Top-end SSDs have gotten so pricey they're worth more than their weight in gold

• SSDs have shot up in price over the past month and a half
• Tom's Hardware compared the cost of some top-end SSDs against gold in terms of their relative weight
• It turns out that high-end 8TB SSDs are, on average, worth more than gold now by weight – and a few 4TB models are, too

If you've ever wondered whether SSDs are more valuable than gold, gram-for-gram, in weight terms – and some folks have, following price inflation driven by the memory crisis – the answer is, rather incredibly, yes, for capacious high-end drives, anyway.

Tom's Hardware reports that a Reddit discussion sprang up around this topic, and our sister site ran some comparisons of the relative cost-to-weight ratios of 24k gold versus certain NVMe SSD models.

Those are the compact stick-style SSDs, of course, that plug into your motherboard via an M.2 slot. (It ...