In deep flight, SSD prices

After the drastic rise in the price of hard drives, plenty of buyers have noticed SSDs.

 

By now, we can be basically sure that we can forget about the pre-flood HDD prices in Thailand for a long time to come, as manufacturers definitely want to avoid more serious price competition. Fortunately, this is not the case with flash memory drives. Supply far exceeds demand, hence prices (compared to the circumstances) can be said to be depressed. According to the observations in The Tech Report, the price of some SSDs has halved in one year. It also turned out that the cost of 1GB of storage capacity was well below the $ 1 psychological limit in some cases.

 

Now the 256GB Crucial SSD seems to be a particularly good buy. [+]

 

Smaller models (40-60 GB) do not explicitly represent good value for money, but models with higher storage capacity can still catch on customers' wallets today.

 

 

The Samsung 830 series is extremely popular with the customers. The products offer great performance and prices have clearly started to plummet, although there hasn’t been a really significant change for the smallest model. In any case, the pricing varies from month to month, but fortunately in a way that is favorable to buyers.

 

 

Although OCZ was initially not very willing to cut prices, later the price of the 128GB Octane model was reduced by about 40 percent.

 

 

The Crucial M4 has long been available on store shelves. Compared to last year's prices, this year we can get a Marvell controller SSD 50-60% cheaper.

 

 

Both the Corsair Force 3 and OCZ Agility 3 series underwent significant price adjustments due to the fierce competition. The number shown on the price tag of the latter is approximately 60 percent lower than in 2011, while there were 40-50% negative changes in the former. Unfortunately, the 60GB model didn’t get much cheaper.

  

source: techreport.com