If that's true, I hope that reduces SSD/Flash prices for consumers.

veemjeem · on June 13, 2012

It's crazy how fast the prices are dropping. I feel like they dropped by 40% in the last 6 months. The cheapest 2.5" drive available on newegg is now a flash drive. It's probably hard to make a spindle drive any cheaper than $50 for laptops. I have a feeling the prices are going to similar to usb thumb drives soon.

It's under $1 per GB on SSDs now, which is definitely affordable for average consumers (around $90 for 128GB).

I bought a 256GB SSD in Feb this year for around $360. That exact same drive is now $260.

bingaling · on June 13, 2012

They've been dropping: http://camelcamelcamel.com/SAMSUNG-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-7PC2...

tumblen · on June 13, 2012

November 2011 I bought a Samsung 470 128GB for $199.

2 weeks ago I bought a Samsung 830 (faster) 256GB (twice as big) for $220.

The price drop is pretty amazing.

commandar · on June 13, 2012

Newegg had 120GB 830s for $89 earlier this morning, for a more apples-to-apples comparison.

photojosh · on June 14, 2012

The beauty is that SSD/Flash pricing is directly affected by Moore's law... so as has happened with RAM, prices halve / capacity doubles roughly every 18 months. AFAICT hard drives seem to increase capacity fairly linearly, so we might very well have a cross-over within a decade.