SSD prices falling.

lomez · 23 Feb 2012 at 04:08

So it seems like something is happening rather quickly on the price front, in the last week ive seen some very low prices on ssd's.

Do you think this will be ongoing trend till the market levels out?

Could it be that a new generation of ssd's is soon to hit the shelves?

seeing 64gb m4's under 70 quid now so what do you think the basement prices will fall too if they continue this rate of price drop?.

Hyburnate · 23 Feb 2012 at 09:07

Under 80 quid but still amazing. Yeah they are slowly falling.

Neill_J · 23 Feb 2012 at 11:20

mmm getting tempted

Hyburnate · 23 Feb 2012 at 11:21

And me. I have 2 HDDs full. Could do with a faster start up.

Atom · 23 Feb 2012 at 11:48

Have seen the 60gb OCZ Petrol for 59.99 delivered!!!

Rhyswh · 23 Feb 2012 at 12:12

I hope so!!! I'm getting one either way but the cheaper the better!!

Deception · 23 Feb 2012 at 12:16

Might have to get another, as they're looking pretty tempting!

Surveyor · 23 Feb 2012 at 12:37

Atom said:
Have seen the 60gb OCZ Petrol for...

It's a shame they're poor compared to other SSD's.

Anyone experienced a OCZ Petrol?

lomez · 23 Feb 2012 at 13:10

Hyburnate said:
Under 80 quid but still amazing. Yeah they are slowly falling.

it wasnt a typo I saw one yesterday for under 70 mate

Atom · 23 Feb 2012 at 13:32

They are poor compared to other SSDs but they are a improvement over a spinner if money is tight or to upgrade a older rig..

darael · 23 Feb 2012 at 13:36

Once 128gb SSD drives are available for £100 or less, I'll become tempted at the most.

Uther · 23 Feb 2012 at 13:41

darael said:
Once 128gb SSD drives are available for £100 or less, I'll become tempted at the most.

Same for me. with HDD prices so high currently the price difference between the two is not so big anymore.

lomez · 23 Feb 2012 at 15:07

darael said:
Once 128gb SSD drives are available for £100 or less, I'll become tempted at the most.

not long to wait it seems agility3 are around the 105 mark for a 120 so fingers crossed

chaparral · 23 Feb 2012 at 19:01

darael said:
Once 128gb SSD drives are available for £100 or less, I'll become tempted at the most.

I Just priced up a Crucial M4 128GB SSD for about £102 for my HTPC....

(I No pay VAT

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durbs · 23 Feb 2012 at 22:01

Still rubbish prices though. Until they do TB ones for < £200 i'm not interested in a native SSD solution. Sticking to hybrids and caching until then.

FreeStream · 23 Feb 2012 at 22:10

durbs said:
Still rubbish prices though. Until they do TB ones for < £200 i'm not interested in a native SSD solution. Sticking to hybrids and caching until then.

It's not the full experience tho.

And what on earth do you access so regularly that needs a 1TB SSD!?

:confused:

I have the lightroom library files and previews of my 100k photo library and that's only 100GB...

durbs · 23 Feb 2012 at 22:35

Concorde Rules said:
And what on earth do you access so regularly that needs a 1TB SSD!?

I was surprised how quickly a new PC fills. When I built my new work rig and put work tools (VS.NET, Oracle, SQL, Adobe Suites, graphics tools and other dev packages) plus a few games on it, it was soon at 300GB.

Same with my Macbook, its partitioned into 250GB Win, 250GB OSX and both of those are pretty much full with various toolsets and assorted crud.

This makes even a 256GB SSD useless for me as I dont want to have to mess around keeping the OS on a small drive with most of the stuff I use daily on a standard HDD and life is too short to spend any time working out where to put a new app.

In this case hybrid or caching suits me better, obviously i'd much rather be running native SSD but the 512 and TB drives are ridiculous prices, 300% more than a hybrid drive for only a small % performance difference. So for me its a no brainer until the prices become realistic.

JasonM · 24 Feb 2012 at 01:32

HDD's are ultimately doomed it's just a matter of time. No different to how disks replaced magnetic tape that themselves once replaced punch cards.

Anyway not using disks as storage was predicted over 40 years ago. Dave Bowman is not removing HDD's here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px0c4Tgg6gg

OptimaLnrg · 24 Feb 2012 at 03:10

durbs said:
This makes even a 256GB SSD useless for me as I dont want to have to mess around keeping the OS on a small drive with most of the stuff I use daily on a standard HDD and life is too short to spend any time working out where to put a new app.

This too annoys the crap out of me. If I had a bigger bugdet I would slap two of the new intel 480gbs in raid and that would be plenty of storage for me.

Storage drives irritate me. I had to format and reinstall recently because I was installing my jdk and netbeans for uni to my storage drive, thinking I was being clever. Then WHAM. None of it works. Can't uninstall either because they can't be found. My module specific software installed fine when I pointed it to the jdk, but it wrote it's own files to the damn SSD anyway. DAMMIT RAGE.

Now I just install everything to the ssd and be done with it..

Stupid small ssds >:[ y u no bigger?!

pyropetepete · 24 Feb 2012 at 10:08

Just bought a Kingston SSD now 30GB, £36! BARGIN!!