SSD prices

[vazful]

Hey guys. Whats your predictions, will SSD prices drop even more in 2020 and after?

[mariushm]

You'll have more QLC drives, probably going down to around 60$ for 1 TB and 100-150$ for 2 TB

You'll have practically no MLC drives except "pro" series which are expensive, and TLCs will probably be 10-20% cheaper eventually.

I suspect 240 GB will become today's 120GB, as it will make little sense to make 120GB drives anymore (you'll still see them from chinese sellers which will make you ssds with only one nand chip instead of using all 4 channels of a ssd controller)

 

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

my guess based on seeing 1tb bx500 for ~usd76 for some time

- 2.5' sata non cached are getting saturated, price will drop very mildly 

- mid range nvme would be a very competitive market & still have great demand, I predict this would drop in price significantly. and also becoz limited m.2 slots for pc making cost of upgrade a bit high

- large size / fast nvme, they will keep price in somewhat relative high position..

[minibois]

46 minutes ago, mariushm said:

You'll have more QLC drives, probably going down to around 60$ for 1 TB and 100-150$ for 2 TB

You'll have practically no MLC drives except "pro" series which are expensive, and TLCs will probably be 10-20% cheaper eventually.

I suspect 240 GB will become today's 120GB, as it will make little sense to make 120GB drives anymore (you'll still see them from chinese sellers which will make you ssds with only one nand chip instead of using all 4 channels of a ssd controller)

 

WD and Toshiba I believe were thinking about PLC (5 bits per cell) this year as well, so I'm not holding much hope MLC will make a big-time return and the TLC market will probably slowly shift over to QLC.. While the budget QLC drives move over to PLC some day.

That probably won't be next year, but rather a little further out.