News SSD Pricing Could Tumble as NAND Prices Predicted to Drop by 35%

[Admin]

TrendForce has revised down its NAND flash wafer contract price estimates from 15-20 to 30-35% during Q3 2022. It expects prices to dip a further 20% in Q4 this year.

SSD Pricing Could Tumble as NAND Prices Predicted to Drop by 35% : Read more

 

[wifiburger]

we need cheap 2tb & 4tb, don't really care if they are pcie3

been stuck over the years buying 512mb, tops 1tb nvme because anything more it was crazy expensive

got so tired of waiting for a good price , got a 11tb usb3.0 hdd; surprisingly my games don't care being limited to 220mb/s and don't need to shuffle / uninstall

 

[Pextaxmx]

we need cheap 2tb & 4tb, don't really care if they are pcie3

been stuck over the years buying 512mb, tops 1tb nvme because anything more it was crazy expensive

got so tired of waiting for a good price , got a 11tb usb3.0 hdd; surprisingly my games don't care being limited to 220mb/s and don't need to shuffle / uninstall

True for 4Tb drives. But 2Tb has been the cheapest per GB for a while.

 

[Lafong]

we need cheap 2tb & 4tb, don't really care if they are pcie3

I've sorta tracked 4 TB prices for the last couple of years.

Quite surprised a couple of hours ago to find out that 4 TB gen 3 Crucial P3 M.2 2280 is $290 at both Newegg and Crucial direct.

Backordered at both.

Not sure how long that has been cheapest name brand I've seen. And NVMe, no less.

Previous low had been Crucial MX500 standard 2.5 inch SATA at about 315 dollars.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Not holding my breath for mainstream affordable 4 and 8 TB SSDs anytime soon, sadly.

 

[jackt]

The P41 2TB is 800$ ( as if unavailable ) and the 1T doesnt exist. so i wouldnt put it in the article pic.

 

[watzupken]

There is a limit as to number of NVM-E SSDs that one can buy and install in their system. So at some point, people will stop buying since they can easily reuse existing SSDs even if they buy a new computer. In the OEM space, people don't keep buying PCs. They did that during the pandemic lockdown to facilitate working/ studying from home. Now that there is no such requirement in most places, PC sales decline/ stagnation is not unexpected.

 

[peachpuff]

Nand prices to tumble? I don't think so, there will be a fire in one of these plants soon and prices will go up again.

 

[Krotow]

we need cheap 2tb & 4tb, don't really care if they are pcie3

been stuck over the years buying 512mb, tops 1tb nvme because anything more it was crazy expensive

got so tired of waiting for a good price , got a 11tb usb3.0 hdd; surprisingly my games don't care being limited to 220mb/s and don't need to shuffle / uninstall

I would bet on reliability more. Losing 2TB and above at one day is not the thing I want. 2 x 1TB NVMe so far turned out good enough for me for both documents, work data and Steam game cache. External drives cover the rest.

Games rarely utillize even 220 MB/s when they are installed. Of course there is strugle during level/texture loading (still hope on DirectStorage and alternatives coming into everyday use soon), but otherwise storage I/O is negligible.