Is the flash market a monopoly, or why is price per unit of storage so stagnant ...

imtringued · 2025-07-22T05:55:55 1753163755

Maybe you should actually look at the prices before complaining about the rapid decline cost of flash based memory.

metadat · 2025-07-24T15:23:40 1753370620

I am pretty up to date on the prices, but I'm not sure I understand your comment. Are you able to clarify?

For reference, here is a graph of storage prices over time. The observation is flash-based storage plateauing at a significantly higher baseline compared to magnetic.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1emh1f4/oc...

So it becomes a question of how long will the high baseline hang around with only a few scaled up manufacturers in existence?

The top 4 supply the vast majority of the market from a handful of factories: Samsung, SK Hynix, Kioxia, Micron

Building a new flash or memory factory is a hugely capital-intensive undertaking.

Anyhow, thanks for your reply! Interested in any insights or points I'm missing.