February 22nd 2008 10:24 pm
Samsung Planning on 256GB SSDs, Huge Price Drops by End of the Year [Hard Drives]
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I told you SSDs would be plummeting in price this year, and here’s Samsung coming along making me look like some sort of genius for finding an article that said that and then writing about it. I rule! Anyhow, Samsung is looking to double the size of its SSDs not once this year, but twice, ending up with a 256GB SSD by year’s end. Samsung already has a 128GB drive on deck for the third quarter of this year, doubling the size of the drives we’re seeing in pricey laptops like the SSD flavor of the M. In any case, the good news is that SSD prices are expected to drop 35% to 45% yearly. As far as I’m concerned, it’s fine that Samsung is playing around with big, expensive, inefficient SSDs as long as it’s also working on smaller, faster, cheaper versions that, you know, people would actually buy. No one is clamoring for a 256GB iPhone, after all. We’re not that greedy. |
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