Friday, June 22nd 2012
SSD Prices in Free-Fall: The Next DRAM?
Hard drive prices refuse to budge after last year's floods that struck manufacturing facilities in Thailand, even as manufacturers turn record profit. The solid-state drive market, on the other hand, is finally rolling with competition, high volume production, and advancements in NAND flash technologies. With memory majors such as Hynix adding new NAND flash manufacturing facilities to their infrastructure, SSD is expected to finally get its big break in the mainstream market.
SSD prices, according to price aggregators, are on a free-fall. Models which once held relative pricing as high as $2 per gigabyte, and going deep within the $1 mark. For example, Crucial's widely-praised M4 256 GB SSD has a price per GB of 'just' $0.82, and a market price around $200, something unheard of, for a 256 GB SSD with transfer rates of over 500 MB/s. With SSD major OCZ Technology releasing new generations of drives under the Vertex 4 and Agility 4 series that use Indilinx processors, older Vertex 3 and Agility 3 models are being phased out, some of these are seeing sub $1/GB prices. Intel is also responding to market trends, with prices of its SSD 520 series dropping sharply. Find a boat-load of stats at the source.
Source:
The TechReport
SSD prices, according to price aggregators, are on a free-fall. Models which once held relative pricing as high as $2 per gigabyte, and going deep within the $1 mark. For example, Crucial's widely-praised M4 256 GB SSD has a price per GB of 'just' $0.82, and a market price around $200, something unheard of, for a 256 GB SSD with transfer rates of over 500 MB/s. With SSD major OCZ Technology releasing new generations of drives under the Vertex 4 and Agility 4 series that use Indilinx processors, older Vertex 3 and Agility 3 models are being phased out, some of these are seeing sub $1/GB prices. Intel is also responding to market trends, with prices of its SSD 520 series dropping sharply. Find a boat-load of stats at the source.
120 Comments on SSD Prices in Free-Fall: The Next DRAM?
the attitude of fitting absolutely everything on one hard drive is scary to me, data loss would cost you everything.
(and THEN get the port multipliers out on E-sata!)
(and thats not even all of them, got a few i just havent connected in a while)
And here I was thinking that 4 HDDs were a little too much (5TB total). What's all that for? BD rips? I have an extra 2.5" 320GB where I backup the important (work) stuff. Everything else I have backed up on DVDs or I have the original media.
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So you are right about the FPS but depending on game smoother gameplay if the game engine has to load while playing.
Still no answer on what are you storing on those...
i also have backups for people i know as well - i fix their laptop, i backup their stuff. cause i know they'll break it again in a week anyway -.-
As for SSDs; none here either due to price and reliability (too much of a 'customer = paying beta tester' vibe going on atm for my liking :ohwell: ) and lack of suitability for my requirements.
I wasn't one of those early adapters but close. When I tried out a cheap (for that time) 32gb SSD on an old laptop that used to run like 18 year old bitter dog, it suddenly came to life running like 3 months old kitten.
Since then, after some researching, I purchased mostly Intel SSDs. It's been some years now and none of them has failed on me so far.
Me not going back.
Games don't matter to me as I don't think I really have time to play games anyway. Well, I do play Football Manager 2012 and have like 2000 hours in it according to Steam.
Just bought 2x 240GB Vertex 3 MAX IOPS. EUR 124 each. geizhals.at/de/?phist=630770&age=183
Laptop was struggling with iTunes BLOAT. And slowing to a crawl with just 3GB left on the OS partition. So bought a 240GB for less than the 120GB is replaces. 120GB goes into workstation as OS drive... with HDD for data.
HDD MFGs, ESPECIALLY WesternDigital, will never see a $ from my wallet again. You wanna ROB people? Ok. No problemo! You never see my currency AGAIN! Same goes for Asus. Goddamned thieves. :nutkick: