Hear me out : i also come from the few gigs HDDs the 90s era, and i can clearly remember how out of reach something like 500 gig HDD was back then.
But it seems to me that it took less time for HDDs to grow in capacity once they reached the 2/4TB stage than it took them from megabytes to 1/2TBs.
In contrast, SSDs have reached the sweet spot of 2/3/4 TBs for quite sometime now (at least 5 solid years) but anything above that and the prices don't make sense for regular consumers, and the availability of bigger sizes is scarce to say the least.
Is it complexity of the technology? Or weak demand ? High cost of production ? I'm genuinely interested to know; why don't we have 6/8/10 tb SSDs at relatively affordable $ per Gig
(Not talking about NVMEs, just SATA SSDs)
EDIT : Just to clarify, I'm not looking for SSDs to replace HDDs, HDDs will still be the "Storage" option for sure (i have 2 24tbs parity in my unraid array, and will go up to 26/30TBs in the upcoming years when they will become cheaper).
I just want a Parallel wide SSD Market also with high capacity (8/10/12 tb..) at a good cost (i know that flash drives $/tb is nice right now but it's deceiving cause that price is only for 4tb drives and lower). Also i gave the SATA as an example, I don't really care about the connection (obviously it has to be fast).