An interesting new report is stating that SSD prices could fall to below $1 per gigabyte by the end of the year…
While any price drop in SSDs will probably help sales, at $1 per gigabyte the technology is still much, much more expensive than conventional hard drives. Hard drive space costs less than $0.10 per gigabyte on average, making it just a tenth as expensive as SSD space. While the speed advantages of SSDs are tempting, so is the prospect of either paying less for the same amount of space, or paying more for ten times the amount of space.
Whilst I do love the speed of the SSD, it’s hard to justify the massive difference in cost when it’s limited to such small sized. Roll on the change I say!
via Tested.