In my previous post Will the Thailand floods prompt a move to SSDs?, I posited that the floods in Thailand would increase the price of traditional spinning media so that it would rise above the cost off SSDs (or at least make the move to higher performance storage systems easier to justify.
With the following article appearing in The Register: NEWSFLASH: Chips cheaper than disks, it would appear that this has happened, at least for enterprise class hard disks and SSD devices.
“Recent HDD/SSD distribution indicates an average 20-25 per cent increase in Seagate and HGST?s enterprise-class HDDs (e.g., 15K.5 73/74GB HDDs nearing approximately $3/GB), which compares to OCZ?s 6Gbit/s SAS Talos SSD at $1.98/GB; single-ported Deneva SAS at about $1.55/GB).” – Aaron Rakers