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The Tech Report: News —
... 12:00 AM on March 16, 2009 Monday Samsung: Solid state will match hard drive price Tweak.dk reports Muskin releases its first SSD series called ...
Samsung expects SSDs to match HDD prices
Fudzilla —
... the other hand, SSD components are actually priced lower, but the production costs scale with capacity as getting more GBs means using more flash memory chips, in turn upping production cost. While there is pressure on SSD manufacturers to match HDD pricing, Mr. Beard also added how flash memory prices have dropped to the point where chipmakers can t make money, and since many reported hefty Q4 losses, you shouldn t be expecting to see significant SSD price drops this year. More here
Samsung: SSD to reach price parity with HDD within next few years
DV Hardware —
... Brian Beard, flash marketing manager for Samsung Semiconductor, told CNET in a phone interview that solid state disks are expected to reach price parity on a dollar-per-gigabyte basis with hard disk drives in the next few years. ...
Samsung: Solid-State Will Match Hard Drive Prices in a Few Years Time
techPowerUp! —
... In his talk with CNET, Beard also tries to explain why SSD technology is currently more expensive than hard drive technology. If you are interested, you can read the full interview here. ...
Samsung Predicts HDD-Priced SSDs
Maximum PC —
... "Flash memory in the last five years has come down 40, 50, 60 percent per year," said Brian Beard, flash marketing manageing for Samsung Semiconductor, in a phone interview with CNet. "Flash on a dollar-per-gigabyte basis will reach price parity, at some point, with hard disk drives in the next few years." ...
Samsung: Solid-state, mechanical storage will reach price parity
The Tech Report: News —
... 10:58 AM on March 16, 2009 Will solid-state drives ever become as cheap as mechanical hard drives or will hard drives always have a pricing advantage? Samsung, the world's biggest flash memory maker, believes the formeralthough CNet News says the company didn't reveal a precise time frame for the event. Samsung merely expects the two mediums to reach price parity "within the next few years." That's not such an outlandish prediction considering how flash memory prices have declined in recent years, of course. In September 2007, for example, we ...
Samsung expects SSDs and HDDs to reach price parity
TechSpot —
Solid state drives have come a long way since its early days and it looks increasingly likely that they're going to see strong adoption in notebook PCs and elsewhere in the relatively near future. One disadvantage over mechanical disks, however, is that they are significantly more expensive and most users are of course reluctant to give up cheap cost-per-gigabyte storage. But this won't remain for long, according to Samsung . The company reasons that while each technological leap in increasing the storage capacity of traditional HDDs does not add significantly to the total ...
Solid State Drives to Match Hard Disk Drives' Pricing in the Next Few Years - Samsung
X-bit labs —
... of hard disk drives (HDDs), said in an interview that in the following few years solid state drives (SSDs) will match the price of traditional hard drives in terms of cost-per-gigabyte. Flash memory in the last five years has come down 40, 50, 60 percent per year. Flash on a dollar-per-gigabyte basis will reach price parity, at some point, with hard disk drives in the next few years, said Brian Beard, flash marketing manager for Samsung Semiconductor, in an interview with Cnet News.com . Solid state drives provide a number of benefits compared to traditional hard disk drives, ...
