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The source on Embodied Carbon in SSDs seems to be this 2022 paper: https://hotcarbon.org/assets/2022/pdf/hotcarbon22-tannu.pdf ; but unless I'm mistaken, it does not claim anything like the full Seagate "report": https://www.seagate.com/content/dam/seagate/assets/resources... ; there might have been an "extrapolation" because 30TB SSDs did not exist then (outside labs).

I'd treat it with a two-order of magnitudes (at least) grain of salt.

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Thx, there is a graph for embodied cost at the start of page 3 and figure vary wildly.

The biggest drive at the time was 3840GB, and its production emitted ~425kg. But if we look at the more prevalent models the emission vary widly: for 512: between ~25 to 225kg and for 1024 from ~60 to 275kg.

And while the paper start with the assertion that manufacturing a Gigabyte of Flash emits 0.16 Kg CO2, I expect emission to be highly dependent on the number of flash module and not so much on the capacity itself.

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