SSD NAND prices dropping - price could further half this year

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/15/2019 08:35 AM | source: | 23 comment(s)

Solid State Drives are becoming increasingly cheaper, it is now reported that there is an oversupply of flash memory with low demand for notebooks and smartphones back. This year, the priced could be halved compared to what it was last year.

NAND manufacturers want to reduce the production of flash memory. In addition, investments are expected to fall by two percent, having already been dropped by ten percent last year. DRAMeXchange expects that prices for Flash memory products will be around 20 percent in the first quarter of 2019. For the second quarter, and maybe 15 percent and in the last two quarters, it will be another ten percent per quarter. For the year, the price of flash memory would be roughly be reduced by half.

Below an example of the Crucial BX500 480GB released in the Summer of 2018, you can clearly see the trend.

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tunejunky
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#5627778 Posted on: 01/15/2019 05:29 PM

idk about 50% drop, plausible though.

what i do know is OEM systems are going to be a rip-off until summer as the memory was sourced at higher prices.

but there will be a price war as WD fully integrates Toshiba's production of NAND and Micron wants US and Euro sales to make up for Chinese issues.

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#5627797 Posted on: 01/15/2019 05:52 PM

Might be a good opportunity for me to upgrade my home server. Right now it has a RAID1 setup with a couple of 7200RPM laptop drives. They're plenty fast enough (considering my network is limited to 1Gbps anyway) and aren't showing signs of failure, but I like the idea of something being more reliable and more energy efficient. Switching to a single drive, I could also finally switch to ARM and ditch x86 (RAID isn't really achievable on ARM, at least not cost-effectively).

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#5627828 Posted on: 01/15/2019 06:52 PM

Micron has bought 100% of Intel's interests in Optane.
look for AMD compatibility to be advertised (it always worked but was sold as Intel)
as well as new sizes and formats (i.e. M.2, pcie, 2.5").
also a price reduction. Micron has troubles in China and is doubling down on the first world.

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#5627850 Posted on: 01/15/2019 07:35 PM

Speaking of SSD... Any chance to see new SSD that takes advantage of PCI-E 4 this year? (since Ryzen 3XXX is coming with PCI-E 4)

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#5627863 Posted on: 01/15/2019 08:06 PM

that would be great would be 1TB under 100$, I would love to put SSD into my ps4

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