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It doesn't help that the flash manufacturers seem to be colluding on price and want to keep the cost of SSDs artificially high. Gotta make those margins! See recent DDR4 pricing issues for an example.

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It's not like hard drive companies didn't do this in the past. The Thailand flood was the excuse they all used to jack up prices and enjoy some healthy profits.

I've been complaining that there's no such thing as a low-capacity (32-64GB SSD) for $40 (or whatever) for a couple of years now.

Sure there is.

https://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Power-Endurance-Free-download...

https://www.amazon.com/KingDian-Internal-Solid-Desktop-Lapto...

And, if you spend a little more, SanDisk will sell you a 120GB for $64:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LY5ZZ4P/

Watch Newegg deals. I'm pretty sure I've got some <$50 120GB SanDisk SSDs there.

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