Intel Says SSD Sales Are Not Picking Up Yet
Common sense suggests that SSDs should have a great opportunity to reach more buyers once the current HDD shortage reaches through to the consumer with full force.
So far, however, there is not much acceleration to notice in the SSD market, says Intel. Intel's Stacy Smith stated that there has not been a "big uptake" yet, even if he expects that to happen eventually.
At this point it appears as Intel is pinning its SSD hopes much more on ultrabooks, which will have a form factor that will favor SSDs over hard drives, as long as hard drive vendors won't come up with thinner hard drives that would fit nicely inside thin designs. If ultrabooks have as much opportunity as Intel claims, it is rather unlikely that HDD vendors will not take a shot at that market as well, once the supply situation has recovered.
TechEye reported that SSDs are getting cheaper while HDD prices climb. At least in European outlets, 70 percent of the 50 most popular SSDs saw their prices drop in October and November.
Today, with the same budget for PC storage, the cheapest per GB SSD solution I can get for is a 300 GB Intel 320 (SATA II). Where am I going to put my torrents though?
A 512GB SSD should be between $200 to $300, or even a little lower. Once SSDs start getting into that price point, then sales will greatly increase. I would be willing to buy three or four, to add to my two current drives.
These companies are abusing this supposed hard drive "shortage" to try and push a far more expensive technology. It isn't working.
This is like my 7 yrs old telling me that "I will get no. 1 in school as long as all my friends didn't study at all".
I think Intel needs to be more realistic. Reduce SSD price plese..........
The higher quantities sold would out-way the price reduction and not only would they be profitable, but they would control the market!
Also there no SSD"s in retail stores last time i checked CompUSA(tigerdirect) they had 3 drives that wore over 1 years old and crazy price compared to website.
You really have no idea what you're talking about....
Is this even possible? The cost of NAND flash along would make such pricing impossible, at least assuming Intel doesn't actually want to lose money on each SSD. NAND flash is much more expensive than magnetic disks, so I'm afraid some of y'all are asking Intel to do something (lose money on each purchase) that isn't realistic. Anand had a write-up on this not long ago.
I went for a 128 GB (or 120 GB) Crucial m4 in my XPS 17 laptop alongside a 750 GB traditional HDD. I love it. The m4 was something like $210, though I could have picked up a OCZ or Corsair 128 GB drive for much cheaper on some of the Black Friday sales. Regardless, I'll say what most other people who have made the switch to SDD say -- I cannot imagine going back to an all-HDD system. It's unbelievable how much more response an SSD makes the computing experience.
My point exactly
I actually run the Intel 320 and now that they've fixed the firmware it's an excellent drive. The Crucial M4 is still the best drive on the market right now.