SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge

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."

Re:300% drop?

[NixieBunny]

There's a large, smoking hole in the ground where the price fell through the Earth's crust.

Re:Can't wait

[codewarren]

I've never had an SSD, and had a very bad experience with a first gen one

So what was the bad experience you had with a first gen SSD besides not having one?

Re:UK HDs seem to be down to 2011 prices

[1_brown_mouse]

I read that as "tranny" and it was much funnier.

Re:UK HDs seem to be down to 2011 prices

[telchine]

LOL. Works both ways, I suppose.

That's what (s)he said!

Re:mSATA SSDs

[Digital Vomit]

Some HDD sizes are now cheaper than before the Flood.

Too bad Moses spent so much time trying to save squirrels and zebras that he couldn't be bothered to save some of that tech.

Re:Here's another WTF

[omnichad]

Assuming it's proper English to someone, I'd assume the logic goes like this.

The price was $12, now it's $3. The price dropped by 300%. That is, 300% of the final price has been subtracted from the first price. It's complete nonsense, and completely backwards really.

Re:WTF?!?!?!

[Synerg1y]

quantity goes up this [wikipedia.org] gains a higher margin with higher quantities. This is why you don't term your 10m a year product line with a 5% return rate. But on a 500k a year product line, 5% may not be as acceptable. So, if OCZ sold 1m drives and crucial 100k... and OCZ's failure rate is 5% and crucial's is 2%, your chances are still higher to get a working drive with OCZ.

Re:You'll be waiting a long time

[Adriax]

Turtles.
FET = Flying Electric Turtles.
That's why SSDs are so expensive still, they have to breed nano-scale turtles that are almost impossible to corral because they either fly over the tiny fence or conduct along it.