The only justification I could see is by seating the 8TB SSD in my PS Pro and not having to swap out 2TB or 4TB memory upgrades or bricking them/electrostatic discharge from removal of each SSD. I have so far had a policy of one and done. I never remove it from the PS5 slim/original unless upgrading to a larger size.

It's a shame there isn't two expansion slots, as 4TB SSD M.2 once again are competitively priced in November 2024.

Than again I bet very few on here can remember opting for 32mb of Ram for an extra 1300 dollars bringing my Pentium 100 mhz to nearly 4000 dollars with a 17 inch State of the Art NEC Professional monitor.

Still too expensive. $100 mayhaps?

ssds and hdds serve the same purpose, i.e. store and retrieve data, the main difference is price, performance/reliability (long-term), energy consumption. There's nothing wrong to compare a prop plane v. jet, their purpose is the same.

Quote from: Mr Majestyk on November 10, 2024, 00:45:21Let's be clear 8TB is not a massive amount of storage. We have 24TB HDD and 16TB normal now, so ssd's are still a joke on capacity and laughably bad on price if you want more than 4TB. You'd have to be insane not to buy 2 4TB ssd's for the foreseeable future.

You really embrace humor when writing your comments.

SSDs and HDDs are for different purposes.  Is it really "laughable" and a "joke" when you acknowledge that?

Use your brain.

Under 40 bucks a TB for Gen4 or go home and shut-up OEMs... PERIOD!!

Let's be clear 8TB is not a massive amount of storage. We have 24TB HDD and 16TB normal now, so ssd's are still a joke on capacity and laughably bad on price if you want more than 4TB. You'd have to be insane not to buy 2 4TB ssd's for the foreseeable future.