The price of SSDs is expected to drop below $ 0.1 per gigabyte this year as their capacity increases.
We've seen SSD prices drop significantly in recent months while their capacity has increased. This has been achieved, in part, through the use of 96-layer QLC memory. DRAMeXchange , a NAND Flash memory market analyst, predicts a price war for solid-state drives this year. This will lead to a substantial and drastic reduction in the price of solid-state drives.
Analysts have pointed out that the 512GB and 1TB capacity SSDs will see the price per GB drop below $ 0.1. As they have highlighted, the new 512GB SSD will replace below 128GB, as the most popular option. Who will be harmed by this change in the market, are the HDD. Low-end PCIe SSDs and SATA III SSDs will be the biggest winners. They estimate that the fall of HDDs on the market is really brutal. It is estimated that this year the adoption of SSDs during 2019 is between 60-65%.
The price of SSDs will fall noticeably
“According to the latest TrendForce research, the Q219 marks the sixth consecutive quarter of the average price decline for OEM PC-Client SSDs, with the average contract price for SATA SSDs sequentially dropping by 15- 26%, and 16-37% in SSDs with a PCIe interface.
Reasons for continued price decline in Q2 include: less boost in stock due to prudent positioning of OEM PCs, smartphones, server / data centers towards end-market sales and high inventory levels , leading to an oversupplied NAND flash market; price wars by major SSD vendors interested in getting stocks of the new 64/72 layer chips from their hands; and the price comparison effect as a result of Intel's 3D QLC SSDs.
The demand side will be helped by the traditional peak season and increased demand for storage of new Apple devices, possibly seeing an improvement in the third quarter. Additionally, many NAND Flash memory vendors are slowing down expansion plans and have declared production reductions to reduce supply. However, judging from the rather high inventories along this industry chain, TrendForce predicts that average contract prices for major SSD capabilities will likely continue to decline, albeit with a less steep slope.
