Flash Memory Won't Get Cheaper Any Time Soon

jfruh writes "Some melancholy news from the Hot Chips symposium last week: NAND memory, which powers the solid-state drives that have revolutionized storage, has broken the $1 per gigabyte barrier and isn't getting any cheaper. 'They will always be ten times the cost of a hard drive,' says analyst Jim Handy. There are newer technologies in development, but they won't be able to beat NAND on price for years."

No!

[schneidafunk]

Oh first world problems.

Re:10X my white and flabby ass

[TWiTfan]

Yeah, but Newegg will probably have it for $27K.

Re:No!

[Mitchell314]

I think you mean first hello world problems.

Re:Exactly

[oodaloop]

Because he doesn't want you to! He asked you nicely!

Oh, thank goodness

[forkazoo]

I was worried that Flash might stay expensive for a while, but now that an analyst is predicting it I know it won't actually happen. So, expect a massive crashing in prices pretty much immediately.