SSDs now cost 16x more than HDDs due to AI supply chain crisis — hybrid SSD + HDD datacenter deployments are now significantly cheaper to deploy than SSD-only equivalents by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) from Latest from Tom's Hardware on 2026-01-22 12:20 (#730YH) A new report reveals that enterprise SSDs now cost a whopping 16x more than hard drives.