Affordable 1TB SSD for Normal People
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The Register looks at a roundup of eight real world 1TB SSD drives that normal consumers can reasonably afford today. They also look at the technologies that are driving the dropping of prices and increasing capacities and what SSDs will look like in the near future. SSD prices are still much higher than the per GB prices of Winchester drives, for the moment, but the prices are rapidly converging and SSDs are already available in sizes more than 60% larger than Winchester drives today and will likely be double them, or more, within months. The pace of SSD advancement is extreme while Winchesters struggle hard after decades of honing.
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I would not call those prices affordable for consumers when they hit £100 or less then yes but over £200 no.
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@hobbit666 said:
I would not call those prices affordable for consumers when they hit £100 or less then yes but over £200 no.
I'll give you that, it's not consumer, it's prosumer range right now.
What I want to know is when will HP, Dell etc start shipping all machines with SSDs.
I think one thing that keeps them in Winchester drives is consistency of price. SSDs are still changing their prices wildly and rapidly. Winnchester's aren't.
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@Dashrender said:
Winnchester's aren't.
Problem with SSD is they are falling in price, so no one wants to stock them because you'll start losing money the minute you make the order. Company like Dell orders a zillion of them and loses some small percent per day which adds up multiplied by a zillion.
Give it a year or two and it'll change.
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Companies like Dell/HP/Lenovo are getting around the SSD issue by adding 200% markups to them
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@Breffni-Potter said:
Companies like Dell/HP/Lenovo are getting around the SSD issue by adding 200% markups to them
Don't get me started!!!
(I was mad, which is rare... I think I had just gotten off the phone with my sales rep lol)
