Monday, October 19th 2020
SSD Prices Expected To Fall 10-15% in Q4 2020
The memory market is expected to remain in a state of oversupply during Q4 2020 for both DRAM and NAND flash according to a new report from TrendForce. This oversupply will mean ~10% lower prices for memory in Q4 2020 with further price drops in 2021, this will result in falling SSD prices of 10-15%. These price drops in the consumer market will likely result in the lowest SSD pricing seen to date. These reductions were mainly driven by Huawei losing access to foreign DRAM and NAND memory which wasn't fully taken up by other smartphone manufacturers leading to an access of supply. These lower SSD prices will help accelerate the decline of HDDs in consumer devices as price parity gets closer.
Source:
TrendForce
19 Comments on SSD Prices Expected To Fall 10-15% in Q4 2020
That always seems to do the trick and raise prices back up.
Heck, even Intel 660p went up nearly 20% comparing to last year (considering no one buys them anyway). Adata SX8200[pro] and Samsung Pro/Evo also went up to the moon and beyond.
Persionally im waiting for the (already announced) Phison E18 based drives before i decide what to buy. Currently im on SATA and seeking to replace all 3 of my drives with Gen4 M.2. 128GB, 500GB and 1TB. All MLC. Will move to 500GB and 2x 2TB with TLC. Screw QLC.
I just want something that gets as close as possible to max out the interface (sequentially obviously) so there would be no reason to upgrade until platform change in the future. Im on X570 with 3 empty M.2 slots btw.
I get so tired of hearing this. "Price parity" is a long time away.