Today, in our opinion on the price of SSDs, some remarks. The first is that all stores do not know what a SSD, aka Solid State Drive. LDLC speaks of "SSD" and Topachat and critical "SSD." RueDuCommerce and Equipment. net clearly indicate "SSD" on their sites and Pixmania says "Solid State Drive" but some of the descriptions say "SSD." Recall that a SSD is not a disc ...
Second thing, beware of Vertex 2: the transition in 25 nm made by OCZ exchange capacity SSDs, which went from 120 GB to 115 GB for Vertex 2120 GB (sic) and from 60 to 55 GB for the Vertex 2 60GB (resic). If some (LDLC) announced well the actual capacity (115 GB), others do not provide information - and TopAchat Pixmania - and finally RueDuCommerce and Equipment.
net, give the value of 120 GB but indicate the reference for determining the actual capacity. A model in 34 nm 120 GB VTX120G a reference model and a 25 nm from 115 GB to the reference VTXE120G. It is therefore quite simple to make mistakes and it is unacceptable that a manufacturer such OCZ play this little game red card, then.
If the Crucial SSD C300 is a good and rare to be able to use the SATA 6 Gbit / s, it is the end of life. The recent decrease in price is linked to a simple fact: the production was stopped. The C400 Micron, which should be called M4 at Crucial, is slated for release in late March or early April.
In fact, SSDs which we follow prices in end of life and our next point on prices will be based therefore on a new sample. The Intel X25-M will be replaced by the 320 series, the Corsair by Fxx models SandForce 2000, Kingston by Kingston V + 100 V in 32 nm memory and Vertex 2 34 nm by 25 nm Vertex 2 and Vertex 3.
As shown, prices are falling and the SSD the most interesting one arrives at 1.5 € per GB The few models that still exceed € 2 per GB are either very low capacity, which affects the price because controller at a fixed price, either at the end of life. Finally, models with PCI-Express Internal RAID or decreased less significantly than others for the same reason that small building: only the price of memory decreases, not controllers.
The V + Kingston 512 GB is not in the chart for a good reason: None of our reseller panel does this. 
Second thing, beware of Vertex 2: the transition in 25 nm made by OCZ exchange capacity SSDs, which went from 120 GB to 115 GB for Vertex 2120 GB (sic) and from 60 to 55 GB for the Vertex 2 60GB (resic). If some (LDLC) announced well the actual capacity (115 GB), others do not provide information - and TopAchat Pixmania - and finally RueDuCommerce and Equipment.
net, give the value of 120 GB but indicate the reference for determining the actual capacity. A model in 34 nm 120 GB VTX120G a reference model and a 25 nm from 115 GB to the reference VTXE120G. It is therefore quite simple to make mistakes and it is unacceptable that a manufacturer such OCZ play this little game red card, then.
If the Crucial SSD C300 is a good and rare to be able to use the SATA 6 Gbit / s, it is the end of life. The recent decrease in price is linked to a simple fact: the production was stopped. The C400 Micron, which should be called M4 at Crucial, is slated for release in late March or early April.
In fact, SSDs which we follow prices in end of life and our next point on prices will be based therefore on a new sample. The Intel X25-M will be replaced by the 320 series, the Corsair by Fxx models SandForce 2000, Kingston by Kingston V + 100 V in 32 nm memory and Vertex 2 34 nm by 25 nm Vertex 2 and Vertex 3.
As shown, prices are falling and the SSD the most interesting one arrives at 1.5 € per GB The few models that still exceed € 2 per GB are either very low capacity, which affects the price because controller at a fixed price, either at the end of life. Finally, models with PCI-Express Internal RAID or decreased less significantly than others for the same reason that small building: only the price of memory decreases, not controllers.
The V + Kingston 512 GB is not in the chart for a good reason: None of our reseller panel does this.
- OCZ Vertex 3 Preview - AnandTech (10/03/2011)
- OCZ's consumer-grade Vertex 3 SSD gets benched, SandForce SF-2281 helps spank competition (27/02/2011)
- OCZ Launches Vertex 3 and Vertex 3 Pro SATA SSDs (24/02/2011)
- OCZ leaves memory module market to focus on SSDs (13/01/2011)
- New Intel SSD 510, OCZ Vertex 3 series take solid-state-drive performance to next level (02/03/2011)
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