Although things may not seem that way at the moment, we’re still hoping that the statement by a representative of one of the largest memory manufacturers in the world, saying that SSD prices will drop down to 1€/GB by the end of the year, will come true in the end. Even if that doesn’t happen, it’s clear that the industry is moving in that direction, and that the moment where the majority of users would have an SSD in their PCs isn’t that far away. Another thing that speaks in favour of such prospects is Intel’s Z-68 chipsets, which openly promotes SSD as one of the best ways to speed up your system.
All this has a secondary consequence as well, which is the growing number of manufacturers themselves joining the race. Those who started first, such as Intel, Kingston and OCZ, have provided a significant advantage for themselves. A fresh example thereof is Western Digital, who, despite presenting the fantastic SiliconEdge SSD, and due to the fact that they don’t have run-in assembly lines and the ability to manufacture in large quantities, struggle to make their prices competitive, which leaves their products at the (lacking) mercy of the aforementioned sharks who don’t suffer from all the mentioned problems, having produced SSDs for a number of years now. The happy few have recently been joined by Verbatim as well, and their latest has come in together with one of OCZ’s newer models - Agility 3.
