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and we got even more reasons. lots of people have one pci-e 5 m.2 slot. ONE. the top one, that goes directly to the cpu. the rest being pci-e 4 and a bunch going through the pci-e 4 x4 chipset link as well.

so people of course would like to maximum the benefit of their ONE high speed m.2 interfance, that they have in their system.

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and you should compare ssd pricing yourself before making such comments.

on geizhals looking for working ssds, so dram + tlc selection the cheapest ssd per TB comes out as the kioxia exceria g2. that is the cheapest regardless of the size and per TB at 51 euros/TB and 2100 MB/s reads.

if we select 4 TB minimum we are at 59 euros/TB if you wanna dare go with a verbatim ssd and this CHEAPEST 4 TB ssd /TB lists 7000 MB/s reads and 6400 MB/s writes.

why is that? because it does not make any sense to sell vastly slower ssds at all, because the controller again is a fixed cost and the bigger we go the less of a cost the controller also gets, so shipping slower 8 TB drives again MAKES NO SENSE!

your comment makes 0 sense and sounds like from someone who isn't actually hoarding even a bit of data, or understands part of the ssd industry and why ssds are how they are generally.

the storage setup rightnow, that makes sense is the biggest ssds, that should be the current max speed and spinning rust used still, because we have to, because of cost.

there is no "oh i just get a 2nd ssd, that is much slower, but a lot cheaper", that generally doesn't exist and for a good reason. again fixed controller prices.

many things wrong with your idea.

first off, systems have a limited amount of m.2 pci-e slots or nowadays even heavily limited sata ports.

i got ONE m.2 slot left on my x570 board and i already would be using more sata ports if it had more the 8 it came with.

so where would i put those slower ssds, that are mostly wrongfully assumed to be cheaper? that's right no where....

because i got one m.2 slot left. i want split os for legacy dual booting as well in the future to move that from some sata drive, so that means, that guess what...

the one left m.2 slot needs to have as big of a space as possible.

not 2 TB like my current one, not 4 TB, which is the current "value" max, which leaves us with 8 TB.

the controllers are designed to handle 8 TB capacity.

the controller straight up stays the same. the nand gets doubled in capacity and the dram gets/should get increased by 100% as well.

so there is no issue offering double capacity ssds for high speed ssds.

so why aren't they doing it mostly?

well that is a damn freaking good question. the best guess would be, that the nand/memory cartel's prices for nand have stayed high enough for ssd makers not wanting to put the little effort in it to make 8 TB versions happen.

and again your logic makes 0 sense on a hardware level. you are already paying for the controller. the sm2508 controller, which is a great controller (pci-e 5 controller, that runs cool enough to not require insane cooling and high performance still) is capable of doing 8 TB ssds.

so bigger ssds should cost less hardware wise, because again we got the fixed cost controller in all of the lineup already.

and you also can't bring up the increased pci-e 5 vs pci-e 4 speed costs, because those are mostly artificial until pci-e 5 proper and cool running controllers take over.

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