SSD Prices to fall to 17¢ per GB in 2017

[Germshroom]

Predictions say that SSD's could fall to 17¢ per GB by 2017. 

 

 

 

A 1TB desktop or laptop hard drive will typically run you somewhere between $50 and $80, and for that kind of money you can still only get a 120GB or 240GB SSD. Pricing has fallen a long way in recent years, though. According to data from DRAMeXchange reported by Computerworld, average pricing for SSDs has fallen from about 99¢ per GB in 2012 to around 68¢ in 2013 and about 39¢ in 2015.

This seems like good news. It will make everything so much faster. Even now a 240Gb ssd is enogh for most people now think of how cheap they will be

 

 

DRAMeXchange projects that pricing will fall to about 24¢ per GB in 2016 and to 17¢ in 2017, lowering the average price for a 1TB SSD to about $170

 

I find this to be great news for future builds. Hopefuly prices keep folowing this trend

 

Source: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/12/ssds-arent-as-cheap-as-hard-drives-yet-but-theyre-getting-there/

[PerfectTemplar]

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/11724-read-before-posting-in-this-section/

[yannickverc]

PCI SSD's will become the new lightning fast storage someone gets while the regular SSD will replace the HDD in builds. I like where this is going. Can't wait to see what'll come after the PCI SSD.

[Zackfoo]

and hdd will soon become like cd. And every average budget build will equipped with minimum of 1tb ssd storage and 128gb of pcie ssd as boot drive.

[Marvzl1357]

and hdd will soon become like cd. And every average budget build will equipped with minimum of 1tb ssd storage and 128gb of pcie ssd as boot drive.

And then pcie ssd prices will fall and then the average build would contain 1tb pcie ssd storage and ummm... yeahhhh i really have no idea what's next, maybe laser storage?

[Vanderburg]

And then pcie ssd prices will fall and then the average build would contain 1tb pcie ssd storage and ummm... yeahhhh i really have no idea what's next, maybe laser storage?

 

 

Isn't a CD-R(W) laser storage?

[That Norwegian Guy]

and hdd will soon become like cd. And every average budget build will equipped with minimum of 1tb ssd storage and 128gb of pcie ssd as boot drive.

 

I want to know what 8 SSDs in Raid 0 taking up only a 5.25" bay feels like.

 

Probably RAM bottlenecked after the third in terms of latency, and after the fifth in terms of bandwith

[Mew]

I got my ssd for less than 24 cents per gigabyte, 850evo 250gb msata for 58 out the door so we're not that far off.

[Germshroom]

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/11724-read-before-posting-in-this-section/

 

What about it. Its not a repost. Please add more info

[DIV1D3]

And then pcie ssd prices will fall and then the average build would contain 1tb pcie ssd storage and ummm... yeahhhh i really have no idea what's next, maybe laser storage?

Phht, in the next couple years everyone wont even be buying storage drives. The Mem Cache on the CPU will be large enough to store all of your porn and Steam games with plenty of space for your other PC backups. 

[Zackfoo]

PURE SSD NAS!

[deviant88]

the future looks fast this news should have come out faster i bought a 850 evo 250gb recently on black friday

[ZetZet]

And then pcie ssd prices will fall and then the average build would contain 1tb pcie ssd storage and ummm... yeahhhh i really have no idea what's next, maybe laser storage?

The fuck is laser storage

[SurvivorNVL]

And then one day we will no longer have physical storage beyond RAM.  I love the future.  

[patrickjp93]

I want to know what 8 SSDs in Raid 0 taking up only a 5.25" bay feels like.

Probably RAM bottlenecked after the third in terms of latency, and after the fifth in terms of bandwith

Definitely not on bandwidth. 2 * (64/8) * 4266 * 10^6 = 68GB/s which is also the same as 4x2133

M.2 SSDs top out at 32Gbps or 4GB/s, so 8*4=32GB/s

As per latency, there's still an order of magnitude difference between RAM and SSD access.

[patrickjp93]

the future looks fast this news should have come out faster i bought a 850 evo 250gb recently on black friday

Should have gotten than Sandisk Ultra II 960GB for $200 like I did.

[Marvzl1357]

The fuck is laser storage

uhhhh i think the proper term for it is 3d optical storage, similar and competing with holographic storage.

Not sure how much faster it'll be but hey it's futuristic right?

pls forgive me

[The Benjamins]

PCI SSD's will become the new lightning fast storage someone gets while the regular SSD will replace the HDD in builds. I like where this is going. Can't wait to see what'll come after the PCI SSD.

 

I dont see much need for normal use cases to have a PCIe SSD. I feel RAID 0 SATA SSD are generally better, cost/preformance. I have RAID 0 SSD, about 1GB/s read write, and I dont see much of any difference to a standard SSD. its nothing like the difference of HDD to SSD.

 

But cant wait to not need HDD anymore, or only use them for mass storage.

[Prysin]

I dont see much need for normal use cases to have a PCIe SSD. I feel RAID 0 SATA SSD are generally better, cost/preformance. I have RAID 0 SSD, about 1GB/s read write, and I dont see much of any difference to a standard SSD. its nothing like the difference of HDD to SSD.

 

But cant wait to not need HDD anymore, or only use them for mass storage.

it's all about space, and number of SATA connections on your mobo...

 

for lower end mobos, whih only has like 2-4 SATA 6GB/s ports

 

RAID = 2 or more discs....

[farhanorakzai]

and hdd will soon become like cd. And every average budget build will equipped with minimum of 1tb ssd storage and 128gb of pcie ssd as boot drive.

Don't pcie ssd's have slower boot times than sata ones?

[Doobeedoo]

In 2017 I'll probably get 1TB SSD
Nice to see prices falling and capacity rising for SSDs 

[Arty]

PCI SSD's will become the new lightning fast storage someone gets while the regular SSD will replace the HDD in builds. I like where this is going. Can't wait to see what'll come after the PCI SSD.

Ram Disks Maybe

 

Don't pcie ssd's have slower boot times than sata ones?

Only reason would be cause of the mobo and an update would fix that.

[The Benjamins]

it's all about space, and number of SATA connections on your mobo...

 

for lower end mobos, whih only has like 2-4 SATA 6GB/s ports

 

RAID = 2 or more discs....

 

Ya but you already can get 2TB sata SSD's so that is 4 TB for a 2 port MOBO or 8 TB on a 4 port MOBO. I don't think that is a problem at all. I have 1TB of SSD space while only using 2 ports on my MOBO that has around 8 ports. 

[Norseman4]

I dont see much need for normal use cases to have a PCIe SSD. I feel RAID 0 SATA SSD are generally better, cost/preformance. I have RAID 0 SSD, about 1GB/s read write, and I dont see much of any difference to a standard SSD. its nothing like the difference of HDD to SSD.

 

But cant wait to not need HDD anymore, or only use them for mass storage.

 

I have an M.2 on the underside of my mITX board. No extra cables or connectors make it the ultimate clean component. Imagine a build with 24 pin ATX, 4/8 pin CPU and a single cable going to the GPU and still having 2 or more drives.

[themaniac]

I have an M.2 on the underside of my mITX board. No extra cables or connectors make it the ultimate clean component. Imagine a build with 24 pin ATX, 4/8 pin CPU and a single cable going to the GPU and still having 2 or more drives.

or how about this, just hear me out, wireless power, or psus built into motherboards