SSDs now cost 16x more than HDDs due to AI supply chain crisis — hybrid SSD + HDD datacenter deployments are now significantly cheaper to deploy than SSD-only equivalents
· Source: tomshardware.com
In short
The AI-driven supply chain crisis has created a massive price disparity between SSDs and HDDs, with SSD prices now 16 times higher than HDDs. Enterprise-grade 30TB TLC SSD prices increased by 257% between Q2 2025 and Q1 2026, while HDD prices rose only 35%. This has made hybrid storage deployments combining SSDs for caching and HDDs for long-term storage significantly more cost-effective than SSD-only setups, with 3-year ownership costs for hybrid systems being a quarter of SSD-only deployments.
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Tags: storage, datacenter, SSD, HDD, pricing, shortage