End of cheap flash drives?
Posted in random on 07/12/2009 02:59 am by novakyuA new report from iSuppli highlights the recent, very dramatic rebound in NAND flash prices, and suggests that this is bad news for SSD adoption in the cost-sensitive netbook market. But at least Samsung is smiling.
These are, I think, flash devices for permanent storage (as opposed to RAM), such as USB flash drives, SDHC (and microSDHC), and other memory cards.
Will this mean stabilization of prices on these memory devices and maybe possibly even increase? That’s what I want to know. I’ve been waiting for price of 32GB USB flash drives to come down (the largest one I currently own is 16GB), but this could mean I may need to wait a very long time …
Well, Ars Technica says that the market for flash suppliers is still in “awful weather” condition, so I can probably afford to wait longer—at least we don’t expect the prices to rise, it probably just won’t fall as quickly as it had in the past.