#4760615

sverek

2014-02-06 11:22

yeah, for past few years it was srs battle for a new market. Someone got its piece, someone got nothing and someone got punched too hard (*cough*OCZ*cough*).

#4760665

dcx_badass

2014-02-06 12:28

Shame, in the UK at least they're still more expensive than they were 18 months ago.

#4760709

Tripkebab

2014-02-06 13:29

Shame, in the UK at least they're still more expensive than they were 18 months ago.

Agreed, 120gb SSD's were retailing at £50 last year, cheapest you can find them now is around the £70 mark. Hopefully as larger capacities start to become avaialble (as sammy is setting the trend with the new 1tb ones) we will see further price drops. I want to see 4tb ssd going for <£250 in 3 yrs please. Then over the next few years after that we can phase out those ancient spinny mechanicle things.

#4760756

TheDeeGee

2014-02-06 14:26

I want to see 4tb ssd going for <£250 in 3 yrs please. Then over the next few years after that we can phase out those ancient spinny mechanicle things.

They should simply make large storage SSDs with slower speeds. 250 Read/Write is enough for storage. But all they do is focus on making them faster and faster.

#4760757

mjw

2014-02-06 14:28

How suitable are SSD's for cold storage ie write once then occasionally read

#4760964

Tripkebab

2014-02-06 19:36

How suitable are SSD's for cold storage ie write once then occasionally read

I would say very, it's the writes that kills them eventually.

#4760997

FerCam™

2014-02-06 20:16

What is strange is the HDD's still being cheaper, given that precision mechanics are very expensive, even though OCZ got bankrupt...

#4761258

natr0n

2014-02-07 04:04

What is strange is the HDD's still being cheaper, given that precision mechanics are very expensive, even though OCZ got bankrupt...

It's called price fixing.

#4761262

Loobyluggs

2014-02-07 04:36

They should simply make large storage SSDs with slower speeds. 250 Read/Write is enough for storage. But all they do is focus on making them faster and faster.

Could be argued that's what crucial did - they went for reliability over speed. The cynical few will say its because they don't know how to make fast drives...