SSDs to hit new price lows this holiday season?

Darius Chang | Jun 01, 2009

From an exorbitant S$1,000 (US$710.43) for 32GB of storage just a couple of years ago, SSDs have become more pocket-friendly with some online vendors selling 64GB units for under S$300 (US$213.13). However, Taiwanese manufacturer JMicron intends to unveil its latest flash controller and 32nm NAND flash at the Taipei Computex show this week that could cut SSD prices by half.

Due to the inherent differences between solid-state storage (pictured) and traditional magnetic platter, controllers and certain operating system functions optimized for the latter have resulted in poor performance for SSDs. The new JMF612 flash controller not only addresses this issue, but is also quicker and cheaper to manufacture. Combined with a higher flash density made possible by 32nm manufacturing technology, JMicron expects the prices of its new generation of SSDs to reduce the current market rate by half this holiday season.

Via DailyTech

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