If you want cheap SSDs buy sooner rather than later!

JimboJet said:
How many people are poised to make the jump to SSD but are just waiting on a truely worthwhile drive size to come into a "reachable" price point? I earn half decent money, but why would I shell out £180 for 256gb for a few minutes time saving per week right now? I'll buy a 256Gb drive when they hit £125. Anything smaller is barely worth the effort. I'm certain many people feel the same way.
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I agree there to a point, it is a loot of money for not a lot of space. But I have a 120GB drive with W7 and all my programs and a handful of games I play a lot, and it's still only 60% full. It's amazing how little space you need for just the programs themselves.

I do look forward to 1TB+ SSDs to being sub £250 and the norm for all PCs :)
 
JimboJet said:
Cutting production seems like an arse about face type of move... Surely price dictates demand to some degree. Tech is tech and almost exclusively, the cost of tech to the consumer drops over time. Continue to offer price drops and you'll sell more product. This stinks of price fixing to some degree. If the big names Toshiba and Samsung are cutting production to increase margins then surely the other companies will follow suit.

In any case yet again the consumer looses. Capitalism sucks, I just wish there was a decent alternative.

<edit> How many people are poised to make the jump to SSD but are just waiting on a truely worthwhile drive size to come into a "reachable" price point? I earn half decent money, but why would I shell out £180 for 256gb for a few minutes time saving per week right now? I'll buy a 256Gb drive when they hit £125. Anything smaller is barely worth the effort. I'm certain many people feel the same way.
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I agree i wont buy 256gb until it reaches £100 and i wont let ssd makers or eretailers rip me off with the price rise. We should all stop buying ssds as a protest.
 
Yeah, seeing that the current 128GB SSD's aren't going to budge any time soon (all the epic deals are for 256GB now :(, which I don't need)........... think I am just going to hold off till prices have really dropped to say £50 for a 128GB sata 3 SSD (by Samsung or crucial).
 
I noticed when the floods hit Thailand eretailers put prices up on mechanical Drives but white goods companys where still selling at the same low prices.
 
Andrew Moore said:
Samsung and other NAND producers have all pretty much depleted stocks hence the drives already becoming a little more expensive in places or even out of stock. I have seen the new cost price for the 256GB Samsung 830 series for example for the month of August and the increase in cost to us is around 14.5%.
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But samsung make their own NAND - I believe they're the world's leading NAND producer - so why would their prices rise as a direct result? And since the prices of the Intel drives are coming down so much next month surely they should go down?
 
So, this thread has got us all talking about the SSD's......shame OcUK haven't come up with a deal to woo us all into buying them :p

Search continues !
 
Must admit I have a chuckle to myself when I read announcements like this thread and previously the hard drives. Due to the inflated prices of both ssd and hard drives i have refused to purchase either. Amazing how you can make do with what you have, 250Gb Sata 2 hard drive and a 64Gb Sata 3 SSD. I will make do until prices make sense.:)
 
I thought the same way Rolypolyman for 2 years lol then i jumped to the Sammy 830 series an i have to say it was the best upgrade ive ever done.
But each to there own i suppose.
 
Cagerty said:
Bought the Vertex 4 256gb for a Steam drive :D. Should complement the Sammy I have already nicely!
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Same I just bought one too, brilliant price. I'm upgrading big time next week with some nice new components is there not a sale section where I can find buyers for my old stuff here? I've got loads of nice goodies for sale.
 
Compare prices to 4 months ago, SSD is very reasonable. Memory prices are very volatile, the DDR prices got very nice then shot up some years back. I think this warning is a reasonable heads up

I imagine its related to price of Sterling also, right now the markets love our debt and maybe there is some Olympic effect as icing on the cake but I expect similar gloom to 2008 as a sequel and it'll probably not favour our little islands purchasing power


But samsung make their own NAND - I believe they're the world's leading NAND producer - so why would their prices rise as a direct result? And since the prices of the Intel drives are coming down so much next month surely they should go down?
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Its a market, if toshiba cuts supply and demand stays as high then Samsung could do similar or raise prices. In a fluid market its very normal to go up and down, moores law might be true in long term but thats a 2 year rule and do you want to wait 2 years to buy a SSD cheaper then now. That is a possible scenario especially if oversupply is a reality
 
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Rumour and word on the street is that purchase of OCZ by Seagate for $1Billion has been completed so that could mean that the prices of SSD's could be on the way up.

It's not official so don't shoot the messenger if I'm wrong... (hope I'm correct as I'm holding a few shares)

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