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Apple SSD Supplier Hit With Contamination Disaster, Flash Storage Prices Expected to Spike
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if they wanna make the M1 Macs repairable just STOP soldering the SSD's in place. No Solder. That simple.
Then when these suckers wear out and they will wear out the whole computer ain't JUNK.
Then when these suckers wear out and they will wear out the whole computer ain't JUNK.
They 100% do not want to make M1 Macs repairable.
WD and Kioxia's customers won't "pay the price" they will still pay what is stated in the order contract and may have to wait a bit longer to get the SSDs.
And that the catch everyone who needs them now or hasn't yet signed a (priority) order will have a problem and is gonna try to get some of the unallocated capacity which might drive prices in that segment of the market to the moon.
Apple will pay what they would have payed without the incident and they will charge the exact same amount for upgrades as the had planned months ago.
1 exabyte (EB) = = 1,000 petabytes = 1 million terabytes = 1 billion gigabytes. O
so if you think of it in a 1TB Config MacBook Pro, that's 6.5 million MacBook pros worth of 1TB storage tiers.
considering they sell about 6.5 million Macs every quarter, that impact is pretty unequivocally HUGE.
I agree with boss.king: there's less profit in repairable/replaceable components. Why would Apple let customers buy cheaper SSDs from 3rd party suppliers when Apple can force the customers to use their own SSDs at a substantial markup?
To add insult to injury, many consumers like how thin their laptops & mobile devices are due to things like soldering the SSDs. If the SSDs were repairable, that might make the devices thicker & heavier. Can't have that!
Then I'm staying Intel. Lets say the SSD dies in 3 years. Sodered in it's instant JUNK then.
You can build an ALDER LAKE i9 16 core Hackintosh and fix 100 percent.
What's the betting that the install file for Windows in 20 or so years time will be greater than the contaminated amount 
That's cool, I wasn't trying to convince you to switch. If the tradeoffs of hackintoshing work for you, then by all means stick with it.
There’s not much point. Hint: The SSD is not the least reliable thing on the board.
These suppliers have insurance for this thing!!! This is simply a way to raise prices as an excuse. Don't believe the **** MR and others are pushing because they have insurance to remediate these types of occurrences. Insurance will take the hit, maybe their premiums go up a little. That's it. Need to stop spreading mis-information.....
When the price is relatively low, some disaster like flooding, fire, earthquake... or now contamination will affect a factory.
then we can expect a likely polishing cloth price hike too.Not to worry. An Apple polishing cloth will do its magic and clean the contaminated SSD modules
It is a lot easier to force us all into using cloud storage if there is no local storage to be found. Expect high speed internet to keep going down in price as local storage prices rise. The entire metaverse is set up on this concept. All the information will be kept in some companies server farm. And if your information does not comply with their terms of use, expect to get canceled.
Given what Apple already charges for storage, I'm afraid I have no more organs to give.
against the planned annual output, is this a lot or just a drop in the bucket?
i need some context
