SSD and Price fights

• FLASH media costs more then hard disk platers. Reliable FLASH-based SSD costs much more then hard disks, at similar capacities.
• If consumer-grade hard disks cost about 7.5 cents per GB - consumer-grade SSDs cost about 1.5$ per GB. and these are not enterprise-grade SSDs (nor enterprise-grade HDDs).
• As a result, putting all of your data on SSDs is very expensive.
• Especially when considering an enterprise with hundreds of TB of data.

Originally written by guy keren