SSD Storage Capacity Prices Are Over 20 Times HDD Storage Capacity Price
Forbes, Monday, April 13th, 2026
The costs of storage to support AI and other enterprise workloads have exploded. Especially for solid state drives, SSDs, used for primary storage to support the high bandwidth memory, HBM, demand of graphical processing units, GPUs.
Some companies push SSD storage for all enterprise storage, but with the differences in pricing, you may want to think again about doing so.
Vdura has set up a website that tracks enterprise SSD and hard disk drive, HDD, prices. The company's Vdura flash volatility index shows that by Q1 2026 30 TB QLC SSD capacity cost 22.6 times as much as equivalent 30 TB HDD storage capacity. Enterprise SSD prices increased by almost 24% in the three weeks between March 4 and March 23, 2026.