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SSD Prices Down 46% Since 2011

Posted by timothy on from the filthy-exploitative-capitalists-at-it-again dept.

crookedvulture writes "Hard drive prices have yet to return to normal after last year's Thailand flooding. There's good news on the solid-state front, though. The current generation of SSDs has steadily become much cheaper over the last year or so. SSD prices have dropped an average of 46% since early 2011. Intel has largely shied away from discounting its drives, but the aggressive competition between other players in the market seems to have forced its hand. There's no indication that competition is waning, suggesting the downward trend will continue. Right now, an impressive number of drives are available for less than a dollar per gigabyte."

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  1. Re:hard drive prices/GB are also dropping by jaymz666 · · Score: 3, Funny

    They've gone to plaid

  2. HDD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're just inventing words as you write, aren't you?

  3. Re:SSD? by v1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdotter who doesn't know what an SSD is.. Really?

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  4. Re:They speak the truth by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 1, Funny

    Memorialising Patrick Swayze?

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  5. Re:SSD? by smallfries · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sounds Soggy, Dude.

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  6. Re:hard drive prices/GB are also dropping by xkenny13 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have Windows 7 x64 in a system where it recognizes 16GB of RAM.

    Of course, most of that's got sucked up by Firefox...