If you’re in the market for anything that uses flash memory–USB thumb drives, memory cards, SSDs–this is a good time to buy. Toshiba is cutting its production by 30%, citing oversupply in the market.
So right now, supply is higher than demand, so prices are low. That would explain why we’re seeing SSD prices below $1 per GB now, rather than later in the year. Some drives are priced well below $1 per gigabyte. Flash drives and memory cards are cheaper still–not quite 50 cents per GB, but close.
I’m in the market for one or two 32 GB SDHC cards. I guess that means the time to buy is now.
David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.