Ballpark timeline for 320/512GB @ £150?

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Just curious how long people think it will take. The price seems to be dropping quite steeply now but i'm not sure how steep.

Sticking with an 80GB SSD and a big raid for other stuff but tempted to start thinking about the move.
 
256GB SSDs can be had for around £140 now.
My guess is that in 1 year, we shall see a 512GB SSD for around £150.
 
Is it safe to assume the prices will keep dropping?

Am happy with my 64GB M4, but it is filling up slowly and I will run out of space once the further BF3 DLC's come in as I only have 8.5GB spare, and this is not even including any further Windows updates, drivers etc.
 
The price wars are on. You can see that an 120GB Sandisk has dropped from 99 to 59 in under a few weeks.

Seriously it is pretty exciting, finally SSDs can merge into mainstream as they drop from an enthusiast product to something that's affordable.

I'm trying so hard not to buy one for my laptop, enough spending for this month!
 
Competition is what drives prices down. Should that exist on a manufacturer level, or retailer level does it matter? People will always buy the best value for money. Thankfully OcUK are in the position to offer that.
 
Ballpark timeline for 320/512GB @ £150?
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prediction:

Prices will continue to drop until 512GB is ~£200 and will then stick at that level for a few weeks/months. At this point you'll decide the price is now static and you might as well buy it since its only a little over your target price and having a 512GB SDD would be sooo good. Then a couple of weeks later the price will drop to £150.
 
Not quite clued up on that myself but essentially smaller process has less erase cycles than a larger one, i.e 50nm was 10000 cycles, 34nm was 5000 etc..
 
OIC.
So in otherwords, as companies miniaturise chips (moving to a smaller production process), to increase capacity, the longevity of the drive will suffer.

To that, my reply is: as technology progresses, new methods are found to improve on existing technologies. By today's standards, technology SSD tech will indeed run into problems, however, if and when the technology improves, new methods shall be found to maintain longevity and increase capacity.

This happens with almost every single piece of computer related tech - CPUs, video cards, RAM, etc.
 
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