SSD Prices

[jecho]

Anyone think that SSDs are long overdue for major price reductions or is it just that companies know they can charge what they do. I am wanting to get opinions cause i want to buy another 120-128 GB SSD soon.

 

[Hawkeye22]

Like anything else, as manufacturing prices drop and production and quality go up, prices will fall. Supply and demand also plays into this. Hard drives have been around a long time compared to SSD's. I think in another 3-5 years prices may actually be in line with HDD's in price per gig... at least one can only hope so.

 

[cadder]

Anyone think that SSDs are long overdue for major price reductions or is it just that companies know they can charge what they do. I am wanting to get opinions cause i want to buy another 120-128 GB SSD soon.

Prices have gradually been decreasing over the past couple of years, however a lot of prices have held constant or even increased over the past few months. I thought prices were about to hit my magic buy point and then all of the ones I've been watching started going back up! I've also noticed that prices do fluctuate a little bit each day, and I see various models on sale here and there for a day or two each. It make sense to watch the prices and shop around. I don't know when they will go back into a gradual decline. My personal theory is that sharply increased hard drive prices have put a little pressure on SSD's. With less difference in price between SSD's and rotating hard drives I would expect that some people have decided to buy SSD's for system drives instead of rotating hard drives.

 

[b8453942]

Anyone think that SSDs are long overdue for major price reductions or is it just that companies know they can charge what they do. I am wanting to get opinions cause i want to buy another 120-128 GB SSD soon.

Here's a good resource which tracks the daily prices of SSDs
www.ssdtracker.com

Current the #1 ranked drive in terms of price per gigabyte is:

Verbatim 128 GB SSD priced at $131.99 / $1.03 per gigabyte

Hope that helps.