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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."

2 of 292 comments (clear)

  1. Re:SSD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    SSD means Solid State Disc, a faster permanent storage type than HDD, however lacking capacity-per-dollar of HDDs.

    Solid State Drive *

  2. Re:hard drive prices/GB are also dropping by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Only if it's Win 7 32-bit. If he's using the 64-bit version (which is a good bet) he'll get the full 8.