Not true. High end controllers need DRAM for caching indexes. That's at least a few dollars.
Flash storage is a commodity, we are paying close to the amortized cost of manufactured and sales.
Flash storage is a commodity, we are paying close to the amortized cost of manufactured and sales.
"A few dollars" forsooth. My 2TB SSD cost $150 AUD and was (I believe) immensely profitable to everyone down the supply chain. The same spend gets you 16GB of packaged DDR ram and I think we can both see there is no linear relationship between the DDR chip cost, in GB and the 100x denser storage needed for SLC flash. This is not about vlsi density or number of chips. I'm not paying $15,000 more for my SSD.
"The prices are the prices"