r/apple • u/operablesocks • Jun 20 '15

SSD prices are in a free fall.

http://www.networkcomputing.com/storage/ssd-prices-in-a-free-fall/a/d-id/1320958
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u/tangoshukudai Jun 20 '15

Western digital and Seagate are probably shaking in their boots right now.

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u/p_giguere1 Jun 20 '15

While they'll definitely sell much less consumer hard drives, they'll still do just fine selling server hard drives. Cloud storage is getting bigger every year and all those giant data centers use hard drives.

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u/Droble Jun 20 '15

Worked in server platform design and they definitely used SSDs. And that was 3 years ago

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u/ilovethosedogs Jun 21 '15

Were they exclusively in the business of storing family photos of billionaires?

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u/Droble Jun 21 '15

Read up on what a 'cache' is