Price cuts continue occurs in domains SSD

THE manufacturer of SSD (solid state drive) to realize that SSD prices are currently still too expensive compared to HDD (hard disk drive).

Therefore, research firm iSuppli Corp. believes the SSD manufacturers will continue to cut prices to boost sales volume.

"The producers rely on the density of HDD capacity as the main attraction. In the meantime, more SSD makers play on price. However, this strategy SSD makers clearly need greater capital expenditure than the strategy pursued by the HDD manufacturers," said Analyst Storage Systems iSuppli Corp. Fang Zhang.

However, the research firm International Data Corp. (IDC) rate, cutting the price of SSDs will not be able to make the price comparable with the SSD HDD. Because IDC found that the price of HDD in the world fell about 25 % - 30 % per year. In the global market, HDD manufacturers do not openly cut product prices. However, in each year, consumers could buy a new HDD with a capacity greater but at a price equal to the old product, with a capacity smaller.

That way, the global sales volume will continue to grow higher HDD exceeds the SSD. iSuppli noted that in 2009 global sales volume fell 2.0 percent HDD to 549.5 million units due to hit from economic crisis. But in 2010, world economic conditions began to improve. Therefore, iSuppli estimates, the global HDD sales volume in 2010 will be increased dramatically by 22.8 percent to 674.5 million units.

On the income side, iSuppli added, the global HDD revenue in 2009 fell 11.7 percent to USD 23, 4 billion.