How long before 256GB or more SSDs below $300?

[flanamac]

For those with two hard drives, two of these would be wonderful.

Right now, we are looking at the Crucial 256GB SSD at around $700 from www.otherworldcomputing.com.

Ideally, I would love to have two of these for nor more than $500 total.

Thoughts?

I have noticed that you can get the 8GB DDR3 RAM upgrade kit from OWC for $360, which is over a 100% drop from the same time last year.

Perhaps the drives are on a similar trend, but the timing may take longer.

 

[MacMini2009]

When companies stop making hard drives, then we'll see.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

In about a years time, I will want a new MBP. But an SSD and a new battery would work just as well. Hopefully the price drops by then!

 

[fehhkk]

Seeing that the Intels X-25Ms Generation 2 are still in the $500s range for $160, they have barely gone down $100 in 6 months (their original MSRP was $450, which I got it for)...

With that, personally I don't see SSDs going down in price much in the next year. I would say, in 3 years they will be mainstream equipment for laptops.

 

[Falk3r]

Q4 2010

Q4 2010

Intel will have their SSD's down to a 25nm scale, resulting in either 2x HDD sizes at a similar price... or similar size at 1/2 the price.

Source - Engadget

Won't be exactly $1 / 1gb, but we'll be getting a lot closer. I'd estimate ~$240/160gb.

 

[DarthSnuggles]

Nor are all SSDs created equal. There are cheaper, but slower ones out there.

 

[0eyvind]

...for $360, which is over a 100% drop from the same time last year.

...

 

[Absent]

Someday soon.

http://www.physorg.com/news185438129.html

 

[Jaro65]

You're right. The uMBP RAM went down substantially, but as you noticed the SSD price points have really gone nowhere over the last 6 months or so. I am very much on the sidelines, hoping for both a capacity boost and a price drop, but it looks like it may easily be another couple of years before SSDs become more mainstream.

 

[erico.antonio]

Greetings all...
Just joined the forum a few minutes ago.
What about the Mercury Extreme Enterprise SSD?? Anyone used one yet? Seems to be the call for the moment. I'm going to try one this week.
Here's a video of it in action from OWC.
http://videos.macsales.com/podcasts/owctv/ssd-speed-test-feb-10.mov

I hope I'm not breaking any rules by posting a link as this is my first post.

 

[flanamac]

Ideally, I would like 2 200 GB Mercury's for around $450 or less. Won't be tomorrow, but perhaps a year from now.

I agree, that these are the best made and highest performance SSDs as of now.

Greetings all...
Just joined the forum a few minutes ago.
What about the Mercury Extreme Enterprise SSD?? Anyone used one yet? Seems to be the call for the moment. I'm going to try one this week.
Here's a video of it in action from OWC.
http://videos.macsales.com/podcasts/owctv/ssd-speed-test-feb-10.mov

I hope I'm not breaking any rules by posting a link as this is my first post.

 

[bigaudiofanatic]

In about a years time, I will want a new MBP. But an SSD and a new battery would work just as well. Hopefully the price drops by then!

I agree I say by the third quarter of this year they will be way down in price.

 

[Jaro65]

Newegg now has 512MB 2.5" SSDs available. But at about $1400, this is not something very many people are going to buy.

 

[kellen]

I am going to say not this year, possibly at Black Friday. With the 128 being over 300, I don't see one with twice the size being less.

 

[Denarius]

If I was entering a sweepstake, I'd plump for April 2012.