News Analysts Predict SSD Prices May Halve by Mid-2023

[Admin]

3D NAND and SSD prices will keep dropping due to slowing demand and surplus inventory.

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[cyrusfox]

still waiting for $20 512GB and $40 1tb, Drives like the P31 seem to never drop in price

 

[George³]

Very brave prognosis.
I remember promises or prognosis from several years(maybe close to decade) ago that around 2020-2021, prices per gigabyte of SSDs will level off and then fall below those of gigabyte of HDDs. These predictions were for quite a long time ahead and understandably did not come 100% true. Current analysts are worthless after giving estimates for just a few months ahead. They present to us as their forecast things that are completely visible as developments even by people who do not have any professional training for analytics, but simply keep an up-to-date monitoring of the market's price movements. I would not hire such analysts to work for me.
What if they get the percentages wrong again?

 

[DavidLejdar]

It would certainly be nice if M.2 SSDs drop in price.

In the long run, I want to go for Gen5 - which is why I am looking to get a new motherboard supporting that (and the few Alder Lake motherboards which have it, these are not an option as they take away PCIe 5.0 lanes from the GPU and are expensive).

But as the PCIe 5.0 SSDs haven't really been released yet, it sure isn't surprising that they will be at premium price for some time. So I am looking at older SSDs to use one as system drive for now (and later as storage drive), and would be nice if there would be more options.

On the other hand, e.g. Crucial P5 Plus M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0, the cheapest price I see for 1TB, that may still seem expensive when looking at price per gigabyte, but it comes with a lot more speed than what SATA SSDs have. And for me with a modern broadband connection, large storage volume isn't that important, as downloading a GB in less than two minutes makes hoarding data somewhat obsolete when I can download two 100 GB games while I am at work, and so on.

 

[ravewulf]

Currently I've got two 2TB NVMe drives (one PCIe 3.0 and one 4.0) and two 6TB HDDs for bulk storage (videos, ISO files, etc). It would be cool to replace one of the HDDs with a 4TB SATA SSD if the prices are low enough (the difference in capacity wouldn't be too bad if I shuffle data around). They've already been trending closer to $300 and I'm hoping to catch a sale around Black Friday/Cyber Monday. If we do actually see the prices drop by half next year I might pick up another.