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Will SSDs Keep On Getting Cheaper?

fishymamba
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Hey guys! So I'm pretty happy with my PC right now, its not really up to date, but it has more than enough power for me and I don't really see myself upgrading in the next couple years. The only thing my PC is lacking is a SSD. I was looking at prices and they are already so much lower than a couple years ago when I was building my computer.

 

I kinda want to get one right away, but I don't really NEED it ASAP if in the next few months there will be another price drop. Have the SSD prices stagnated or will they keep on going down?

 

I'm looking to get a ~250GB SATA SSD, but those PCI SSDs are looking really awesome to me. 

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They're gonna be at a little standstill because Christmas, but SSDs go down in small steps.

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PCIE SSDs are stupidly overpriced but Sata SSDs have been getting cheaper.

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SSDs go down...

 

even the high end ones do. take the Kingston Predator M.2 250GB SSD... it has dropped by 45 bucks since june where i live...

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They go down gradually. I can't see PCIe SSDs going down in price any time soon though.

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SSD prices are directly correlated with the density achieve from the silicon process and the number of layers they can stack on a single die. Both of which are decreasing more or less in line with Moore's law right now. So you can expect prices for the dies to halve every 2 years or so. There is also a fixed cost element to the SSD as well that will remain as is but we should see ever decreasing prices until such a time that they can't decrease the capacitor size due to electron migration issues (already a big problem really) and additional layers become infeasible (not an issue yet).

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At MicroCenter, SAMSUNG 950 PRO 512GB M.2 PCIe X4 drives are currently 20 USD less than typical retail.

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