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Super Talent lowers price of SSDs, again

by Scott Bicheno on 30 September 2008, 14:14

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Tipping point

We feel that we're looking at an SSD/HDD price ratio of at most 3:1 before SSDs start to ship in real volume but we'd like to hear what you think? Do you already have one and if not, what would prices have to drop to before you do?

If you're a system builder or retailer, what sort of demand have you experienced for SSDs or systems containing them? What do you think the tipping point will be for mass adoption? Let us know in the HEXUS.community.


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Posted by Webby - Tue 30 Sep 2008 14:52
My personal view is that I would want to be looking at 64GB SSD with decent read write speeds (like the OCZ Core v2) but priced at about £100 before I would be considering it, obviously long term storage will still be catered for by standard HDDs ideally I would be looking at £75 but realise that isn't going to be happening any time soon.

The real boon I can see for them will be the HTPC market where silence is really valued, eliminating HDD noise completely would be worth a premium in that situation, only problem would be capacity but perhaps networked storage would be the answer.
Posted by s1lv3r - Tue 30 Sep 2008 15:43
Unless I'm missing something really fundamental.. why should SSD technology always be more expensive ongoing than platter based drives as suggested in the first page of this article?

Surely the manufacturing process is far easier/cost effective in SSD's?
They're not subject to the same requirements on vacuum seals, hyper accurate machining of components.. etc.

Unless the physical chips differ in significant ways from already mass market items from the major chip manufacturers I can't see why eventually the SSD would not be even lower cost than the mechanical alternatives.
Posted by shaithis - Tue 30 Sep 2008 16:19
Unless I am missing something, that is plain wrong as you say.

Completely different manufacturing process means that at some stage, SSDs will become less then hard drives. It may take many years but it should happen (unless another technology comes along and supersedes SSDs in the mean-time)
Posted by Scott B - Tue 30 Sep 2008 16:28
Fair point, I should have said “for the foreseeable future” instead of “always”.
Posted by Stoo - Tue 30 Sep 2008 16:35
I look forward to Scan reducing the price from £1,679.11… :eek:

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