According to the latest market report, an average contract price of OEM SSDs has dropped by over 10 percent for each consecutive quarter in the last year suggesting that a larger number of notebooks will be coming with SSDs.

According to a market report from DRAMeXchange, the average price of mainstream PC-Client OEM SSDs has dropped by over 10 percent in the last four quarters which will result in a greater percentage of notebooks featuring pre-installed SSD, with expected total of reaching over 30 percent of sales in the next year.

According to Alan Chan, Senior Manager at DRAMeXchange, we can expect that 256GB SSD will hit, or at least get close to the price of a 256GB HDD, which will result in a significant rise of notebooks with faster SSD storage.

The same report also suggests that NAND flash suppliers will maintain their aggerssive pricing strategy in the first half of the next year, with Samsung leading the competition and take advantage of its 3D NAND production facilities. According to earlier reports, Samsung currently holds 41 percent of the SSD market while Intel holds around 16 percent. Earlier, Western Digital has decided to acquire SanDisk and could become a big player on that market as well, together with Toshiba which has been a partner to Sandisk for over 15 years.

SSDs are slowly but steadily closing on HDD storage in terms of pricing and hopefully we will see it become a mainstream storage solution.



Source: Trendforce.com.