Thursday, May 9th 2019
Trendforce: SSD Price-per-GB Could Drop as Low as $0.1 by Year's End
A report from technology market analyst Trendforce places SSD's pricing in sharp decline, with price per GB being projected to hit as low as $0.1 by year's end. Citing oversupply in the NADN flash market and an impending price war to allow manufacturers to sell out accumulating inventory, this is one of those clear cases of a win for consumers - which, after the shenanigans in the DRAM market, is about time. Trendforce further states that the price reductions should render 128 GB SSDs obsolete, as they mostly are by now, with 512 GB capacities becoming the mainstream choice for system integrators and DIY.
Pricing evolution in the market also places premium NVMe solutions at an only 6% premium over SATA offerings, showcasing the increased cost savings that manufacturers have achieved with the reduction in price for NVMe controllers, and the lower amount of physical materials needed to put an NVMe SSD together compared to a SATA-based alternative. Furthermore, Trendforce says that value PCIe-based solutions have a 0% price difference compared to SATA-based ones, so the option for the older form factor should only fall upon how many NVMe/PCIe sockets users' motherboards have available to populate.
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Trendforce
Pricing evolution in the market also places premium NVMe solutions at an only 6% premium over SATA offerings, showcasing the increased cost savings that manufacturers have achieved with the reduction in price for NVMe controllers, and the lower amount of physical materials needed to put an NVMe SSD together compared to a SATA-based alternative. Furthermore, Trendforce says that value PCIe-based solutions have a 0% price difference compared to SATA-based ones, so the option for the older form factor should only fall upon how many NVMe/PCIe sockets users' motherboards have available to populate.
22 Comments on Trendforce: SSD Price-per-GB Could Drop as Low as $0.1 by Year's End
Not even all QLC manufacturers are on board yet (still waiting for Toshiba/WD and their next iteration of BiCS), but it might get much lower than $100/TB even this year.
Kinda eyeing NVME RAID0 of 2x1TB Intel 660p on my next upgrade, if no decent GPUs from AMD coming this year.
Still, I have to admit I first misread this as $0.01, which had me ever so slightly skeptical. I don't think $10 1TB SSDs are coming any time soon :p
My to-go SSDs from Patriot and Goodram are at 11-12c per GB even at low-capacity models like 120-240GB (and that's in Ukraine, with double taxing).
Also look at PCPartsPicker and sort by price/GB. There are models in this category of any size, from 480 to 2000GB
Intel 660p prices are exactly the same as what I would get in my country.
Yes, overall it's more expensive than most places, but it's the first random storefront I found and its wa-a-a-a-a-a-y far off the claimed 50c/GB.
It was a joke, and I admit a bad one.