Samsung Predicts SSD Price Collisions as NVMe Takes Over

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With HDDs On The Ropes, Samsung Predicts SSD Price Collisions As NVMe Takes Over
HDDs have a serious pricing problem for low-capacity applications. The majority of notebook users don’t need more than 1TB of storage (most need much less), and the rise of the cloud continues to reduce the need for high-capacity local storage. SSDs don’t really have to beat HDDs on the price versus capacity front (and they probably never will); the price just needs to be “close enough” to become a viable HDD alternative. The popular 256GB SSD capacity is already close to the price of a 1TB HDD. Samsung predicts that the price of a 256GB SSD will sink beneath 1TB HDDs in mid-2017, and 512GB will follow in 2020.