Thread: Solid-state drive costs

Just I familiar that in all likelihood no one here familiars for confirm but what is your excellent guesses at when to begin purchasing solid-state drives again? What were pre-flood costs for budget 64 GB drives? And are they anywhere close that step again now? What is my excellent bet for waiting vs buying now?

AFAIK they have just gone up marginally. They have never really broken which is the threshold most individual begin to consider assuming the plunge. NAND flash was not affected through the floods to closely the similar elaborated as the HDD factories. Given the higher prices of HDD it really creates the SSDs more attractive economically. IIRC nice 60-64GB SSD were going depending on type early the flood, not too different to now.

Never actually moved did they? Only sort of stood out of the way when the HDD cost arrived shooting out of the floor... there are surely likely sized Gen3 drives for the similar cost now as the Gen2 drives were early the floods. The M4's went up a touch, but i imagine that was more to do with each bugger needed one, commonly sold out in 128GB. sandforce drives did nothing.

A firmware inform is out following week. At least Crucial acknowledged the trouble previous week and is acquiring out a fix as soon a potential. Since the M4 was just freed in April,5200 hours more or less means drives affected have been on fairly much 24/7 since that time. Its difficult to say whether it is before drives which have been struck just though. The Intel 510 utilizes perfectly the similar controller and has consequences with sure laptops similar to the MacBook Pro.

Few of the Kingston drives have information corruption consequences, which leaves the fresh+unproven Samsung. The M4 issue is minor equated to others and is no reason to avoid purchasing one now, there is no way you will hit 5k hours through the time the patch is programmed.

Solid-state drives do look to have crept up in cost quite a bit IMO. The technology should be acquiring affordable but rather costs are climbing, so effectively that is a double-whammy to costs. Have been looking for few for friends and many of the nice ones for 120GB. We were nearly there 6 months before but just we are heading in the against direction!