If you watched HDD prices soar after the Thailand floods and found yourself grumbling that SSDs should be cheaper, good news! Your wish has come true, at least to some degree. The hardworking souls over at
The Tech Report and
Camelegg have analyzed scads and scads of SSD price points over the past year and found that prices are down nearly 50 percent in that time frame, with several models now dropping below the vaunted $1/GB price point.
That's been sparked by competitive pricing wars between Crucial, OCZ, Corsair and Samsung, with a lot of the cuts coming from SSDs based around SandForce's super-popular controllers. The one stodgy holdout price-wise is Intel; various versions of its 520 series and 320 series SSDs cost more dollar-for-data -wise than any other SSDs on the market, with the 40GB 320 series SSD going for a whopping $2.31 per GB.
