More good news

NAND flash prices will continue to drop in the third quarter of 2018 as suppliers scale up their 3D NAND chip output.

NAND flash demand has not been strong enough to digest the industry's capacity, which will likely persist through the third quarter.

Judging from the continued oversupply, the sources expressed concerns NAND flash prices will still be on their downward trend in the second half of 2018. The market oversupply will become severe between the fourth quarter and the first quarter of 2019, when seasonal factors are taken into account.

NAND flash prices will rebound in the third quarter if prices "fall extremely" in the second quarter, Chang noted. Otherwise, NAND flash prices should register only flat growth sequentially in the third quarter,

As chip firms improve gradually their 3D NAND production yield rates NAND flash prices will trend downward in the long term. NAND flash prices will fall to as low as US$0.20 per Gb when 3D NAND production becomes mature.

https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/19691/2tb-micron-1100-2.5-ssd-for-only-268#Item_1

$268 it is, 223 EUR. Very close to target.

@tonalt

Got it.

One other possible solution I personally saw was the guy who just made separate box with HDDs raid and connected it via 10 Gbit port (actually many will do fine even with 1Gbit).

Using pair of such cards https://www.amazon.com/XG-C100C-Network-Adapter-Single-RJ-45/dp/B072N84DG6/

@tonalt

Just set it to shut off after certain period of time. And get other HDD.

Can make stuff in https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/ (or similar software) to adapt your PC to any task you have ahead. I am not talking about smaller things.

Can check video from editor of Linus Tech Tips

@tonalt

Well, good 5400 HDD is almost silent with proper case.

As I said, writing simple auto script you can move stuff to edit SSD (and back with one click) and keep HDD with auto-off.

Or can use this. :-)

@tonalt

And why you need 4TB SSD?

Even today on AMD platform you can use https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/19701/fuzedrive-ryzen-friendly-soft-for-dram-ssd-or-optane-cache-#Item_4

If you work with H.264 or such just pair HDD with Optane 32GB https://www.amazon.com/Intel-Optane-Memory-Module-MEMPEK1W032GAXT/dp/B06XSXX3NS/ otherwise with newer 118GB https://www.amazon.com/Intel-Optane-800P-118GB-XPoint/dp/B078ZK1ZLL/

Thing will be absolutely unmatched.

In reality with proper automatisation any 240GB SSD will do as edit drive.

NAND flash prices are still under downward pressure due to oversupply, Transcend commented.

More good.

NAND flash contract prices for the third quarter rose by up to 6% sequentially, said DRAMeXchange, adding that the prices are approaching the highest levels that OEM factories can afford. Prices for the fourth quarter are expected to remain flat or rise only slightly on quarter, as chipmakers are capable of mass producing 64- and 72-layer 3D NAND devices, DRAMeXchange continued.

And here are fake hackers

Toshiba decided to shut down the production for 3-6 weeks to deal with the hacking, but production has now returned to normal, said the sources, adding that the suspension resulted in reduced NAND flash production nearly 100,000 wafers.

The world's NAND flash market was supposed to see improvements to the undersupply situation starting the fourth quarter, but the Toshiba fab shutdown has now created uncertainties, the sources indicated.

Many downstream distributors originally believed that NAND flash prices had been inflating excessively and would see correction starting the fourth quarter of 2017, according to the sources. However, with the Toshiba incident, such a price correction may not occur.

This is how capitalist are doing their stuff :-)

Major chip providers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have recently adjusted upward their prices for eMMC, eMCP and SSD devices by 10-20% to reflect their tight supplies, said Pua. Meanwhile, Toshiba and Micron Technology have also informed their customers that the supply of their NAND flash chips will be reduced in the third and fourth quarters.

Optimism

There will be a severe shortage of NAND flash memory chips in the third quarter of 2017, and the tight supply will persist through the fourth quarter, according to Taiwan-based Innodisk, which develops and manufactures industrial-class storage products.

The ongoing tight supply of NAND flash chips was caused by chipmakers' transition to 3D NAND memory, said Innodisk. Yield rates for chipmakers of 3D NAND technology required for 1Xnm and sub-1Xnm process manufacturing remain unstable.