Trendforce: SSD Price-per-GB Could Drop as Low as $0.1 by Year's End

A report from technology market analyst Trendforce places SSD's pricing in sharp decline, with price per GB being projected to hit as low as $0.1 by year's end. Citing oversupply in the NADN flash market and an impending price war to allow manufacturers to sell out accumulating inventory, this is one of those clear cases of a win for consumers - which, after the shenanigans in the DRAM market, is about time. Trendforce further states that the price reductions should render 128 GB SSDs obsolete, as they mostly are by now, with 512 GB capacities becoming the mainstream choice for system integrators and DIY.

Pricing evolution in the market also places premium NVMe solutions at an only 6% premium over SATA offerings, showcasing the increased cost savings that manufacturers have achieved with the reduction in price for NVMe controllers, and the lower amount of physical materials needed to put an NVMe SSD together compared to a SATA-based alternative. Furthermore, Trendforce says that value PCIe-based solutions have a 0% price difference compared to SATA-based ones, so the option for the older form factor should only fall upon how many NVMe/PCIe sockets users' motherboards have available to populate.
 

 

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It's a bit of good news. I am very glad to see SSD prices drop to the point in which 2TB drives are now very reasonable. We are now at the point that if prices fall just 25% this year you could pick up a 2TB drive for like $150. At that point why even look at 512GB since you might as well just toss a 1TB in.

MasterMiner
All it takes is one lost ssd drive and the $$$ spent on a 2-bit (as opposed to multi-bit, 3+) controller is worth every penny. I’ll gladly pay whatever premium is required for Samsung 9xx Pro with the premium 2-bit controller. It’s pennies compared to losing months worth of work to a cheap, corrupted ssd.

I use the Samsung Pro in my builds - because they are so robust & fast 
 
5 yr warranty from Samsung .. never had to use it