What kind of world do you live in? ? That's business 101, cover the costs you have by adjusting the price.
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Apple SSD Supplier Hit With Contamination Disaster, Flash Storage Prices Expected to Spike
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After Terabyte, you have Petabytes (1000 Terabytes). It's all matter of powers of 10. 1000 PB equals 1 Exabyte. Then comes Zettabyte and Yottabyte, each one equaling 1000x from the previous measurement.
By far your best comment ever.👍Not to worry. An Apple polishing cloth will do its magic and clean the contaminated SSD modules
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I bet the silicon is contaminated.
It's the "I see the market stabilising, lowering our profit margins, so it'd be unfortunate if an unexpected
Happens every 2-3 years.
The right way to recover losses would be charging the shareholders.
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6.5 billion gigabytes
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Just saw that several people before me already answered, so disregard this.
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Oh great, now Tim will look into organic SSD's
I wonder where they will put the plug in on our bods. Seriously, even before the contamination issue I think SSD have been way too expensive if you at the storage price vs. price, even non-Apple upgrades. They've been out for a long time.
Sorry for being pedantic, but is that an exabyte as in 10^18, (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes, or 2^60 (1,152,921,504,606,847,000) bytes?
It actually isn't informative, because they can is only part of the story, apple also use more expensive MLC drives, most there use cheaper TLC or QLC drives.Found this informative forum that talks about the SSD prices. Looks like prices will definitely go up high. Why? Because Apple simple can.
Why SSD for Apple laptops are expensive?
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) that has 500GB SSD in it and I would like to upgrade the storage to 1TB SSD. I was checking prices for SSD drives, compared to other laptop SSD, those produced for Apple (OWC, Transcend) are considerably more expensive than Samsung et al. Why...forums.macrumors.com
Is this how the Matrix formed? I guess the original idea was that the machines used people as a computer, but that was too confusing for general audiences. That's why became batteries instead.Oh great, now Tim will look into organic SSD's
Assume prices hike 10%, so instead of a $3 NAND chip they pay $3.30, Apple wil
swallow the difference.
Note, the above amount is rounded, also, I know there lots of different capacities, I am not far off though.
swallow the difference.
Note, the above amount is rounded, also, I know there lots of different capacities, I am not far off though.
Western Digital is going to lose a lot of money because of this. Do you think they are happy?
I dunno, Bit 'O
Always seems like the cash grab happens at the most opportune time, under the most dire of circumstances, with limited information available for verification due to "reasons".
So just shut up and pay up. Everything else is getting more expensive anyway, so you should be getting decent raises to cover it, right?
Right?
That's a crazy amount of storage! I wish there was more elaboration on what exactly happened.
Depends on setup. Friend had a MacBook with 128gb ssd and 8gb ram for school use. Constantly using gigabytes of swap. SSD was down to in 3% health in 2 years. And this was before montelame memory leaks where a single music app uses 80gb ram.
and then tomorrow hard drives factory "catches" fire and jacks up prices. good trend
That stuff unfortunately happens…
If one were to follow the NAND market one would know that pricing was expected to fall 5-10% in Q1/2, now with this shortage (limited to Q2) it would seem that pricing will remain at 2021 levels throughout Q2…
If one were to follow the NAND market one would know that pricing was expected to fall 5-10% in Q1/2, now with this shortage (limited to Q2) it would seem that pricing will remain at 2021 levels throughout Q2…
The fabs scrap contaminated wafers.We’ll find these chips in cheaper devices and phones soon.
Better to start over and do it right.
Luckily Apple is already charging a 400% markup, so a 10% spike in raw material costs means very little.
No they won’t, it’s a supply/demand thing…Found this informative forum that talks about the SSD prices. Looks like prices will definitely go up high. Why? Because Apple simple can.
Why SSD for Apple laptops are expensive?
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) that has 500GB SSD in it and I would like to upgrade the storage to 1TB SSD. I was checking prices for SSD drives, compared to other laptop SSD, those produced for Apple (OWC, Transcend) are considerably more expensive than Samsung et al. Why...
NAND pricing was forecasted to go down in 2022, now with this they’ll probably remain at 2021 levels through Q2 and then go down
Apple uses MLC NANDS, try to find the same capacity and speed SSD for a quarter of Apple's price, I bet you can't.