Storage Solutions SSD Prices Falling Faster Than HDD Prices

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While SSDs remain considerably more expensive than hard drives on a per GB level, the flash-based storage devices are coming down in prices much faster than HDDs have.

According to the data released, SSD memory cost 120 times as much as HDD memory in 2007, but only 32 times as much in 2011. The average price for a HDD per GB was $0.075 in 2011, the SSD cost $2.42 per GB. The lowest per GB price for a SSD was $1.50, while HDD could be purchased for $0.053 per GB. According to Pingdom, the 2011 average price per GB for the SSD is about the same as it was for HDD in 2002. SSDs are expected to be priced at about $1 per GB sometime in the second half of next year.

Despite the rapid price decline, it is unlikely that SSDs will be matching the price level of hard drives anytime soon unless hard drive technology will hit a substantial physical barrier. That barrier has been pushed out continuously for as long as modern hard drive has existed. The most recent increase in capacities has been driven by perpendicular magnetic recording technology and it appears that heat-assisted magnetic recording could surface in 2013 or 2014 to push the limits even further. Seagate, for example, believes that heat assisted recording will increase the maximum storage density of perpendicular magnetic recording by at least 50x.
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SSD Prices Falling Faster Than HDD Prices
 
because HDD still have a bit of mechanical devices which shows in the overall costs.

for SDD is all transistors so with time they may beat HDDs.
 
Revolution said:
So,we can expect 128GB SSD @2K in India very soon ?.....
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It all depends on how bigger size of ssd hit the market

I guess right now 256gb ssd is hitting the market.So when twice of this meaning 1024 gb hits chances of 128gb going low will get high.But i dont see it that cheaper so soon.May be 2013-2014.
 
MAGNeT said:
It all depends on how bigger size of ssd hit the market

I guess right now 256gb ssd is hitting the market.So when twice of this meaning 1024 gb hits chances of 128gb going low will get high.But i dont see it that cheaper so soon.May be 2013-2014.
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Twice of 256 is 512 GB... :P

When would SSD reach 1TB & beyond... Affordable that is..
 
In true sense this is bound to happen. manufacturers are using the skimming pricing technique (all my study paid off
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) for a new technology and banking big monies, where in the fact is they are easy to make as compared to a conventional HDD. Expect these prices to be real and in future, motherboards with an extension for PCI slot boards
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