When do you think we'll be seeing 200+GB SSD's at under $1/GB?

[Hulk]

Over the last month or so we've seen the Intel 320 160GB and smaller and a few other drives priced at $1/GB. But very few if any of the larger drives going at that rate. Do you think we'll start to see the larger drives come down in price as well? They must have old stock to move on those as well right? Or perhaps they produced far less anticipating smaller demand so they can hold the prices?

 

[bryanW1995]

I saw some 200+ gb drives for around 1.05/gb on BF AR. Heck, OCZ has a 240gb drive today on newegg here for only $268 shipped with no MIR, so we're almost there already.

 

[Subyman]

I saw some 200+ gb drives for around 1.05/gb on BF AR. Heck, OCZ has a 240gb drive today on newegg here for only $268 shipped with no MIR, so we're almost there already.

I think he means normal price. It will be a while before the MSRP of the drives hit 1$/gb.

 

[peonyu]

there is to much money being made now off of SSD's priced the way there are now. not much reason to try and make them cheaper. I would say its 2 years off atleast, barring "black friday" type of sales.

 

[bryanW1995]

I didn't read it that way at all. He asked when you'll be able to buy a >200 gb ssd for $1/gb, and I linked one for sale RIGHT NOW with no MIR for $1.12/gb.

 

[Soulkeeper]

I think early/mid next year we'll see $1/GB as common place
once this holiday demand simmers down a bit and supply builds up

Just my thinking

 

[Hulk]

I am talking about the price you can buy them for, not retail. Just seems as though there has recently been quite a few $1/GB SSD's in the 160GB or smaller capacity but very few at that price in the larger size.

Normally items are reduced in price when supply far exceeds demand and/or new products are coming along with better price/performance ratios. As I wrote above I have a feeling the smaller drives were sourced at a much higher ratio to the larger ones. And that is holding the prices up on the larger drives. For example, for every ten 120GB Intel 320 drives Intel may have produced 1 300GB model. There isn't a lot of supply so they don't feel the need to move them like they do the smaller drives.

 

[bryanW1995]

It will be interesting to see going forward what happens with ssd prices. Right now, anything from 60-160gb is in that $1 per gb range, with one or 2 over 200 gb that also creep pretty close ( like 1.10-1.30 per gb ). If we start seeing 300-400 gb ssd's also creep down next year then I think we might start to finally see more mainstream ssd adoption. If my choice is Btwn a 120 gb ssd or a 2 tb wd black then it's pretty easy, but what about 256 gb plus a USB 3.0 external data drive? Seagate and wd are in for a world of hurt in the next few years.