News - Higher capacity SSD drive prices falling in line

[HEXUS]

High capacity drives now tend to have a lower cost per GB.

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[forsaken991]

Dabs have a OCZ Technology 256GB Octane Series 3 drive for £109

http://www.dabs.com/products/ocz-tec...V1Q.html?src=2

[whitetop]

im so glad as this s2 oc 64gb gets filled up very quick with my video encoding but great on speeds still

[mtyson]

It says £119.98, do you have a discount code?
At the £119.98 price it is about 47p per GB.

Dabs have a OCZ Technology 256GB Octane Series 3 drive for £109

http://www.dabs.com/products/ocz-tec...V1Q.html?src=2

[forsaken991]

Got sent the offer via email, here is the link from the email http://www.dabs.com/products/ocz-tec...m_content=i800

Shows at £109.99 for me

[Brewster0101]

Normal hard drives are slowly fallen back in price too. £50 for 1GB drive are available now.

[OilSheikh]

Normal hard drives are slowly fallen back in price too. £50 for 1GB drive are available now.

Damn, that's not a fall, that is more like a humongous spike!

[snootyjim]

Normal hard drives are slowly fallen back in price too. £50 for 1GB drive are available now.

Damn, I'd just bought this one:

[ilh]

Can't believe how much the prices have come down. I paid about £1/GB a few months ago for my M4.

[spoon_]

Normal hard drives are slowly fallen back in price too. £50 for 1GB drive are available now.

Damn, that's not a fall, that is more like a humongous spike!

Damn, I'd just bought this one:

Brewster0101's system ==> Samsung F3 1GB and Crucial M4 128 SSD - its not a joke guys!

[fusioned]

"Normal hard drives" are finally reaching the pricing levels just before the Thai floods.
I brought a pair of 2TB Seagate Green drives exactly a year ago - they were £60 each back in late 2011, and now, the cheapest 2TB drives are around £70.

Considering they hit over £200 each at their peak, it's much easier to swallow now (imagine though if the decision nowadays was between a high capacity HDD, or a SSD with 1/4 of the capacity at the same price!), but the price decline does seem to be slowing down (according to The Tech Report).

Looking forward to £200 512 SSDs when they arrive!

[bobharvey]

Cutting supply to raise prices is contrary to international corruption law if the manufacturers act together to do it.

[gagaga]

Now if they can sort out the failure rates....

[avi8tor]

It says £119.98, do you have a discount code?
At the £119.98 price it is about 47p per GB.

Dabs have a OCZ Technology 256GB Octane Series 3 drive for £109

http://www.dabs.com/products/ocz-tec...V1Q.html?src=2

£119 for me too

[Roobubba]

Now if they can sort out the failure rates....

Been using an Intel 80GB G2 for several years with no problems. I see lots of anecdotal evidence of medium/long-term stability of SSDs. I've known of more hard drive failures than SSD failures (partly because of the far more widespread prevalence of HDDs of course). In fact, while I think about it, I don't know anyone who has had an SSD failure (and I've witnessed lots of HDD failures in that same time frame).

Do you have a particular reference for the comparatively high failure rate of SSDs that you imply?

[snootyjim]

OCZ and SandForce don't have a great record colloquially, but to suggest that SSDs are inherently unreliable is pretty daft.