SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge 347
Lucas123 writes "After dropping 20% in the second quarter of 2012 alone, SSD prices fell another 10% in the second half of the year. The better deals for SSDs are now around 80- to 90-cents-per-gigabyte of capacity, though some sale prices have been even lower, according IHS and other research firms. For some models, the prices have dropped 300% over the past three years. At the same time, hard disk drive prices have remained "inflated" — about 47% higher than they were prior to the 2011 Thai floods, according to DRAMeXchange."
Here's another WTF (Score:5, Insightful)
The summary says that the prices on some models has dropped 300%. That's impossible, since the price cannot drop below zero, unless of course THEY are paying YOU to take the drive (as in soviet russia).
You'll be waiting a long time (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:BULLSHIT (Score:2, Insightful)
2TB drives used to be 69 and below, they are currently sitting between 90 and 100.
70* 1.47 = $102
47% higher seems about right.
Re:Kinda tiny (Score:5, Insightful)
Put your OS on it, and application binaries. You can have a second drive for everything else.
Re:WTF?!?!?! (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm not sure you understand how percentages work.
Re:Can't wait (Score:2, Insightful)
And hence not artificially inflated.
Re:You'll be waiting a long time (Score:4, Insightful)
You're obviously a copyright thefting pirate if you need more than 256 GB storage on an SSD.
Or a parent with a camera that records video.