb drive, it has more memory so it must be better than that 256 gig drive.

You need big numbers to convince normies that SSDs are superior. Perhaps the high speeds of NVMe may help.

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I bought my 840 Evo 750GB 3 years ago for $400 on Amazon. What do you mean by "expensive" son

>>60168087
It's not so much the price as it is the fact that they haven't been getting cheaper for the past few years now.

>>60168202
normies don't really care about gigaplops per minute

>>60168148
That's not the reason you're poor.

>>60168227
1tb ssd was $90 6 months ago

>>60168202
You're underestimating the normie vidya game crowd. Think of all those WoW players who want shorter loading screens.

They are ex0ensive because there is a high demand of it in the laptop and cellphone market

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>not buying an SSD to upgrade your HDD 6 months ago
WAITFAGS BTFO

>>60168324
It's been that way for enough years by now that production could've been increased to compensate. There's more money that way too, so if they're not doing it it must mean that the manufacturing failure rate on SSDs must still be fairly high.

>>60168286
What fucking planet do you live on? Cheapest a 1TB SSD has been new in the last two years was about $260 USD.

>>60168274
What's the reason then?

>>60168087
>phone manufacturers move away from micro sd and start using their own large flash storage
>flash storage now in massive demand
>factories busy churning out parts for phones with one tiny conveyer belt with SSDs for autists
>prices go way up as a result

Phones ruin everything in tech.

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>>60168087
>eastern european tries to buy 1st world goods
>complains about price

>>60168433
Phones are only now coming with 64gb-128gb as standard and not as some luxury edition. As standard. This drives up demand and price.

>Falling for the SSD meme
You deserve everything you get, OP.

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>>60168713

>>60168143
I still have a 120GB OCZ that I paid $250 for

surprisingly it still works

>€

Disregarded and filtered.

>>60168785
Your opinion is very important for us

Samsung, Hynix, and Micron make up like 90~95% of all DRAM/NAND manufacturing. All of them are moving their manufacturing process to newer fabrications (from 30nm to 20nm), this is slowing production.

>>60168725
don't try to understand poorfags

>>60168679
We get it cheaper than Germans ya dunce.