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Is it even possible to buy SLC drives any more?

Yes, small ones for industrial use. They're extremely expensive, however.

Looking at the raw NAND flash prices, SLC seems to still be around $4.60USD/GB, or roughly the same as it was over a decade ago, while MLC is already <$1USD/GB despite only a doubling in capacity. TLC and QLC seems to be down in the $0.10USD/GB. You can still buy raw SLC NAND flash in the smaller capacities of few GBs; this one is only 512MB, at the price mentioned above:

https://www.newark.com/micron/mt29f4g08abaeawp-it-e/flash-me...

If the pricing was sane, SLC drives would be only 4x more expensive as QLC ones for the same capacity, but that's not what we're seeing today.



Do you think the pricing difference could be due to economies of scale?




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