Not everyone needs the storage capacity of hard drives. What’s more, in many applications the use of a solid-state drive results in a considerable advantage over older magnetic disks. It is because of that the drop in prices of SSDs It is something that is always appreciated. What are the causes of it?
There is nothing that annoys us more than having to say SSD hard drive, which is a huge conceptual error for a very clear fact, a hard drive and an SSD, despite the fact that they serve the same purpose, store data, work differently. The problem is that the standardization of solid-state drives has been talked about for a long time. Why doesn’t it happen? Well, for a very simple fact, they are still below hard drives in storage, even below what is minimally necessary for the applications that use this type of device the most.
A massive price drop on SSDs is coming
Take for example the new Call of Duty Modern Warfare II, in order to install it we will need our computer to have 177 GB of available storage, this is more than 1/3 of what the vast majority of gaming laptops include as base storage. they are selling. That is why many games have not yet made the final leap from hard drive to SSD. And that this type of applications together with others related to the creation of content that benefit the most.
Obviously, the problem is the price of storage, however, as new equipment comes out that discards standard hard drives for SSDs, the price of these seems to be sliding down a slope without brakes. At least that is the case in the Chinese market, where For example, the 1 TB Samsung 980 has gone from 1400 yuan or 203 euros to 700 yuan or 101.5 euros.. That is, one 50% discount. The price of such a unit in our country? Currently, it is above €150. So this means that we could see a drop in the price of SSDs in general also in the West and in return in our country.
In any case, it must be taken into account that the situation in each part of the world is different, especially due to the issue of taxes on products and distribution costs. In any case, a massive price drop in SSDs is always welcome for those of us who want a new unit of this type in our computer.
What is the cause?
Apparently, the two years of the pandemic and the bottleneck in the distribution and production of new computers have meant that, as has happened with graphics cards, flash memory chips are now in excess inventory. All this would have led to a phenomenon where there is a supply, in volume, much higher than the current demand and, therefore, a price war would have entered from which we could benefit.
