Recent SSD Price Hikes Make Them 16x More Expensive Than HDDs

Hard drives can't compete with SSDs for speed, but they're significantly less expensive—and that gap is widening quickly. Storage firm VDURA (via Blocks & Files) recently weighed in on the rapidly changing storage landscape, noting that a particular enterprise SSD has jumped in price by 257% in less than a year, while the lowly hard drive has seen a 35% bump.

VDURA also pointed out that customer quotes sometimes don't even last a couple of months due to volatility. The company has a tool that helps customers price enterprise storage configurations. At this point, SSDs are so expensive that they can even be worth their weight in gold, according to Tom's Hardware.

Building a mix of HDDs and SSDs makes for a (comparatively) more affordable storage setup, with performance being the tradeoff. Of course, hard drive stocks are under pressure, too, as our sibling publication ...