how long before SSD hits the 50cent a GB price point?

[Hugo Drax]

ie: where you can get a 512gb model for 256 bucks.

50 cent price point will definitely help grow the market further. I think by mid 2013 we get there for the 50 cent price point for good SSDs (not old stock being cleared out)

by 2015 probably 25 cents a GB

1TB SSD for 250 bucks. You will see major adoption beginning once the 25 cent threshold is crossed.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I saw some refurb Corsair Force SSDs selling for around that price-point on tech.woot.com a few days ago.

 

[Hellhammer]

240GB Agility 3 is currently selling for $140 at Tiger Direct

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...vhc_3gAJF7QmAA

$0.50/GB is getting close if sales are included, but it will take a while before the average price is around that.

 

[ericloewe]

I got my 256GB Samsung 830 for ~0,70€ per GB.

We're getting there, slowly but surely.

 

[Eug]

240GB Agility 3 is currently selling for $140 at Tiger Direct

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...vhc_3gAJF7QmAA

$0.50/GB is getting close if sales are included, but it will take a while before the average price is around that.

I think a better question is "How long before non-OCZ SSD hits the 50 cent a GB price point?".

 

[greenhawk]

50 cent price point will definitely help grow the market further.

people have been saying something similar with $1/GB.

It will get here when it does, and you can just use your own choice as to when the price vs performance is suitable for you (I got my first SSD at $3/GB).

 

[exdeath]

1TB SSD for 250 bucks. You will see major adoption beginning once the 25 cent threshold is crossed.

Lol more like $1500.

Price scales exponentially. Everyone always milks the "high end" products that are 1% better than the next product.

 

[Red Squirrel]

In a way I hope they don't become too cheap, or HDDs might go away or become business only and be marked up ridiculously. HDD's still have a very good place when it comes to high I/O mass storage systems where you don't want to worry about how much it is written to.

 

[Skott]

It'll be interesting to see what the Holiday sales offer. Particularly what is offered on Black Friday.

 

[paul878]

Black Friday deals are for suckers, you have to be damn lucky to get it.

 

[Emulex]

not really. Just need to time things right online.

You do end up with more junk than necessary and the falling prices are reducing resale value of such goods 🙁

 

[sequoia464]

Black Friday deals are for suckers, you have to be damn lucky to get it.

You don't go to Best Buy and wait for hours to rush the doors at opening time, just to find that everything worthwhile has already been purchased or hidden by an employee?

 

[exdeath]

In a way I hope they don't become too cheap, or HDDs might go away or become business only and be marked up ridiculously. HDD's still have a very good place when it comes to high I/O mass storage systems where you don't want to worry about how much it is written to.

Wut? 😱

 

[Skott]

Black Friday deals are for suckers, you have to be damn lucky to get it.

Not really. Like said above you have to be aware and time it right. Also, last year NE had some good sales during the whole Nov/Dec months. Hopefully no tsunmis this summer to mess things up like they did last year.

 

[tweakboy]

Its already there almost.

 

[AE-Ruffy]

i say within a year. there's already been a huge drop this year.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wut? 😱

SSDs have limited writes. You don't want those in a server unless you want to be replacing them all the time.

Issue is because their failure is based on usage and not random, even with raid, there is a good chance they all fail at once as they'll mostly get equal writes. When you have a SAN with 24+ drives the last thing you want is to have to replace every single drive every couple years, or more often depending on the load.

SSDs are great as an OS drive, and that's it. If your OS craps out, replace the drive, reimage and you are good to go, the data is on the server.

 

[Carson Dyle]

1TB SSD for 250 bucks. You will see major adoption beginning once the 25 cent threshold is crossed.

You don't think we're already seeing major adoption? I think we are. It may take something like < $0.25 / GB before it appears in $300 netbooks, but it's already becoming prevalent in lower priced desktops and laptops.

I don't anticipate SSD completely replacing spinning hard disks for many many years, if ever. HDD capacity and cost per GB will continue to fall, and we will always have massive amounts of data to be stored that doesn't need to be kept on the fastest media available. Someday it will be nice to have an affordable 2 TB of SSD storage in my desktop computer, but by then I'll also have a 50 or 100 TB file server or NAS on my network.

 

[ericloewe]

SSDs have limited writes. You don't want those in a server unless you want to be replacing them all the time.

Issue is because their failure is based on usage and not random, even with raid, there is a good chance they all fail at once as they'll mostly get equal writes. When you have a SAN with 24+ drives the last thing you want is to have to replace every single drive every couple years, or more often depending on the load.

SSDs are great as an OS drive, and that's it. If your OS craps out, replace the drive, reimage and you are good to go, the data is on the server.

SSDs don't magically fail after precisely X writes. Ignoring cost/performance considerations, they are probably safer than HDDs for server use - do you really write that much? On the other hand, an HDD would definitely approach its point of failure just by idling - an idle SSD wouldn't.

If you do have a large SAN, dead disks are unavoidable. In the end, independently of the technology, you will need/want to replace every single drive after "a few years".

 

[Magic Carpet]

Next year 😛