Lower priced SSDs may be just around the corner
If you're not rocking a solid state drive in your system, there's a good chance the cost of entry is what's preventing an upgrade. Even after the various price drops in the past year or so -- SSDs are easily found for less than $0.50 per gigabyte these days -- they're still relatively expensive next to mechanical hard drives. Well, guess what? Word on the web is that SSD makers are preparing an aggressive price war.

News and rumor site Digitimes says it's hearing from "industry sources" that major suppliers such as Micron, Intel, Kingston, SanDisk, and Samsung are looking to outgun one another. With so many big players involved, Digitimes says "fierce price competition" will be the result.

The wheels are supposedly already in motion. For example, Micron is said to have reduced sales of its NAND flash chips to other companies in order to support its own brand Crucial SSDs with a goal to double SSD shipments sequentially. Kingston, meanwhile, bumped up its SSD shipments to 600,000 units a month and is competing with SanDisk and Samsung for the top spot in terms of volume.

yep. biggest issue is the cost. the speed is drastically high compared to hdd

Well SSD still expensive for now. If the price dramatically down, it will be so nice

I think a revolution in the SSD field should happen, in terms of pricing and capacity, its time to move on, the HDDs are the bottlenecks of computing power these days, CPUs, Rams etc are getting way faster than before while HDD speeds are stagnant which is really unproductive and wastes a lot of time, and this has to change sooner than later. hopefully we can move to SSDs for ALL storage purposes and ditch the old HDDs for good soon.