Comment by justsomehnguy
2 years ago
> $1-5
For a $20 device this is 5-25% of the cost the product, assuming $40 retail cost. It would be 1-5% for a $100 product, of course.
You would pay for a such device, but 99% of people wouldn't. Now you have a product which costs 5-25% higher than all your competitors and in the world where the price dictates the sales you have no opportunity to sell your product.
NB to be sure on the prices I've checked Amazon. There are SSDs what are cheaper than many mounting trays, enclosures (without drives) and tray kits.
I'm not so sure price is the only competing factor for SSDs. Devices generally also differentiate on performance as well. Even on consumer-oriented Slickdeals forum (where people are posting deals) there's pretty extensive breakdowns comparing different SSDs (controllers, flash, cache design). This has been floating around for a while https://www.reddit.com/r/NewMaxx/comments/dhvrdm/ssd_guides_...
Whether consumers would actually pay more for a device with power protection is unclear.
Oof. Im in the bar RN, if you interested - leave a note, I would try to explain what I meant