There hasn't been another die shrink from IMFT (Intel/Micron Flash Technologies) yet. They dropped prices around 60% last year when moving from 50nm to 34nm, and the move down to 25nm will not occur until later this year. It will also require an updated controller.
> -----Original Message----- > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Scoobydo > Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010 6:01 AM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] Greg what do you think of this SSD? > > Anand doesn't expect the price to drop significantly this year. Even with the > recent die shrink from Intel/Micron and Samsung they haven't passed along > the savings to consumers yet. Next year we can expect the prices to finally > start to fall more and within 5 years the mechanical hardrive will be on it's > way out. Seagate is coming out with a 3 Gig drive this year.. > >
