Not everyone needs the storage capacity of hard drives. In addition, in many applications, the use of an SSD disk offers a considerable advantage over the old magnetic disks. It’s because of it falling SSD prices It is something that is always appreciated. What are the causes ?
There is nothing that annoys us more than having to say SSD hard drive, which is a huge conceptual error for a very clear fact, a hard drive and an SSD, despite the fact that they serve the same purpose, store data, work differently. The problem is that we’ve been talking about the standardization of SSDs for a long time. Why doesn’t it happen? Well, for a very simple fact, they are still below hard drives in storage, even below what is minimally necessary for the applications that use this type of device the most.
A Massive SSD Price Drop Is Coming
Take for example the new Call of Duty Modern Warfare II, to install it we will need our computer to have 177 GB of available storage, this is more than a third of what the vast majority of gaming laptops include as basic storage. they sell. This is why many games have yet to make the final leap from HDD to SSD. And that this type of applications as well as others related to content creation that benefit the most.
Obviously the issue is the price of storage, however, as new gear comes out that ditch standard HDDs for SSDs, the price of these seems to be sliding down an unbridled slope. This is at least the case in the Chinese market, where For example, the Samsung 980 1 TB went from 1400 yuan or 203 dollars to 700 yuan or 101.5 dollars.. That is to say a 50% off. The price of such a unit in our country? Currently, it is over $150. This therefore means that we could see a drop in the price of SSDs in general also in the West and in return in our country.
In any case, it must be taken into account that the situation in each part of the world is different, in particular because of the question of taxes on products and distribution costs. In any case, a massive drop in SSD prices is always welcome for those of us who want a new unit of this type in our computer.
What is the cause?
Apparently the two years of the pandemic and the bottleneck in the distribution and production of new computers meant that, as happened with graphics cards, flash memory chips are now in excess inventory. All this would have led to a phenomenon where there is a supply, in volume, much higher than the current demand and, therefore, a price war would have entered from which we could benefit.
