SSD Drives Coming Down In Price Anytime Soon?

IceDigger

IceDigger

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Just curious when the avg person can afford one?

Any hints of price drops?
 
Try the OCZ solid2. Uses indilinx controller and prices @ egg are $99, $149, $269 (30/60/120G). Any should be fine for an OS drive.
 
seems like the market ( ssd's ) has been rather stagnant lately as far as tech developments, etc..

after the first year where it seemd every other week was a new break though and such..

Still Intel's dominate?
 
Intel still best. But Micro C300 look nice.

And dont tink price on SSD drops before Intel/micron Hit 25NM in Q4
 
Even after 25nm NAND comes out later this year, I do not expect large price drops, since IMFT has no competition at 25nm NAND (they say the competition is 1 year behind).
 
Why do you say Sandforce beats C300? The C300 has much higher IOPS (about 50K) and it does not "cheat" by compressing -- the Sandforce probably looks better on most benchmarks than it really is, since many benchmarks just write a bunch of zeros, and Sandforce will compress that, but real life data is not as compressible.
 
My gut tells me that it'll probably be a while. Flash prices are a lot more volatile than hard drives so nobody can really know for sure - only that they'll go down in price. Eventually.
 
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