Flash memory price 'to drop 25%'

Flash memory price 'to drop 25%'

Tom Warren on 21 March 2006 - 07:58 · 11 comments & 3392 views

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According to the BBC flash memory prices are due to drop significantly by around 25%.

The slump in price of memory chips is thought to be because of an over-supplied market with devices that use the Nand chip ranging from digital cameras to music players like the iPod Nano.

The market is expected to heat up again in Summer but if the prices are still dropping this could pave the way for much cheaper flash based MP3 players to compete with Apple's iPod Nano.

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(7 replies) #1 ScaryX on 21 Mar 2006 - 08:10

cool

#1.1 furby on 21 Mar 2006 - 09:38

Cool indeed, I wonder when we'll see flash drives in our computers. Low power, no noise, perferct for a laptop

#1.2 Ravensworth on 21 Mar 2006 - 09:49

Flash drives aren't really suitable as hard drive replacements, they only have a limited number of write cycles.

#1.3 furby on 21 Mar 2006 - 09:57

Ah, learn something new every day. How many cycles? I'm guessing less than the lifetime of the computer

#1.4 disturb3d on 21 Mar 2006 - 10:25

1000

#1.5 Ajapi on 21 Mar 2006 - 11:15

disturb3d get your facts straight: it is 10^6 cycles, not 1,000. You were off by a margin of 1,000x

#1.6 StevoFC on 21 Mar 2006 - 15:36

yeah flash drives have come a long way. the write cycles really aren't anything to be worried about for average uses.

#1.7 Shining Arcanine on 22 Mar 2006 - 00:47

According to Samsung, modern flash drives employ special internal algorithms that prevent them from hitting the 100,000 write limit, so that they can last for billions of writes. Just a thought.

#2 sphbecker on 21 Mar 2006 - 13:25

Good news considering that my digital camera uses over 10MB per picture!

(1 reply) #3 chorpeac on 21 Mar 2006 - 14:20

Cool maybe I should buy my new usb flash drive now...

#3.1 laz on 21 Mar 2006 - 21:07

Yeah I'm holding off until the prices do REALLY drop, as I'm looking for a good cheap 1GB CF card for my camera =). Weeks, max I hope.

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