Contrary to the current situation, the price of SSD could experience a sharp decline in the coming months.
A tendency to attribute to the fact that manufacturers have much more than necessary on their hands because the demand for this kind of product has not been there.
Massive stocks of SSDs to sell off urgently
While shortage is the key word for many components and the PC market is finally doing better than expected, SSDs seem to be in surplus. So much so that the analysis firm Trendfocus has estimated that their price could drop by half by mid-2023.
The many manufacturers in this category have indeed been overzealous and have produced SSDs en masse, without meeting the expected demand. So there would be such products gathering dust by the box on the shelves of manufacturers like Samsung, Western Digital, Crucial and so many others.
In order to dispose of these massive stocks, the most logical solution is therefore to lower the prices. It will therefore be interesting for those looking to boost the storage capacity of their machine to wait and see what happens in the coming months.
Conversely, next-gen SSDs with a PCIe Gen5 interface aren’t expected to see a price drop any time soon. Manufacturers are indeed keeping these high-end products under wraps for enthusiastic customers willing to pay top dollar. And this in order to offset the shortfall to come following the sale of entry-level or mid-range models at sacrificed prices to empty their shelves.
Source : trend focus
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