As the title says, what would they cost, and where can they be found?
eBay has them around 1.1k
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Mostly Intel QLC drives. 2024 wasn’t a good year for SSD prices. I remember 4-8TB models at 70$/TB new in 2023. I wish I had pulled the trigger back then to get a couple of Micron 7450s.
Pricing is not in a good spot for data center SSDs, but I’m sure Hynix, Micron and Solidigm are getting huge margins out of them atm.
I hope we get back to 2023 prices and more. Good luck getting some reasonably priced and good 16TB drives…
We need U.2/3 for the people 
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which is funny as you can get them brand new from reputable suppliers for $1600
Imagine buying a $16 SSD today and selling it for $11 in 3 years after YEARS of datacenter use.
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Not that different from the GPU situation we had during COVID.
Offer and Demand can be a bitch. And I usually end up paying for it
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Most used drives have very little use. Serverthehome did a deep dive on them before
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Prices on Micron 7450’s are slipping.
You can find the 16tb variant for as little as $910 used, but shipped from the far east.
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I got 8x 15.36TB drives for $400/ea a couple of years ago. Still haven’t found anything remotely close to that deal. Only one drive had less than 99% life.
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Oh, it definitely varies
You pay a premium for the drives that have the smart data published, but the deliberately vague listings are where the savings are had.
Of note: any drive that fails erasure cannot be surplused (resold) per enterprise SOP, disposal agreements, and often federal data protection laws
This means any drive with controller issues, bad blocks, etc. are not able to be legally resold as they cannot be securely erased.
I just purchased a used 4TB nvme for $140 that cost 10x that new. Total runtime: 1 hour
Purchased a dozen NVME previously from 1 vendor for the memes.
Drive time ranged from 1 hour to 1300 days
Drive condition ranged from brand new to bad blocks (with readable data still on the drive)
Paid less for all 12 than a single new one was at that time.
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Of course but his sample size is pretty big, there is always an exception to the rule.
With home usage the odds are pretty low you going to have a bad time.
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Agree. 1.100$/16TB they are still too pricy for me.
Lets hope as the demand is filled, that they invest in more capacity to drive down prices of larger SDDs.
Bad news: your post indicates that demand is rising …
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It’s all my fault. 
Thats a pretty good deal, Den-Fi. 
And nice build. At that price, I’d also go for it, also today. It was something like this I was hoping for, not 1100$.
I have a lot more room as mine resides in G5 case that is modded to ATX.
This was 2 years ago before I upgraded it with new socket 1700. I take a new picture when my nic arrives and I will have it open anyway. Click the link for more images. Low power, low noise has been the guiding star. This was a 4570 intel cpu.
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For DRAM, not NAND. Fingers crossed this is a trend.
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DRAM and NAND are the same companies. Hynix, Samsung, Micron are the big 3. Kioxia, WDC and Solidigm are the more minor players with NAND. And they like to announce production cuts at the same time (which is 100% coincidence and totally not price agreements we see with e.g. OPEC).
Yeah they produced too much stuff in 2022 and 2023 and prices fell which is good for customers, but bad for shareholders. So they did what any good enterprise does…throttle production to increase margin per SSD/DRAM.
But the next step is also predictable…someone unilaterally increases production (seems like Kioxia is the recent candidate) to get high prices and higher production = max profit. This will happen in 2025. And eventually others will follow until prices crash again to justify production cuts.
And the eternal up and down enters the next lap.
You can buy now or be patient, like with most other stuff too. But don’t expect SSDs, especially not Data Center SSDs to cost less than ~4x the capacity of HDDs within the next years.
HDD vendors seem to insist on this fairly consistent gap in price/capacity.
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Solidigm is a subsidiary of SK Hynix, and Kioxia if I’m not wrong supplies everything WDC
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SN5000, SN770, and SN850X are all Kioxia NAND, yeah, with ARM based controllers fabbed by TSMC. Unsure of the whole SN850X line but at least some of them use Micron SDRAM.
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