Most people admit that the biggest obstacle to the current popularity of SSDs is price. Buying a SSD with a capacity of only several tens of gigabytes at a price that surpasses the price of a 1TB hard drive is unacceptable for most buyers. However, everyone also believes that the decline in SSD prices is only a matter of time. A few days ago Micron's entry-level SSD has reported a new low price, reaching 1 US dollar 1GB.
In the online sales site of Micron’s Crucial brand, there are limited sales of two Crucial M225 SSDs. Although these hard drives are labeled as "Refurb", the official refurbished version (customers buy returns within 30 days), non-new products, but the price is still quite compelling, 128GB version is 128 US dollars, 256GB version of 256 US dollars.
Currently, the prices of other SSDs on the market are basically around 2 to 3 US dollars per GB, which is a huge gap from the level of less than 0.5 yuan per GB for traditional hard disks. Although this offer of Micron is only a short-term behavior, it also represents the trend of the SSD market. When the mainstream product price drops to 1 US dollar 1GB, that is, 80GB version 500 to 600 yuan, I believe that SSD will usher in the first wave of popularity The tide.