The difference in price between the SSD and the HDD will soon disappear
In the next few years, solid-state drives (SSD) achieved price parity with the hard disk drive (HDD), due to the rapid decline in prices for flash memory chips. The opinion was expressed by a representative of Samsung Semiconductor in an interview with the source.
Samsung said in this area is to trust to the extent that the company is not the first year, retains the title of the world’s largest manufacturer of flash memory. In the past five years these products price lowered 40-50-60% annually. When saving rate per unit cost of storage for flash memory and magnetic disks equals in the coming years.
While it is the price remains the main obstacle to the widespread dissemination of SSD. In areas such as performance, reliability, power consumption, size, noise and heat are obvious advantages over HDD.
Special pricing conducting line between SSD and HDD, is that in the price of HDD high proportion constant component associated with the components of which are independent of the volume and price of SSD increases linearly with increasing volume.
