SSD prices are rising as AI demand breaks decades of falling storage costs
lemire · x · 2026-09-15
Daniel Lemire notes that AI's appetite for memory and storage is making SSDs more expensive — historically an anomaly, as storage prices almost always go down. AI demand is breaking that long-term trend.
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