During its SSD Global Summit held earlier in South Korea, Samsung also shed a bit more information on SSD prices in the future, expecting a significant drop that should push SSDs closer to HDDs.

According to the slide from Samsung, the company expects 512GB SSD to cost the same as 1TB HDD by 2020, which is a price reduction of over 50 percent in 3 to 4 years.

This does not sound crazy considering that the price of 512GB SSDs went down by almost 70 percent since 2012, dropping from US $1.17 per GB to just 0.36 per GB. According to Samsung, 256GB should hit the same price level of 1TB HDD sometime next year.

The SSD market has been growing steadily and the recent market analysis suggest that it should grow by 33.24 percent by 2020. Samsung has reported an SSD sales growth of over 50 percent in the last few years and is expecting to ship 23 million units in 2018, which is a growth of over 200 percent in two years.

Samsung has introduced its next-generation M.2 PCIe SSDs, the MLC V-NAND Samsung 960 Pro and the TLC V-NAND Samsung 960 EVO, which should significantly increase its market share.

While SSDs will probably never reach the same price per GB as HDDs, the performance increase, lower power consumption, lack of moving parts and other pros, make them superior in every aspect except capacity.





Source: Custompcreview.com.