8 Terabyte Hard Drive

xeltros wrote:
I've always wondered why they didn't actually do some SSD with 3.5 inches size and two layers with less miniaturised chips on them, it should drive the prices down while remaining compatible with existing NAS, shouldn't it ? Given the actual heat of an SSD, this shouldn't be a problem and making 8Tb drives should be easy with that technology (although NAND has a price, even the cheapest one).

You'd think 3.5" would be cheaper. There were some companies who made 3.5" SSD a few years ago, but they have all discontinued them. My guess is that if you want to make another form factor, then PCIe has a bigger market.