{"id":23149,"date":"2016-03-06T04:50:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T12:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/the-gap-between-ssd-and-hard-disk-prices-is-shrinking-rapidly"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:07:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:07:40","slug":"the-gap-between-ssd-and-hard-disk-prices-is-shrinking-rapidly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/the-gap-between-ssd-and-hard-disk-prices-is-shrinking-rapidly","title":{"rendered":"The gap between SSD and hard disk prices is shrinking rapidly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-gap-between-ssd-and-hard-disk-prices-is-shrinking-rapidly.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The price of SSDs is continuing to drop, and they\u2019re becoming an ever-more tempting proposition compared to traditional spinning disks, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>DRAMeXchange, which is a division of analyst firm TrendForce, produces a quarterly report detailing the prices PC vendors pay for SSDs, and it showed that both MLC-based and TLC-based SSDs dropped considerably in price.<\/p>\n<p>MLC-based drives dropped by around 10 to 12%, and TLC-based SSD prices sank by 7 to 12% in the first quarter of 2016.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/computing-components\/storage\/the-gap-between-ssd-and-hard-disk-prices-is-shrinking-rapidly-1316257?utm_content=bufferce78c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=buffer-trfb\">http:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/computing-components\/storage\/t...uffer-trfb<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of SSDs is continuing to drop, and they\u2019re becoming an ever-more tempting proposition compared to traditional spinning disks, according to a new report. DRAMeXchange, which is a division of analyst firm TrendForce, produces a quarterly report detailing the prices PC vendors pay for SSDs, and it showed that both MLC-based and TLC-based SSDs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68132,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23149\/revisions\/68132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}