The price of the ssd will rise 38% until 2018

Market analyst TRENDFOCUS has published on his blog that the prices of solid state storage disks (SSD) will continue to rise in price between now and 2018 due to the high demand for memory chips, he has also encrypted the rise in price by 38%.

The SSDs will not see their prices stabilized until 2018

Previously, prices were expected to stabilize during this 2017 but everything seems to indicate that things are going to be long and it will not be until 2018 when the price escalation stops, this situation may affect the popularity of SSDs as the main OEM will stop including them in their economic equipment. This will slow down the speed of replacing traditional mechanical disks (HDDs) with the more modern and much faster SSDs. The company also expects a rise in the price difference between the most popular SSD drives in SATA III format and its high-performance alternatives, the drives based on the PCI-Express interface, the price of the latter is expected to grow further..

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TRENDFOCUS expects that in the year 2018 there will be a stabilization of the prices of SSDs and it is even possible that these start to drop slightly, in recent years we have not stopped seeing the cost of SSDs drop but the high demand for memory chips NAND by smartphone manufacturers has caused availability to be greatly reduced and therefore prices are increasing. The most logical thing would be for manufacturers to increase production to improve availability but want to take advantage of the situation by increasing their profit margin, we all remember the famous case of floods from HDD factories in Thailand that kept prices up. elevated for longer than necessary, we will see how this story ends.

Source: techpowerup