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SSD Vendors to Drop Prices to Force Out Smaller Competitors?

SSD Vendors to Drop Prices to Force Out Smaller Competitors?

Posted April 25, 2012 at 5:38pm by iClarified
Major SSD vendors are initiating price reductions in an attempt to squeeze out their smaller competitors, according to a DigiTimes report. These vendors are said to include Kingston Technology, Intel, OCZ and Crucial. The price drops also reflect the falling prices for NAND flash chips.

A number of channel retailers, which usually sell commodity memory products including flash drives and memory cards, recently began to offer SSDs, the sources observed. Some of the leading SSD producers are concerned about inferior products that might disrupt development of the market, and therefore have resorted to price-cutting measures to force the retailers to leave the market, the sources indicated.

It's also thought that the price drops on SATA3 drives would speed the industry's transition to the faster interface. SATA3 SSDs are now only $10 US higher than SATA2 SSDs, according to DigiTimes sources.


The lower pricing is expected to bring 128GB and 256GB SSD drives into the mainstream.

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George
George - April 26, 2012 at 5:11am
Apple still doesn't natively support third party SSD (trim support), so go ahead and upgrade like I did, and enjoy the major lag every 20 minutes.
James
James - April 25, 2012 at 9:36pm
I will totally buy one now!
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