Consumer SSDs and hard drive prices are nearing parity

[Thomas the Tank Engine]

The prices of mainstream consumer SSDs have fallen dramatically every year over the past three, and by 2017 they are expected to be within 11 cents of the per-gigabyte price of hard disk drives (HDDs).

 

The plummeting prices have also driven the recent adoption of SSDs in laptops. This year, they will be used by manufacturers in about 24% to 25% of laptops, according to a new report by DRAMeXchange, a division of market research firm TrendForce.

 

Next year, SSDs are expected to be in 31% of new consumer laptops, and by 2017 they'll be in 41% of them, according to DRAMeXchange senior manager Alan Chen.

 

Nearing price parity

 

This marks the fourth straight quarter that the SSD price decline has exceed 10%. But, as popular as they've become, the adoption rate will fall below expectations this year, DRAMeXchange stated.

 

"Branded PC vendors and channel distributors are holding back on their SSD purchases due to lower-than-expected notebook sales," Chen said. "However, 256GB SSDs will be moving close to price parity with mainstream HDDs in 2016, so the adoption of SSDs in the business notebook segment will rise."

 

The per-gigabyte pricing of hard disk drives and SSDs.

 

 

 

 

Read the rest here: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3010395/solid-state-drives/consumer-ssds-and-hard-drive-prices-are-nearing-parity.html

[PGHammer]

2 minutes ago, Thomas the Tank Engine said:

The prices of mainstream consumer SSDs have fallen dramatically every year over the past three, and by 2017 they are expected to be within 11 cents of the per-gigabyte price of hard disk drives (HDDs).

 

The plummeting prices have also driven the recent adoption of SSDs in laptops. This year, they will be used by manufacturers in about 24% to 25% of laptops, according to a new report by DRAMeXchange, a division of market research firm TrendForce.

 

Next year, SSDs are expected to be in 31% of new consumer laptops, and by 2017 they'll be in 41% of them, according to DRAMeXchange senior manager Alan Chen.

 

Nearing price parity

 

This marks the fourth straight quarter that the SSD price decline has exceed 10%. But, as popular as they've become, the adoption rate will fall below expectations this year, DRAMeXchange stated.

 

"Branded PC vendors and channel distributors are holding back on their SSD purchases due to lower-than-expected notebook sales," Chen said. "However, 256GB SSDs will be moving close to price parity with mainstream HDDs in 2016, so the adoption of SSDs in the business notebook segment will rise."

 

The per-gigabyte pricing of hard disk drives and SSDs.

 

 

 

 

Read the rest here: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3010395/solid-state-drives/consumer-ssds-and-hard-drive-prices-are-nearing-parity.html

Not news.  SSD pricing has returned to near free-fall with improvements in terms of flash capacity per cubic inch, and other non-SSD uses for flash are constrained by existing SIZE form-factors (such as sticks and microSD).  Look at the price of merely the SAMSUNG 850 EVO since it launched - and I'm referring to the 500GB size; the price has been nearly halved since launch.  The question is will the 1 TB version of the successor to the 850 EVO be priced where the 500GB EVO is today in a year's time?   (I utterly refuse to discount the idea - even though the 500GB EVO today is all of thirty-three CENTS (US) per gigabyte on Amazon today.)