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    Why small SSD isn't affected by "Price War"

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by baii, Apr 28, 2012.

  1. baii

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    One of the price marker of SSD : Crucial M4, cut it's price below $1/GB this week, but their 64GB remain >$1/GB. Various new gen Sandforce 60GB are well above $1/GB.

    My thought is for average user, HTPC/office machine/web browser , 60 GB is more than plenty. Why small drive price stand so hard ~~?
     
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    [Staples] Crucial M4 64GB $55+tax free shipping thats from 2 months ago I got it a few weeks ago so your not that far behind
     
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    The margins are smaller with those drives in the first place. You have the same controller and all other components; the only difference is fewer memory chips. So, it makes sense that the price decreases will be smaller in these drives.

    But yeah, as lebob23 posted, the prices are decreasing as well. You just have to catch the sales at the right time.
     
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    actually the crucial m4 has half the amount of ram cache as its larger counterparts 128 vs 256 and that is partially why it is 50 slower at writing...
     
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    256 = $200
    55x4= $220

    you are in effect paying for the other parts not just the memory chips think about it, if you were to buy 4 64GB's it would be 4X faster at reading and 2X faster writing.
     
    LakeShow89, Apr 29, 2012
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