The flash chips for that cheap-and-slow 32GB Transcend are only worth about $100. I really don't think the case and controller are worth $40 by themselves, with a 100% markup to get to retail. 832GB of flash is only worth ~$2500 today, and that figure will keep dropping. Nobody in their right mind should pay $1100 for the controller and case plus another 100% markup on top of that.


With those sort of prices you may as well get a RAID 6 SAS array. It will be cheaper, more fault tolerant, faster and more reliable.

On the counter side, it will take up ALOT more space than 2.5 inch, very noisy & takes up plenty more eletricity.

I wonder were they got 832GB from...

A cheap-and-slow SSD, the 32GB Transcend MLC model, costs around $280 right now (street price).

832GB is 26 times that amount of flash, and 26 x $280 is $7280.

But then, Bitmicro would charge a premium for the biggest SSD on the planet, and a price premium for a low volume item, which puts the price squarely into the [low] 5 figures.

With or without a side of white diamonds? What about doused in rare snow-leopard blood?

According to dramexchange.com, MLC is only around $3/GB right now. A 5-digit price tag would be way out of line...