When Will SSD Be Cheap/Mainstream?

[grahamnp]

That's nonsense. What matters is the price of NAND flash chips and those are manufactured by very few companies and this won't change. Unless they mispredict demand and prices plummet like DDR3 they dictate the price of the most important stuff in an SSD. It doesn't matter if more and more companies like OWC, OCZ ... stuff more nand into everything.
Actually the kickoff was many years ago with the ipods and nand flash is not at all new that stuff is as mature as it is going to get. The only reason they started putting it into SSDs is because it finally got cheap enough and because of finally some decent MLC controllers.

A wafer costs a certain amount and you just don't understand the industry if you still think that it is just a new technology that still needs more adoption to drive prices down.

NAND prices have been falling for a long time and the cost of the wafer isn't exactly relevant. If you've actually been keeping up with developments, you'd realise that most of the savings are coming from new manufacturing processes which means more NAND per wafer. Advancements in manufacturing processes are driven by increased demand

 

[mountains]

I guarantee we will see ~100 dollar 128 SSDs this black Friday. That's what I'm waiting for anyways.


Oh and its crazy how I knew that was a best buy ad up there by just looking at the bottom. I'm only 19.

That's a 40-50% discount on current prices for most 120 GB SSDs, so... good luck?

At best, you'll get an outdated Sata II drive.

 

[dusk007]

NAND prices have been falling for a long time and the cost of the wafer isn't exactly relevant. If you've actually been keeping up with developments, you'd realise that most of the savings are coming from new manufacturing processes which means more NAND per wafer. Advancements in manufacturing processes are driven by increased demand

Never said anything else except for the last sentence. Advancements are driven by expected demand(money), luck and time. If 3 times as many people want to buy something it doesn't change a bit. Associate the right cause with a given effect is something that is really difficult it seems. Otherwise religion would be in trouble.
Seriously read again and try to understand because you clearly failed. If I just didn't express myself clearly enough ask on the unclear bits but the conclusion you ended up at just makes no sense at all unless you didn't even try understand what I wrote.

 

[IC3D]

I'll be on the look out for at least one SSD for my MBP 2009, but I think the 2009 MBP's are limited to 1.5gbps... so others with the 2009 MBP should keep that in mind also.

 

[Young Spade]

Never said anything else except for the last sentence. Advancements are driven by expected demand(money), luck and time. If 3 times as many people want to buy something it doesn't change a bit. Associate the right cause with a given effect is something that is really difficult it seems. Otherwise religion would be in trouble.
Seriously read again and try to understand because you clearly failed. If I just didn't express myself clearly enough ask on the unclear bits but the conclusion you ended up at just makes no sense at all unless you didn't even try understand what I wrote.

Welcome to MacRumors. It doesn't get any better.

 

[mnsportsgeek]

I guarantee we will see ~100 dollar 128 SSDs this black Friday. That's what I'm waiting for anyways.


Oh and its crazy how I knew that was a best buy ad up there by just looking at the bottom. I'm only 19.

You mean the yellow price tags didn't jump out at you?

 

[Young Spade]

Why are people bumping year old topics?

 

[nuckinfutz]

I like SSD !


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