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SSD Prices In A Free Fall
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As a data storage device, SSD is gaining the popularity of Windows users all over the world due to its fast read-write speed. This year, SSD prices continue to fall. If you haven't upgraded your hard drive to SSD, now it's your turn. This page will show you SSD price trend as well as how to perform disk upgrade.
As for consumer 2.5-inch SATA SSDs, their prices also have dropped as substantially, and some SSD prices plunge even further. Although m.2 and NVMe devices have historically been resistant to price decreases, now they are showing the same solid-state drive price trend.
To migrate Windows to SSD without reinstalling OS or upgrade disk to SSD, the best way is to use professional hard drive cloning software. Here, MiniTool Partition Wizard is strongly recommended since it offers you two features including Migrate OS to SSD/HD and Copy Disk. With this freeware, disk upgrade or system migration can be easily completed.
Today, buying an SSD is far more cost effective than it used to be even if you purchase a large SSD more than 1TB. This trend indicates that SSD prices will continue to fall or drop in the latter half of 2018. This is caused by competition in the market and oversupply of the NAND Flash memory chips used in the manufacture.
SSD prices fall in 2018-2019. The prices of NAND and DRAM have dropped to an all-time low in 2019, leading to cheaper SSDs and memory that you have never seen before. But now in 2020, this appears to end.
According to a report from DigiTimes, NAND flash prices will rise by up to 40% in 2020. This report mainly comes from memory chipmakers, presumably some biggest vendors including Samsung, Micron, etc.
If this is real, the prices of products based on NAND flash memory like SSDs can rise. The reasons for this may be the power outage at Samsung that leads to damage worth millions of dollars, or a simple supply-demand ratio, or an inefficient supply of materials used by NAND flash production.
TrendForce notes that the slowdown is especially pronounced on the consumer side, and that memory makers will shift to making enterprise memory. So server DRAM prices may not fall at all, or they could fall as much as 5% in the third quarter, the company predicts.
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The brains at TrendForce state that SSD prices may slump in Q1 of 2022, as there is still an oversupply of product. But prices could return to normal or increase in Q2 (which begins April 1st), as supply will more closely match demand.
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Knowing how to spot the signs of an imminent SSD failure, as well as understanding how to troubleshoot a malfunctioning SSD, can mark the difference between permanent data loss and a trouble-free recovery. Like any storage device, an NVMe SSD will eventually fail; the only variable is when. Unlike hard drives, SSDs can't send an audible warning that something may be going wrong. Yet, while the SSD may be dead, all is not necessarily lost.
SSD firmware is incredibly complex and many SSD failures tend to be a corner case -- a problem that occurs only outside of normal operating parameters. Fortunately, when a serious firmware problem reveals itself, most SSDs automatically fall into a fail-safe mode. "If the SSD can't guarantee the integrity of the data, generally the vendor implements an 'assert' or other failure mode where they take the namespace offline or put it in read-only mode to protect the host software from reading bad data," said Jonmichael Hands, senior strategic planner and product manager for Intel and a working group co-chair at NVM Express, the consortium responsible for the development of the NVMe specification.
Aaron Rakers, the Wells Fargo analyst, thinks enterprise storage buyers will start to prefer SSDs when prices fall to five times or less that of hard disk drives. They are cheaper to operate than disk drives, needing less power and cooling, and are much faster to access.
It is unwise to extrapolate too much but it is clear the general trend direction is that Enterprise SSD cost per terabyte is falling faster than nearline disk drive cost/TB. Our chart below shows the price premium for enterprise SSDs has dropped from 18x in the fourth 2017 quarter to 9x in the second 2019 quarter.
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The recent easing of tight supply for components has led to rising shipments for enterprise servers. Furthermore, ODMs for the most part have been able to sustain the momentum of data center build-out with the demand from ByteDance and the tenders issued by Chinese telecom companies. Nevertheless, the performance of the enterprise SSD market on the whole has been impacted by falling NAND Flash prices.
Moving into 4Q 2022, economic headwinds have compelled companies across most sectors to scale back equipment-related expenditure. Meanwhile, server OEMs have taken steps to rein in the rising inventory, so the momentum of their procurement activities have slowed down noticeably. Looking specifically at China, a turnaround in its demand situation is not expected to occur in the near future as there will not be another wave of server-related tenders coming forth. With supply glut rapidly worsening across the whole NAND Flash market, the overall average contract price (or the ASP) of enterprise SSDs is projected to fall by more than 20% QoQ for 4Q 2022. This, in turn, will also lead to a QoQ decline of more than 20% in enterprise SSD revenue.
At 1.2TB the NVMe DC P3520 is less expensive than the SATA version. On a cost per GB basis, the 2TB DC P3520 is slightly less expensive than the 1.6TB SATA version. Price inversion is already taking place (prices checked on 2 October 2016.)
If you want proof, you can already see select examples of NVMe SSDs pricing falling below SATA SSDs (we linked a few retail examples above.) From what we have heard, this is going to happen more often and by the end of Q4 2016 and early into the first half of 2017 we are going to see enterprise NVMe U.2 SSDs enter the market a lower cost per GB than their SATA counterparts. 2ff7e9595c
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