This is, of course, great news for manufacturers and enthusiasts alike. It has never been in doubt that SSD’s outperform their mechanically spinning counterparts. However, the price-to-performance ratio has put solid state drives out of the reach of many. That trend looks to be ending.
A year’s worth of data crunched by Tech Report’s Geoff Gasior shows that intense competition in the SSD market between Intel, Samsung, Corsair and OCZ has driven prices down by quite a bit. The report shows an average price drop across the four manufacturers of 46% from launch price over the time frame of about a year. That sort of discounting is unprecedented in the SSD market. That data places no less than eight drives on the market today with a dollar-to-gigabyte ratio of less than one — a threshold that many of us have been waiting to see broken.