ENTERPRISE SSD PRICES RUN AT 6.5% LAST YEAR

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Enterprise SSD prices rose another 5% in July and remain about 6.5 times higher than in Q3 2025. VDURA prices a 30TB TLC drive at $22,600 and argues that a mixed architecture using flash for performance-sensitive workloads and HDDs for capacity could save approximately $38.74 million over three years in a modeled 25PB AI storage deployment.