When will large SSDs be cheap?

[TSE]

For example, I currently have a 750gb Hard Drive in my MacBook Pro.

I am only going to upgrade to a SSD of equal, or bigger size, and don't want to spend a fortune.

When will 750GB - 1TB SSDs be priced around $150-$200?

Total guesstimation, just for fun thread.

[Tsunade_Hime]

A couple of years? 256 GB SSDs are already the 200 dollar range, less than 1 dollar per GB mark. Just 6 years ago, a 64 GB SLC Samsung SSD was 1000 dollars...so the future looks bright.

[whitrzac]

2.5in 1tb HDDs are still $100...


IMO it will be 5+- years

[NotEnoughMinerals]

5+ years, unless you're willing to use "old" tech SSDs.

[homank76]

I'm going to say at least 10 years as there is nothing to compete against technology to drive down prices. The only reason the platters dropped so much is cause of the SSD.

[GTRagnarok]

Why are the 128GB and 256GB SSDs going down so much but not the 512GB? I've been using a 240GB and would prefer to upgrade to 512GB, not 256GB.

[HTWingNut]

Problem is that the prices go down so slowly. I see part of that reason is if there's ever a decent deal the drives sell out in minutes, which tells OEM's that the price is too low. If they didn't sell that well at those lower price points then it might show them that the costs are too high still.

[invisible]

When will large SSDs be cheap?

When this happens.


But seriously, as SSD capacity grows, the "largest" ones will always be more expensive, and I think will remain prohibitively expensive (for the majority of users) for some time to come.

[MidnightSun]

I'm going to say at least 10 years as there is nothing to compete against technology to drive down prices. The only reason the platters dropped so much is cause of the SSD.

Uh... no. It's more the competition between the HDD industry giants, which is even more cutthroat than the competition between flash manufacturers. SSD adoption is even now still too marginal to really truly threaten HDD demand in computers. What's worrying HDD manufacturers more is the increasing adoption of tablets, where HDDs are not as practical.

Considering I bought my 80GB SSD for $189 used and my 64GB SSD for $100 used, I'd say that in a few years, we'll be seeing more affordable 128GB+ SSDs. Already, a large number of semi-knowledgeable computer users know about solid state drives and are looking for them in their next laptops.

[Qing Dao]

I went laptop shopping yesterday and the store had 100+ laptops on display. Only a couple of netbooks and a mac had SSD's.