VDURA says 30 TB QLC SSD Capacity Now Costs 22.6x More Than HDD
Blocks & Files, Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
VDURA says its Flash Volatility Index shows that, by Q1 2026, 30 TB QLC SSD capacity cost 22.6 times as much as equivalent 30 TB HDD capacity. The Flash Volatility Index provides a view of SSD pricing.
VDURA says it tracks "how flash media volatility translates into real-world cost exposure and how that compares to the current HDD market. The accompanying Storage Economics Optimizer Tool allows organizations to model total system cost across different storage architectures, performance targets, and media mixes, giving infrastructure teams a way to evaluate trade-offs before committing capital."
There has been a sustained period of rising SSD prices. Pricing for 30 TB TLC enterprise SSDs increased by 472 percent between Q2 2025 and Q1 2026, rising from $3,062 to $17,500.