Thursday, February 14th 2019
2019 the Year of 1TB SSDs: Prices Fall by 50%
1-Terabyte SSDs could become a new mainstream-desktop must-have in 2019, as prices of the drives have fallen by 50 percent year-over-year, according to DigiTimes. A 1 TB SATA SSD in the 2.5-inch form-factor can now be had for as little as $99, while faster NVMe drives in the M.2 form-factor start around $130. At the beginning of 2018, 1 TB SATA SSDs used to start around the $160-mark, and NVMe drives north of $200. The 1 TB category includes 960 GB, 1000 GB, and 1024 GB marketed capacities with varying amounts of overprovisioning set by manufacturers.
Falling SSD prices are accelerated by the entry of cost-effective 96-layer 3D NAND flash, higher-density QLC NAND flash, undigested inventories of drives based on older technologies such as 64-layer or TLC NAND flash; and a 15 percent sequential quarterly drop in NAND flash prices in the industry. Growth in speeds of client-segment SSDs have remained largely flat over the year, and not much is to be expected in performance growth other than perhaps the advent of PCIe gen 4.0 based enterprise SSDs towards the end of the year.
Source:
DigiTimes
Falling SSD prices are accelerated by the entry of cost-effective 96-layer 3D NAND flash, higher-density QLC NAND flash, undigested inventories of drives based on older technologies such as 64-layer or TLC NAND flash; and a 15 percent sequential quarterly drop in NAND flash prices in the industry. Growth in speeds of client-segment SSDs have remained largely flat over the year, and not much is to be expected in performance growth other than perhaps the advent of PCIe gen 4.0 based enterprise SSDs towards the end of the year.
60 Comments on 2019 the Year of 1TB SSDs: Prices Fall by 50%
I don't know if it has to do with the vendors here are more greedy or if its because of the higher taxes
I bought a 850evo 1tb about two years ago and paid 300 usd and just below 200 usd for a 860 1tb last October
and the cheapest 860 1tb i can find today is around 170 usd and 160 usd for a MX500 1tb. So no where near the quoted 99 usd
It is indeed the year of 1TB SSD's, and judging by the rate of price decrease... 2TB will also become quite affordable for many people.
4TBs are still way overpriced.
..I kinda prefer my SSD to be really reliable. My old 40GB Intel still works. Was expensive as fck, but it works, years after it was made. Pretty sure many cheaply made new ones wont last even one tenth.
The reality on the ground is that there are no guarantees that a HDD or SSD won't fail. A manufacturer's warranty is essentially a legal contract between two parties more then anything else.
If the data is impotent then RAID can be helpful but backups in multiple locations is essential. RAID is not in itself a backup. If your plan for averting possible disaster due to a drive failure is "just get what you think is a good drive" then you need to reevaluate.
If the data isn't all that important then no big deal either way,.....