Low-priced SSD of around 10,000 yen achieves sales volume exceeding expected, market size will expand in the future

SSD "OCZ Onyx" cuts down 10,000 yenAnd it is sold at about 12,000 yenIntel's "X25-V Value SATA SSD"Although SSD which pushed the low price which can be easily obtained easily instead of pursuing the capacity and transfer speed as high-end model has begun to appear in earnest this year, it is beginning to appear in full swing, but with sales exceeding manufacturer's expectation It became clear that there was.

The fact that it is strong sales means that the possibility that better products will be offered at a lower price by full-scale competition by participating SSD manufacturers in the future is also fully considered, It may be good news for you.

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Intel, Kingston make headways with low-priced SSDs

According to this article, Kingston, a flash memory product dealer, released an early version of this year's inexpensive SSD with a selling price of about 100 dollars (about 9300 yen)SSDNow V Series 30 GB Boot Drive"It seems that it has realized sales exceeding the number expected by the company.

"SSDNow V Series 30 GB Boot Drive" is a 30 GB model SSD using Toshiba's flash memory manufactured in 43 nm process, the maximum reading speed is 180 MB per second and the maximum writing speed is 50 MB per second, but photos and music , It is intended not to be used as a drive to record data such as animation, but to use as a boot drive to preserve OS etc.

Although Kingston did not clarify the exact sales volume, market participants estimate that about 30 thousand units were sold, and Intel, the leading manufacturer, announced "X25-V Value SATA SSD, "and expects that the low-price SSD market will overheat in the future.

Considering that HDD keeps superiority in cost performance, we store only data that we read more than OS and so on into SSD, and rich content such as movies, music, photos, etc. are stored in HDD Although it seems that the method of preservation is not bad, from now on will it be mainstreaming low price SSD and HDD dual drive?

Apple'sWith the advent of iPad flash memory is in short supply, there is a possibility that the price of SSD will soarIn the meantime, for the time being, low-priced SSD and dual drive of HDD may be the most reasonable option in the meantime.